February 21st marks two years since the world lost one of the most prolific gospel teachers in these many years, Evangelical Pastor Billy Graham. And even in his death, Graham's legacy of love for Jesus lives on.
February 21st marks two years since the world lost one of the most prolific gospel teachers in these many years, Evangelical Pastor Billy Graham. And even in his death, Graham's legacy of love for Jesus lives on.
The problem Christianity is facing today is the battle over truth. Many people claiming to be Christians are embracing liberal theology, and most of them are against President Trump. This group typically has a problem with the inerrancy of Scripture as well as difficult truths, such as repentance, judgment, and sin.
Pastor Francis Chan recently recalled witnessing miracles of healing. One instance, in particular, really seemed to strike a chord for Chan. The former megachurch pastor recalled a moment when two deaf children came for healing and after being prayed over, they had regained their hearing.
Democrats reportedly walked out of a House of Delegates meeting when a pastor prayed for the rights of the unborn.
Menlo Church pastor John Ortberg reportedly failed to report a confession by a church volunteer that they were attracted to minors.
The city of Edinburgh received an onslaught of complaints when a Christian conference featuring Pastor Larry Stockstill was set to be held in the city. After multiple complaints, the city voted to cancel the conference over Stockstill's views on same-sex marriage.
There is a strain of apocalyptic doom in all of Christianity. Both Old and New Testaments encourage readers to pay attention to the world around them and to be alert for signs of divine activity, especially for the time of God’s coming judgment. The Apostle Paul warned that “the Lord will come like a thief in the night” and that Christians must be “alert and sober.” While expressly forbidding his disciples to wait on the end times, Jesus, in his great eschatological discourse in the Gospel of Mark, told his disciples: “Be on guard. Be alert! You do not know when that time will come.”
Bob Fu never intended this would be his life. Born in Shandong Province to a disabled father and beggar mother, he enrolled in university, fully intending to join the Communist Party and become a government official. God, however, had other plans. An American professor gave him a biography of a Chinese intellectual who converted to Christianity. As Fu told the Wall Street Journal, “that book changed my life.” After graduation, Fu taught English at a Communist Party School in Beijing while he and his wife, Heidi, became active in the house church movement. They even established a Bible school, which used chairs he borrowed from the Communist Party’s school. The Communist Party didn’t quite share Fu’s sense of irony. He and his wife were jailed.
A new Pew Research Center shows that Christian churchgoers are widely mixed on satisfaction with church sermons.
