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Latest Articles: Religion
Joe Rigney, Bethlehem Seminary President, Ousted for ‘Divergence of Vision’
Post Date: 2023-04-04 21:14:28 by Charles_Byrd
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Joe Rigney, a controversial Twin Cities seminary president with ties to influential author John Piper and Idaho pastor Doug Wilson, resigned Monday (April 3), due to what the school’s board called a “divergence of vision.” Click for Full Text!
Ministries Making a Difference: Child Evangelism Fellowship, Option Line and more
Post Date: 2023-04-03 18:58:34 by Charles_Byrd
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Child Evangelism Fellowship (CEF) is offering trauma resources to children at The Covenant School in Nashville, Tennessee, after an armed woman broke into the school and killed six people last week, three of them children. Resources include CEF’s “Do You Wonder Why?” booklet. Child Evangelism Fellowship has one star and an “A” transparency grade in the MinistryWatch database, and a donor confidence score of 86. Click for Full Text!
Christian Faithful Mark Palm Sunday in Jerusalem
Post Date: 2023-04-02 22:39:21 by Charles_Byrd
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Thousands of Christian pilgrims participated in Palm Sunday celebrations in Jerusalem at the start of the Holy Week. Worshipers carried palm fronds and olive branches and marched from the top of the Mount of Olives to Jerusalem's historic Old City, home to holy sites of the three Abrahamic monotheistic faiths. Click for Full Text! Click for Full Text!
ABC’s Long-Running ‘The Ten Commandments’ Easter Tradition Continues in 2023
Post Date: 2023-04-02 21:57:32 by Charles_Byrd
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For the past half-century, nearly every year since 1973, around Easter and Passover ABC has rebroadcast Cecil B. DeMille’s Oscar-winning 1956 epic The Ten Commandments, which draws its story from the Old Testament book of Exodus about Moses’ (Charlton Heston) deliverance of the Israelites from slavery at the hands of Egyptian pharaoh Rameses II (Yul Brynner). That tradition continues in 2023. The Ten Commandments will air on ABC Saturday, April 1, 2023 (four days before Passover begins, and eight days before Easter), at 7pm ET/PT. Click for Full Text!
Carl Lentz, in First Staff Position Since Hillsong, Joins Transformation Church in Tulsa
Post Date: 2023-03-28 20:37:40 by Charles_Byrd
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Carl Lentz, the ousted pastor of Hillsong New York City, has landed on staff at Transformation Church, a predominantly Black, nondenominational megachurch in Tulsa, Oklahoma, that is led by pastor, author and popular YouTuber Michael Todd. Click for Full Text!
Meteorologist prays for Mississippi residents in path of tornado while on air: ‘Dear Jesus, please help them’
Post Date: 2023-03-27 21:34:44 by Charles_Byrd
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A local Mississippi meteorologist invoked the name of Jesus Christ live on air as he watched a deadly tornado approach the town of Amory, Mississippi Friday night. While reporting on the tornado’s trajectory and seeing it get close to the populated town, WTVA’s Matt Laubhan told viewers to get into their "Tornado safe place." Click for Full Text!
Judge Dismisses Lawsuit by 36 United Methodist Churches
Post Date: 2023-03-22 23:31:04 by Charles_Byrd
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A North Carolina Superior Court judge dismissed a lawsuit filed last year by 36 United Methodist churches demanding to sever their ties to the denomination. Click for Full Text!
Chalcedon: The Aftermath
Post Date: 2023-03-21 18:45:08 by Charles_Byrd
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Efforts were made to unify the two sides in the conflict in the latter half of the sixth century. We are no more than one hundred years after the council. Unity talks were held, documents of reconciliation drafted, non-Chalcedonian bishops were offered a diocese if they would switch sides. All came to naught. One emperor, Tiberius, refused to persecute the non-Chalcedonians. “Are those whom you ask me to persecute heathens?” “No,” came the reply from the patriarch, the one who was doing the asking. They were Christians, just not Christians in our camp. Click for Full Text!
