Proof The Bible Is True

When Pope Francis met with Sheikh Ahmed al-Tayeb on Monday, he told him that “our meeting is the message.” So precisely what kind of “message” was Pope Francis attempting to convey? Sheikh Ahmed al-Tayeb is the Grand Imam of Cairo’s Al-Azhar Mosque, and some have described him as “the highest figure in Sunni Islam.” The Daily Mail said that the meeting between these two men was a “historic bid to reopen dialogue between the two churches,” and as you will see below, this is yet another in a long series of attempts by Pope Francis to build bridges between Catholicism [More]

If they hate Jesus, they’ll hate you—and they certainly hate Jesus. I’m talking about the American Left and its unyielding war on Christianity. And so is my good friend Matt Barber. In his fiery new book, Hating Jesus: The American Left’s War on Christianity, Barber reveals how secular progressives are waging an unrelenting fight against Christianity in America. Perhaps more importantly, he explains how Christians can fight back. “Just a few short decades ago, a church-going man who publicly supported the right to life, backed laws protecting marriage and spoke freely of Christ’s love for fallen man would be universally [More]

When was the last time you heard a sermon about hell? Just think about that for a moment. Once upon a time in America, preachers all across the land regularly unleashed fiery sermons that directly confronted people with the reality of heaven and hell. But today, that has completely changed. In fact, there are some very well-known ministers in this country that purposely avoid ever using the word “hell” because it might offend someone. It turns out that “happy church” can be a very lucrative business model, and many people seem to love the “me first” prosperity gospel that has [More]

I was recently interviewed on The Rebel Media (starting around the 24:12 mark of this video). The following introduction is from The Rebel Media’s “Cultural Wars with Tiffany Gabbay”: Christians are the MOST persecuted people on earth: These stories will SHOCK you You won’t  see much mainstream media coverage or liberal celebrities raising awareness of this tragedy like they did with Darfur. We’re talking about Christians, the most persecuted group in the world. The Middle East is the cradle of Christianity, yet ancient Christian communities spanning from Iraq, Syria, Libya and beyond have been decimated by genocide and displacement. Secretary of State John [More]

Author of “Frequency,” Robert Morris says God communicates in many ways, and he will discuss how we learn to hear the voice of God.  cbn.com

By Philip Irvin “Irrelevant: Not related to or influencing the matter at hand.” This seems like a good word to describe it. The Washington State Human Rights Commission enacted a transgender bathroom law. It is so extreme that I, as an anatomical male with a full beard, am entitled to shower with your 7-year-old daughter at…

A part of Christian eschatology is the conviction and belief that evil will intensify in the last days (Cullmann, “Eschatology and Mission in the New Testament,” Theology and the Christian Mission, 46). This began at the Day of Pentecost when the church was born and continues until today. There have been times of relative peace and times of the intense manifestation of evil, but there is little doubt in the minds of many that the situation in the world is not getting better. It seems especially intense at the moment. The good news of the kingdom preached by Jesus came [More]

Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, in a commencement speech to graduates of Hillsdale College, called for more action, more faith and more fights for freedom, asking them bluntly: If not you, then who? “I am of a different time,” he said, Mediaite reported. “Today there is much more focus on our rights as citizens and what…

“Duck Commander” Phil Robertson spoke with SiriusXM host Stephen K. Bannon on Breitbart News Daily on Wednesday, talking about Torchbearer, a forthcoming documentary on how America’s Founding Fathers understood that turning to God in obedient faith is essential to the United States—or any country—flourishing as a just, prosperous, and peaceful nation. Lamenting America’s turning its back on God and biblical truth, Robertson pronounced, “If you look around, the frustration you see coming out of America … is fundamentally being fueled because depravity has become mainstream. Murder is mainstream. We slaughter our own children. We prance around and parade our own [More]

