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The spiritual gift of faith — What is it? from Compelling Truth The list of spiritual gifts in 1 Corinthians 12:4-11 mentions, “to another faith by the same Spirit” (verse 9), including faith as a spiritual gift. Every Christian has faith, especially since we are saved by grace through faith in Jesus Christ (Ephesians 2:8-9), yet Scripture also says some have faith as a gift. What is this spiritual gift of faith? First Corinthians 12:9 does not specifically define the gift of faith. Jesus, however, mentions the importance of having…

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3 Facts That Totally Debunk Atheist and Secularist Arguments Against Faith and God By Billy Hallowell for Faith Wire Study after study seems to show the power, importance, and impact of authentic faith and church attendance. And yet there seems to be a deep and profound disconnect, especially as culture drifts further away from belief and deeper into a secularistic abyss. Meanwhile, depression, overdoses, suicides, and general disconnectedness rage on. The antidote appears to be before us, and yet, there’s an overt rejection of what holds us together: a belief in…

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Have We Seen the Last Shaking of America? – Jonathan Cahn for Charisma News New York Times bestselling author Jonathan Cahn’s bookThe Harbinger II: The Return revealed the ancient template behind the turbulent events that rocked the world in 2020 and which continue to shake the institutions, governmental structures and social norms Americans took for granted. Now, as America struggles to return back to what many consider “normal,” Cahn —author of The Harbinger, The Harbinger II—The Return, The Oracle, The Book of Mysteries and other critically acclaimed books—is set to…

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In These Uncertain Times, Are We the Underground Church of America? by BERT FARIAS for Charisma News What will you do in the floodplains when you can hardly make it in the land of peace? “If you have run with the footmen, and they have wearied you, then how can you contend with horses? And if in the land of peace in which you trusted, they wearied you, then how will you do in the thicket of the Jordan?” (Jer. 12:5). I fear that most churches in America have not prepared…

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“Business as Usual” Isn’t Going to Cut it Anymore! by Shane Idleman A friend of mine recently attended a large gathering of Christian leaders. When I mentioned how powerful it would be if they added times of prayer, fasting, and worship to the schedule, he responded, “That would be a game-changer. But many still have the ‘business-as-usual’ mentality.” This is not only true at Christian events, but also in our homes as well. One Thing is Needed What’s it going to take to draw us back to the heart of…

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What Is the Providence of God? BY William Boekestein for Core Christianity (27) Q. What do you understand by the providence of God? A. Providence is the almighty and ever present power of God by which God upholds, as with his hand, heaven and earth and all creatures,and so rules them that leaf and blade, rain and drought, fruitful and lean years, food and drink, health and sickness, prosperity and poverty—all things, in fact, come to us not by chancebut by his fatherly hand. (28) Q. How does the knowledge of God’s…

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Jesus Is Not a Brand by TYLER WIGG-STEVENSON for Christianity Today GNN Note – This is the counter argument against the “Jesus – biggest brand in your city” ad campaign. We agree – Jesus is not a brand, Jesus is the savior of the world, King of kings, Messiah. / END Why it is dangerous to make evangelism another form of marketing. For months after I first moved to Nashville, a billboard by the westbound I-40 advertised an alcohol addiction recovery program. But what caught my eye was the billboard’s…

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CRISIS in UKRAINE: What’s REALLY Going On Video by Remnant TV There’s a crisis in Ukraine, but who’s invading whom, exactly, and when did it actually start? As the bodies of heroic Ukrainians pile up, Michael J. Matt takes a hard look at how we got here. Here’s the timeline: Back in 2014, when Jen Psaki was a spokesperson for Hillary Clinton’s State Department, she was asked about plans for a secret U.S. coup d’état in Ukraine that had been leaked to the press. A year later, the Obama Administration…

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$100M Ad Campaign Aims to Make Jesus the ‘Biggest Brand in Your City’ by Maria Baer for Christianity Today “He Gets Us,” an effort to attract skeptics and cultural Christians, launches nationally this month. But Christians still have questions about how the church markets faith. If you haven’t seen the commercials yet, you will. This month, what is thought to be the biggest-ever Christian advertising campaign will go national. Television commercials, along with online ads and billboards, will target millennials and Gen Z with a carefully crafted, exhaustively researched, and market-tested message…

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