belief

Thousands of people gathered on Sunday at the AT&T Stadium in Arlington, Texas for Pastor Greg Laurie’s Harvest America 2018.

When reporting the incident to the press, she told them she believed God used her wallet as a shield: “Just by the grace of God. It`s a miracle to keep me or him from getting hit.”

A new survey shows that in a number of Western nations, the population no longer believes in Heaven or Hell, even if they also claim to believe in God.

A new study found that most Americans believe the Bible is divinely inspired, but fewer than ever are taking its word literally.

Two new surveys have revealed what Americans believe about the Bible and how often they read it.

This is how many people view Christianity—a superstitious faith founded on wish fulfillment whose followers refuse to change their beliefs regardless of the evidence. But they’re wrong.

<p>“Heaven is a fairy tale for people afraid of the dark.” –Stephen Hawking</p><p>I’m afraid of the dark.</p><p>If we’re talking about the endless kind of darkness that offers no light anywhere, no hope ever, and nothing but nothingness, who among us would not panic at the thought of that?</p><p>I expect people like Mr. Hawking simply find the idea of Heaven too good to be true, and thus conclude that it must be a product of man’s delusional yearning for “pie in the sky by and by.”</p><p>And yet, there are solid reasons for reasonable people to believe in the concept of a Heavenly home after this earthly life. Here are some that mean a lot to me. By no means is this list exhaustive. It’s simply my thinking on the subject.</p><p>The God who made us created us with a longing for Himself and a satisfaction in nothing less.</p><p>When we get to Heaven, we will finally be satisfied, but not until then. “I shall be satisfied with Thy likeness when I awake” (Psalm 17:15).</p><p>“I go to prepare a place for you,” said our Lord. “And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again and receive you unto myself, that where I am, there you may be also.” (John 14:3).</p><p>If it were not so, I would have told you.</p><p>Jesus said that. I believe Him.</p><p>I choose to believe.</p>

Twelve percent of Americans claimed they had no belief, while two percent had no opinion. Such surveys fuel the persistent claim that faith is in serious decline in the U.S. However, these numbers don't tell the whole story.

After nine years of dispensing wisdom on life and listening to interesting facts about his life, Dos Equis is retiring the bearded bandit who was a cultural phenomenon.

Christians are the intellectual outlaws under the current secular conditions. To believe the truth claims of Christianity is to defy principalities and powers -- and to face an intellectual onslaught.