Tag: Christianity

Why You Must Rethink Your Life Story In Light of the Gospel

Randolph Jason

Why You Must Rethink Your Life Story In Light of the Gospel by TREVIN WAX for The Gospel Coalition The gospel isn’t about us. It’s a message for us, yes, but it’s ultimately a royal announcement about Jesus. Even if you were never to have existed, the gospel would still be true. It is, as we saw in the previous column, “public truth.” And as the cosmic announcement of the crucified and risen Jesus as King, this message stands at the heart of the Scriptural Story of our world. Public Truth, Minimal Change…

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Chinese bishop sleeping on street after refusing to join communist schismatic group

Randolph Jason

Chinese bishop sleeping on street after refusing to join communist schismatic group By Lianne Laurence for Life Site News Msgr. Vincenzo Guo Xijin and an undisclosed number of priests from their curial house in Luojiang on the grounds that the building violated fire regulations. A Chinese Catholic bishop is homeless and sleeping on the doorstep of his former residence after he and the priests who work with him were evicted by communist authorities earlier this week, Asia News reported Thursday. Chinese authorities evicted Msgr. Vincenzo Guo Xijin, 61, and an undisclosed number…

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Trump Takes Steps to Protect the Right to Pray in Schools

Randolph Jason

Trump Takes Steps to Protect the Right to Pray in Schools By Melanie Arter  for CNS News President Donald Trump marked National Religious Freedom Day on Thursday by announcing steps his administration is taking to protect the First Amendment right to pray in schools. “This afternoon, we’re proudly announcing historic steps to protect the First Amendment right to pray in public schools.  So you have the right to pray, and that’s a very important and powerful right.  There’s nothing more important than that, I would say,” Trump said. He was joined…

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‘We Do Not Hate You’: Chinese Megachurch Issues Stunning Response to Government After Senior Pastor Jailed

Randolph Jason

‘We Do Not Hate You’: Chinese Megachurch Issues Stunning Response to Government After Senior Pastor Jailed By Will Maule for Faith Wire GNN Note – We are seeing more and more people demonstrate the power of the Holy Spirit and Jesus Christ working in their lives. Two incidents in the U.S. where family members were gunned down in cold blood while another family member forgave the criminal of his act of violence. Now this. When I see this type of situation continuing to grow it is more evidence that Christianity is…

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Xi’s China Ends 2019 With The Worst Religious Persecution In The Country’s History

Randolph Jason

Xi’s China Ends 2019 With The Worst Religious Persecution In The Country’s History By Helen Raleigh for The Federalist Increased religious persecution in China has failed to curtail the growing number of Christians, which has reached more than 100 million today — more than the 90 million members of the Chinese Communist Party. Dec. 30, 2019, was a day when people who live in the free world were busy planning ahead and getting ready for New Year’s Eve celebrations. But for China’s outspoken Wang Yi, the founding pastor of China’s most…

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PRAISE: 65,000 College Students Start 2020 Worshipping Jesus at Massive Passion Conference

Randolph Jason

PRAISE: 65,000 College Students Start 2020 Worshipping Jesus at Massive Passion Conference By CBN News GNN Note – We saw some of this on TBN and what little we caught looked absolutely amazing. Unfortunately, we a slightly over the age limit – well, maybe way over the age limit – to be able to attend, but we would love to attend because it looks like an amazing situation. It also provides more evidence the gospel church is growing while the secular based church is not. ****** By Steve Warren Two big Christian…

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Evangelist Julio Severo: Persecuted for Righteousness’ Sake

Randolph Jason

Evangelist Julio Severo: Persecuted for Righteousness’ Sake By Liberty Sentinel Staff  Evangelical writer and thinker Julio Severo, the father of many children, is an incredibly interesting and extremely courageous Christian who truly lives out his faith–even when it costs him, big time. After corresponding with him for over a year on all sorts of topics, we decided to interview him so our readers could learn more about his fascinating story. Following persecution in his home country of Brazil, Julio and his family fled the country to an undisclosed refuge in an…

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What Christians are For, What Christians Are Against (Podcast)

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What Christians are For, What Christians Are Against Podcast by John Stonestreet for Break Point An oft-repeated but, in my view, ultimately misguided self-critique by Christians, is that we are better known for what we are against than what we are for.  I fully agree with the spirit of the comment. As Chuck Colson liked to say, Christians should not just resist the bad stuff but always propose a better way. Today, however, that statement is too often used as a way of saying Christians should be more positive, as if Christians should…

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