Preaching the End Times Better (Part 3): The Parousia of Holy Communion
Post Date: 2023-03-15 18:35:59 by Charles_Byrd
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The assurance of Christ’s final Parousia should offer the faithful the greatest confidence that, despite the appearance of this wayward world, the returning Lord Jesus will redeem us, as well as the Earth itself, to the uttermost. For as He is, so we shall be (1 John 3:2). That means resurrection, but it also means our vindication for having trusted in the Lamb’s Word and person as judgment falls upon mockers of The Way (Galatians 6:7). Preaching the End Times better means preaching things will assuredly play-out not only just as Jesus said, but also that he is the abiding guarantor who leads us from the Incarnation, through Holy Communion, to the Final Parousia. The false ...
Preaching the End Times Better (Part 2): The Hermeneutics of Parousia
Post Date: 2023-03-15 18:32:07 by Charles_Byrd
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2Peter 3 proves a tour-de-force toward preaching the end times better. So far from being a locus classicus for the obliteration of the world, this epistle reinforces both the Lord’s justice in an assured judgment and, until that Final Day, mercy in forbearance. In other words, Saint Peter presents the End Times in clear categories of Law and Gospel as the outcome of Christological thinking. The former demands circumspection regarding a laissez faire disposition toward Christ’s final parousia with its righteous judgment and the latter drives those with ears to hear toward repentance and redeeming grace found in Christ alone. Either way, be it Law or Gospel, the person, word, and ...
Preaching the End Times Better (Part 1): 2 Peter 3 Disambiguation
Post Date: 2023-03-15 18:25:27 by Charles_Byrd
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2Peter 3 relates to four problems in sectors of contemporary thinking and preaching about the final parousia of Christ Jesus.[1] Click for Full Text!
Authenticating the Fourth Gospel (Part 2)
Post Date: 2023-03-15 18:12:32 by Charles_Byrd
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In part one of this article we looked at various temporal and geographical indicators referenced within the Fourth Gospel which served to corroborate the author’s claim that he really could have been an eyewitness of the life of Jesus. The Gospel of John does indeed bear the marks of an authentic early first century text written by someone with accurate knowledge of Jerusalem before it was completely destroyed by the Romans in 70 AD. But there is another test we can use to further establish John’s credibility, and that is by considering the names that appear throughout his Gospel. An Israeli scholar by the name of Tal Ilan compiled a database of ancient Palestinian Jewish ...
Sex as Sacred: What a Twitter Maelstrom Reveals About Us
Post Date: 2023-03-14 01:19:10 by Charles_Byrd
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Years ago, after a college chapel service that featured a sermon about God as Heavenly Father, the person sitting next to me turned and said bluntly, “If God is a Father, I want nothing to do with Him.” She was speaking from a place of deep, personal pain. However, even the worst experience with an earthly father does not change that God has revealed Himself, throughout Scripture and specifically in the words of Jesus, as our Father. I thought of my friend and that chapel service during last week’s Christian Twitter maelstrom. On Wednesday, the recently announced Keller Center for Cultural Apologetics at The Gospel Coalition published a book excerpt authored by Pastor Josh ...
Confessions of faith: Lynne Eby
Post Date: 2023-03-14 01:14:58 by Charles_Byrd
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Lynne Eby shares a lot of similarities with the apostle Paul. Lynne spent the first 35 years of her life hating and persecuting Christians. Today, she is a passionate believer with a mission to reach others and share the good news she has learned. Click for Full Text!
Digging Deeper into Scripture: Exodus 17:1–7
Post Date: 2023-03-10 01:35:59 by Charles_Byrd
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I have seen Star Wars too many times. Wait, is that possible? When I say I’ve seen Star Wars, I mean the original movie from May 1977, which started the whole franchise. I am dating myself a little here. I was five when I first saw it (technically four, I guess.) Here’s a trivia question. Remember that Luke Skywalker’s home world was Tatooine, a desert planet. Luke was raised by his uncle Owen and aunt Beru. What was the family’s occupation? If you guessed moisture farmers or something along those lines, you are correct. The people of Israel, as we encounter them in this weekend’s Old Testament reading from the Book of Exodus, could have used a moisture farm or two. ...
Why Canadian Businessman Peter Chung is a Key Player in the Future of The King’s College in NYC
Post Date: 2023-03-05 01:56:54 by Charles_Byrd
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So far, most of the coverage by mainstream news outlets of The King’s College’s financial woes has oddly focused on King’s past donors such as Bill Hwang, the DeVos family and interim president Stockwell Day. Click for Full Text!
