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1. Michael Brown: If We Are to Be Hated, Let It Be for the Right Reason

On numerous occasions, Jesus promised us, His followers, that we would be hated. That is something we should expect and even embrace. Let's just be sure we are hated for the right reasons. Being hated ...

Created on 21 January 2021

2. How a Revived Church Will Only Come at a Price

The church as a whole has become comfortable—too comfortable. All-night prayer meetings have been exchanged for all-night Netflix binges. Powerful worship services where the Spirit of God is moving have ...

Created on 19 January 2021

3. How the Left Wants to Eliminate Competing Ideas

It was President Dwight Eisenhower who once wrote that "in a democracy debate is the breath of life." Today, it seems as if the left wants to snuff that breath out. Competing ideas must be censored and ...

Created on 19 January 2021

4. What Do We Do Now to Protect Our Democracy?

They say a picture is worth a thousand words. Recent events in our nation's capital produced images that seemed to strike at the very heart of our democracy. I watched, along with the rest of America, ...

Created on 13 January 2021

5. 3 Takeaways From Historic 'Stop the Steal' Event in Washington, D

We are witnessing history. The events of the past 24 hours will reverberate throughout the corridors of time. Their significance cannot be overstated. Because I lived 24 years in the Washington, D.C., ...

Created on 06 January 2021

6. Why Cultural Differences Could Set the American Church Back 30 Years

To say the church is divided over the U.S. elections, racism, whether to physically meet in churches and any number of other issues is an overwhelming understatement. This disunity is beyond spots and ...

Created on 05 January 2021

7. How Pontifical Pharisaism and High-Sounding Doublespeak Rule in America

... from all filthiness, and to walk with heavenly circumspection." American Christendom's folly of constructing a "subculture" over the last century is clearly coming into view. Christians fire blanks and ...

Created on 21 December 2020

8. Local Churches as Centers of Resistance

... communities not only as centers of difference—that is, places where one grasps the meaning of the world as different from what you find in the dominant culture—but even more so as centers of resistance. ...

Created on 18 December 2020

9. Thomas McDaniels Shares 2020 Version of 'My Grown-Up Christmas List' ...

...  culture." In 2020 history has been wiped from our eyes and hidden under perceived opinion. Cancel culture has taken to social media and canceled products and movements. Canceling things you don't lik ...

Created on 17 December 2020

10. 8 Reasons Why the Church Lost the Culture Wars in North America

... By the 1950s, they were celebrated. By the '70s and '80s, they were tolerated, and by the late 2000s, they were hated in popular secular culture. While there are many reasons for this, I will talk about ...

Created on 16 December 2020

11. Can America Survive This Perfect Storm?

... our national history to 1619 or 1776? Can we separate Black Lives Matter from the BLM movement? And what about Antifa? And the cancel culture? And mobocracy? Are we safe in our own neighborhoods? It ...

Created on 15 December 2020

12. Why the Kingdom Must Rise Up Against Social Media Giants' Domination

It is true that Google is not imprisoning dissenters in a vast network of prison camps, similar to what Alexander Solzhenitsyn described in The Gulag Archipelago. But there is a good reason that retired ...

Created on 11 December 2020

13. Is Promise Keepers' Comeback Coincidental or Providential in Crisis Times?

In 1997, I stood with my sons and 1.4 million boys, young and older men on the National Mall in Washington, D.C., for the Promise Keepers' historic "Stand in the Gap" event. It was the largest gathering ...

Created on 09 December 2020

14. Christian Alternative to Netflix Impacts Believers With Edifying, Faith-Based Content

Recent events have revealed a dark side to Netflix, a media company that has been accused of distributing highly questionable, if not immoral, content on its network. Netflix has received a great deal ...

Created on 09 December 2020

15. The Definitive Answer for America to the Insanity of 2020

... prayer strategy and make it your own. The most important thing is to pray. There is a Damascus Road encounter awaiting many of our culture's influencers, and your intercession will help push back the ...

Created on 30 November 2020

16. Author's Book Researching Uptick in Transgender Identification Censored, 'Cancele

... idea is wrong. Which path do we want to follow: a culture of free speech with a robust marketplace of ideas, or a culture of censorship in which activists, CEOs and journalists decide which ideas are open ...

Created on 24 November 2020

17. Former Miss America Challenges Christians to Leverage Faith Influence

In an informational world that's sometimes dominated by secular themes, political commentator and former Miss America Kirsten Haglund says it's essential for Christians not to retreat. "We shouldn't ...

Created on 23 November 2020

18. Michael Brown and Larry Tomczak Declare It's Time for Spiritual Revolutio

... its radical claims, a call for the people of God to impact this generation with the prophetic message of repentance, a call to spark the most sweeping counterculture movement in our nation's history, a ...

Created on 18 November 2020

19. Does Supporting President Trump Hurt the Gospel? Andy Stanley Says Yes

The divide in our nation among Christians seems to be fueled primarily by misinformation and false narratives. God is allowing these differences so we can practice Scripture and love those we disagree ...

Created on 16 November 2020

20. Longtime 'Jeopardy!' Host Alex Trebek Dies of Pancreatic Cancer at 8

Nearly a year and a half after being diagnosed with stage 4 pancreatic cancer, longtime Jeopardy! host Alex Trebek died Sunday, several news media outlets reported. He was 80. Trebek died at his California ...

Created on 08 November 2020