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The charismatic movement – What is it? from Compelling Truth The modern charismatic movement finds its origin in the Azusa Street revival of 1906 in Los Angeles, California. During this time, people claimed to be baptized by the Spirit similar to what took place in Acts 2 in the New Testament. This included claims of speaking in tongues and divine miracles. This series of meetings continued to grow in strength and served as the beginning of the larger Pentecostal and charismatic movements in the United States and beyond. Until the…

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City Attorney Strikes Back at Atheists’ Demand for Removal of Christian Crosses By Billy Hallowell for Faith Wire An attorney for the town of Elizabethton, Tennessee, is defending the presence of three crosses on public land after atheists demanded their removal. The move comes weeks after residents protested the Freedom From Religion Foundation’s (FFRF) demand the crosses be taken down from atop Lynn Mountain. As Faithwire previously reported, the atheist group claimed the religious symbols’ presence on city-owned land is a violation of the First Amendment’s Establishment Clause. “They are crosses…

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Hungarian Evangelicals Thank God for Viktor Orbán Victory by Ken Chitwood for Christianity Today Despite some misgivings, most supported him as a conservative Christian who would stand up for their values. Szófia Boros voted for Victor Orbán. The young evangelical mother of two has her misgivings about the man who has been accused of undermining democracy—curtailing press freedom, undercutting the independent judiciary, and changing election rules to give an advantage to his political party, Fidesz. “Evangelical Christians support the majority of Orbán’s policies and positions, even if we don’t really admire…

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Jesus Was Forsaken So We Can Be Accepted BY William Boekestein for Core Christianity “Now from the sixth hour there was darkness over all the land until the ninth hour. And about the ninth hour Jesus cried out with a loud voice, saying, ‘Eli, Eli, lema sabachthani?’ that is, ‘My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?’ And some of the bystanders, hearing it, said, ‘This man is calling Elijah.’ And one of them at once ran and took a sponge, filled it with sour wine, and put it on a…

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‘No Medical Explanation’: Miracle Unfolds as Wheelchair-Bound Woman on Ventilator Raises Hand in Worship, Asks God for Healing By Billy Hallowell for Faith Wire “There is no medical explanation.” That’s what Father Karl Pung of Saint Mary Cathedral in Lansing, Michigan, said about a parishioner who spent nearly 13 years in a wheelchair. The woman, who was also on a ventilator after suffering for years with postural orthostatic tachycardia syndrome (POTS) and autonomic dysfunction, believes she was miraculously healed last month — and Pung agrees. In a video released by the…

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Cold-Case Investigator Shocked by Scientific Evidence Behind the Resurrection by Paul Strand/CBN News via Charisma News When atheists find evidence of Jesus’ Resurrection and become believers, you know there must be more than just faith that it happened. Two of the most famous former atheists came to a Truth for a New Generation conference outside of Greensboro, North Carolina, to talk about how they ended up strong defenders of the fact Christ really did rise from the dead. As a successful cold-case detective, J. Warner Wallace became so well known at…

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Mary’s suffering as Co-Redemptrix is intimately tied to her Motherhood of Christ and the Church by Michael Haynes for Life Site News Mary’s suffering at the foot of the cross is born out of the very nature of her maternity, as she stands underneath her Son, uniting herself in His passion and death, for the salvation of souls. As the hours pass on Good Friday afternoon, Christ’s painful journey to Calvary is complete. Nailed upon the cross, he looks down at the Woman, His mother, and in a penultimate act of…

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The Banner of Resurrection Sunday by Myra Kahn Adams for Town Hall News Flash: Rabbi Jonathan Cahn asked me to inform Townhall readers about his prophetic movie “The Harbingers of Things to Come.” Watch the trailer, and you’ll want to buy tickets for the May 12 one-night-only showing at theatres throughout the nation.  Author’s Note: Readers can find all previous volumes of this Bible series here.  The first 56 volumes are compiled into a book titled “Bible Study For Those Who Don’t Read The Bible.” “He is not here; he has risen” (Matthew 28:6). Thanks for joining…

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Substitutionary Atonement: Jesus Died for Us By MICHAEL BROWN for The Stream The prophet Isaiah said it so beautifully, hundreds of years before Jesus’ death: “We all, like sheep, have gone astray, each of us has turned to our own way; and the LORD has laid on him the iniquity of us all” (Isaiah 53:6). What a message! We sinned. He died. We deserved the punishment. He took it on Himself. That is the meaning of the cross. Christ Took Our Place As expressed by Peter, “He Himself bore our sins…

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