FALSE PROFIT: Minister Says Christian Faith Supports Unrestricted Abortion
Post Date: 2023-02-28 19:46:52 by Charles_Byrd
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This pro-abort argument has never and will never work. Stop trying! Yet another abortion supporter has tried pretending that abortion is in line with the Bible’s teachings. He told his congregation that their faith is “way too small” if they don’t support expansive abortion access. Click for Full Text!
Loss of Religious Belief Is a Greater Loss for a Civilized Society
Post Date: 2023-02-27 16:17:06 by Charles_Byrd
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There has been a noticeable decline in the percentage of Americans identifying as religious. Some perceive this seismic shift as evidence of a secularizing culture. In some quarters, the secularization of America is viewed favorably as an agent of modernization. But researchers are theorizing that the erosion of religious beliefs portends negative consequences for society because religion cultivates meaningful social relationships by nurturing a sense of community. Religious institutions hone social capital by fostering a strong sense of brotherhood that transcends tribalism. Religions also make it easier for societies to scale up by diminishing tribalism and promoting cooperation. ...
THE THREE WORLDS OF EVANGELICALISM
Post Date: 2023-02-26 01:59:14 by Charles_Byrd
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American evangelicalism is deeply divided. Some evangelicals have embraced the secular turn toward social justice activism, particularly around race and immigration, accusing others of failing to reckon with the church’s racist past. Others charge evangelical elites with going “woke” and having failed their flocks. Some elites are denounced for abandoning historic Christian teachings on sexuality. Others face claims of hypocrisy for supporting the serial adulterer Donald Trump. Old alliances are dissolving. Former Southern Baptist agency head Russell Moore has left his denomination. Political pundit David French has become a fearsome critic of many religious ...
Effort Launched to Get Black Christians to “Affirm” LGBTQ+
Post Date: 2023-02-24 05:17:51 by Charles_Byrd
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LGBTQ+ advocates will meet on Friday at Union Theological Seminary in New York City to “engage” in an “historic conversation to advocate for change within the Black Church for the Black Queer Community.” In an article I penned yesterday for The New American, I explained how the progressive Left wants to infiltrate the Evangelical Christian community in the United States to advance their left-wing world view. This event at Union Theological Seminary is yet another attempt, this time to manipulate black Christians into what is essentially a Marxist cause. The one-day symposium, entitled “The State of the Black Church: Reconciling Communities and Reimagining ...
Revival Comes to Town
Post Date: 2023-02-24 01:03:44 by Charles_Byrd
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They say a revival has taken place in a small Kentucky town. On February 8th, students at Asbury University–a private Christian school in Wilmore, Kentucky, just outside Lexington–gathered for their weekly chapel service. The preacher for the day, Rev. Zach Meerkreebs, offered a message in which he prayed, “Lord, revive us with your love.” Immediately afterward, Meerkreebs texted his wife, saying that he didn’t think the sermon was very good. “Whiffed again,” he told her. As he took his seat, a song began to play. The students in the room sang and offered praise in response. But they didn’t stop. It just kept going. Click for Full Text!
Southern Baptists Plan to Hire Guidepost Solutions to Run Abuser Tracking Database
Post Date: 2023-02-22 19:05:02 by Charles_Byrd
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For years, Southern Baptist leaders told members of the nation’s largest Protestant denomination that setting up a database to track abusive pastors was impossible. Click for Full Text!
Southern Baptists Oust Rick Warren’s Saddleback Church for Naming a Female Pastor
Post Date: 2023-02-22 18:53:16 by Charles_Byrd
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Saddleback Church, the megachurch long led by Rick Warren, has been ousted from the Southern Baptist Convention for naming a woman to its pastoral team, against SBC teaching. Click for Full Text!
‘We Cannot Walk With you Unless You Repent,’ African Archbishops Tell Church of England
Post Date: 2023-02-21 03:11:08 by Charles_Byrd
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Conservative Anglican archbishops in Africa are challenging a decision by the Church of England to allow clergy to bless same sex couples’ marriages, warning that the move puts the worldwide Anglican Communion in further jeopardy. Click for Full Text!
Next Gen Leaders Urge Proactive Response to SBC Age Distribution Trends
Post Date: 2023-02-15 20:44:53 by Charles_Byrd
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Recent trends regarding age distribution in the SBC are causing next generation leaders to reflect on building up the future of the Convention. Click for Full Text!
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