“You can find his book on Amazon and other online book sellers.”  Admin Kenneth Bae has held the hand of God. The American Christian missionary — who spent over 700 days as a captive of the North Korean communist regime — says the Holy Spirit held his hand through an “interrogation” exercise. He saw “something sparkling like gold dust” before hearing the voice of God explain: “The Holy Spirit is holding your hand. You are not alone.” Bae’s new book, Not Forgotten, is a powerful and unique look at his time in North Korea, from his arrest over running a [More]

How does six-plus hours of Bible study on a Friday night sound to you? As someone who works at a ministry dedicated to serving persecuted Christians, the first time I heard of Secret Church, I assumed it was an underground church simulation. Maybe you’ve participated in something similar. You know – meeting in a “secret” location, under the cover of darkness, singing softly so “authorities” don’t hear, possibly getting “raided” by other church members dressed up in fatigues… that’s what I thought Secret Church was. And while those simulations are valuable to help us understand how Christians worshipped behind the [More]

Brother “Samuel” leads a media minibstry in Pakistan, reaching out to Muslims with the gospel of Christ. It isn’t always a popular message: Samuel has been threatened, his staff has been beaten and his office has been attacked. Charges under Pakistan’s blasphemy law are a constant threat. But God is at work! Muslims are accessing ministry resources and meeting Jesus Christ, the Son of God. Listen as Samuel shares the challenges of serving Christ in Pakistan—”anything can happen at any time”—and how he constantly re-commits himself and his family to the ministry that God has called them to, whatever the [More]

“I’m tired,” my son John complained, “And I have a bad headache.” “Have you had enough water to drink today?” I inquired. It’s my usual response, for I know (and my kids forget) that a lot of headaches and much of what feels like exhaustion comes from poor hydration. We don’t always feel thirsty; what we feel are the side effects of not having had enough fluids. As he went to get a glass of water, and then, surprised at how good that felt, drank another, I turned my attention back to reading my Psalms for the day. Next up [More]

My laptop ended up in the computer hospital this week. It’s never good when you tell your computer doctor what’s going on and he says, “I’ve never heard that before.” It sounds like such a simple thing to be without your computer for several days, but for someone who uses it for the family business and writes full-time, it’s major. I had to get creative to meet my obligations. My blog for Guideposts was due a few hours after my computer went haywire. As panic set in, I realized I could type the story in an email on my iPad mini. [More]

A U.S. missionary who was sentenced to fifteen years of hard labor in North Korea, and served in a labor camp for two years before ultimately being freed, is speaking out about his experience and how his missionary work was deemed a “threat” to the atheist government. “They (the prosecutors) said, ‘You attempted to overthrow the government through prayer and worship’ and they really took prayer as a weapon against them,” Kenneth Bae told CBS News this past week. “One of the prosecutors told me that I was the worst, most dangerous American criminal they had ever apprehended since the Korean War,” he recalled. [More]

Whether or not the United States is still a Christian nation has been debated by politicians and Christian leaders alike — from U.S. President Barack Obama to the Southern Baptists Convention’s (SBC) Dr. Russell Moore. “Whatever we once were, we’re no longer just a Christian nation,” Obama told CBN News while campaigning for the presidency in 2007. “We are also a Jewish nation, a Muslim nation, a Buddhist nation, a Hindu nation and a nation of nonbelievers.” Moore recently gave his own take on the issue, clarifying that the question can be asked and answered from two distinct standpoints. Read [More]

Semse Aydin’s husband, Necati, was one of three Christian men martyred for their faith and ministry in Turkey. The next day, on national TV in Turkey, Semse offered forgiveness to her husband’s killers, along with the widow of one of the other martyrs. Listen to VOM Radio this week as she shares how the Holy Spirit enabled her to forgive, and how God has sustained her and her two children since she gave Necati to Jesus. You’ll also hear how Necati dealt with family members who were still Muslims, and how he went to meet with his killers, even though [More]

One of the great privileges of my life is interviewing Christians who have faced persecution. To be able to sit down with these brothers and sisters, drink tea and simply ask questions to explore their faith and their relationship with Jesus is a source of great joy to me, as well as a spur to my own faith and walk with Christ. Recently I interviewed John Short, a Christian who was detained in North Korea after he left gospel tracts outside a Buddhist temple. In the course of our conversation, Mr. Short said something that I’ve never heard before, or [More]

When I joined a missions organization in 2003 intending to go overseas as a 24-year-old, people didn’t understand. They asked me why. They told me there were plenty of people who needed help in the U.S. They wanted to know why I was leaving my job at the newspaper. It didn’t make sense to them, because it wasn’t a safe choice. But I knew I’d been put on earth for a reason that was bigger than my own comfort. So I went. In those two years, I learned about sharing the gospel in front of a crowd or one-on-one. I [More]

When we say largest megachurches in the world, Americans are likely to immediately think of the Lakewood Church in Houston, Texas—which boasts of some 43,500 people attending its services weekly—or Potter’s House in Dallas. However, Leadership Network’s Warren Bird, an expert when it comes to the subject of megachurches, recently released a research showing that Christian churches with the largest attendance are not located in the United States but in Asia and Africa. In an article on the Leadership Network’s website, Bird named the Yoido Full Gospel Church in Seoul, South Korea as the most attended Christian church in the [More]

Although the sexual revolution is perverse to the core, one thing we can all learn from it is the incredible power of unity. Church leaders should take note of how the Human Rights Campaign – the leading organization in this revolution – simplifies its message, galvanizes its base and mobilizes its army. It’s genius, even though…

“Yes most pastors don’t lead a lavish lifestyle and can even be in a hard place financially as the article points out. If you attend a small church have you asked your pastor if his financial needs are being met? if not you may want to.”  Admin A majority of evangelical pastors in the United States personally suffer from significant financial challenges as they serve in small churches — with most having little to no place to place to turn. The latest research released by the National Association of Evangelicals (NAE) last week shows that the financial hardships experienced by [More]

Have you ever been betrayed by someone you loved? Have you ever faced seemingly insurmountable odds? Has it ever seemed as though there was no way out of your particular dilemma? If so, then you have a good idea of how David felt when he penned the words of Psalm 5. David had made a number…

Napoleon, defeated Spain claimed most of the Americas from its native inhabitants by virtue of first discovery. Conquistadors who explored North America include: Ponce de Leon, 1513 Panfilo de Narvaez, 1527 Desoto, 1539 Coronado, 1540 Cabrillo, 1542 Since gold was minimal in North America, the area was of little interest to the Spanish empire, and thus…

The Islamic Republic of Iran is the home of the fastest-growing church in the world (per Operation World). Thousands of Muslims there are choosing to follow Christ. Dr. Mike Ansari leads a movement called Heart 4 Iran, a movement to reach more Iranians with the gospel message of Christ’s love. Mike was born into an Iranian Muslim family, but his mother came to faith in Christ and was radically transformed, ultimately changing her entire family. Today Dr. Ansari broadcasts the gospel message into Iran, where people are hungry to hear. Listen below as he shares how Jesus is transforming Iranian [More]

Things will never be the same again in a far-flung village in southern Philippines after missionaries from the Christian Aid Mission brought the light of Christianity to tribal people who have known only spiritual darkness. A local ministry from the Mission spent eight months with the Manobo tribal community in northern Mindanao, holding Bible studies and chronologically teaching the narratives of the Hebrew Scriptures up to the New Testament. The local evangelists also screened portions of the 2004 Mel Gibson film “The Passion of the Christ” which greatly affected the people of the village, The Gospel Herald reports. Whole families [More]

A question frequently voiced today is: What has happened to America? How did we go from the greatest nation in the world to an immoral nation with failing schools, government-sponsored division and antipathy, and an orthodoxy of political correctness that punishes truth? The answer is that the two bedrocks America was founded upon and depended upon…