Living with Assurance 　　By Jennifer Slattery 　　“I am writing to you, dear children, 　　because your sins have been forgiven on account of his name. 　　I am writing to you, fathers, 　　because you know him who is from the beginning. 　　I am writing to you, young men, 　　because you have overcome the evil one. 　　I write to you, dear children, 　　because...

　　Gordon College could be on the hook to repay $7 million of COVID-19 relief funds. A federal court rejected eight of the evangelical schools arguments that it should be eligible for loan forgiveness. 　　Gordons lawyers made the case that the religious liberty protections in the First Amendment and the Religious Freedom Restoration Act should allow the institution to count employees...

　　Are You In a Media-Driven Marriage? 　　By Jennifer Waddle 　　I will not set before my eyes anything that is worthless. I hate the work of those who fall away; it shall not cling to me. A perverse heart shall be far from me; I will know nothing of evil. (Psalm 101:3-4) 　　Every time my husband and I finish a television...

　　Everyone has the right to freedom of thought, conscience and religion; this right includes freedom to change his religion or belief, and freedom, either alone or in community with others and in public or private, to manifest his religion or belief in teaching, practice, worship and observance. (Universal Declaration of Human Rights, 18) 　　The context of this affirmation was novel....

　　Jamal Love was trying to fix his wifes bike fender so she could keep riding it to work. For most of their marriage, he would have tried to figure it out on his own. But this time, he realized he could turn to a neighbor for help: a fellow tiny house resident on the property of a church in St....

　　“To humans belong the plans of the heart, but from the Lord comes the proper answer of the tongue.” Proverbs 15:1 (NIV) 　　I had it all planned out. I would take the beginning of the week and get ahead on articles and assignments, leaving me the rest of the week (and part of the month) to work on a big...

　　Dozens of startups now offer Artificial Intelligence tools to help businesses set market prices. Assuming unlimited computing power to run such models and comprehensive data sets to train them, can AI replicate the way human actors make decisions in the marketplace? Socialists have argued for more than a century that enlightened bureaucrats can set prices as well as the myriad...

　　Jehovah Rohi – God is Our Good Shepherd 　　By Jennifer Kostick 　　Today's Bible Verse:The Lord is my shepherd; I shall not want.- Psalm 23:1 　　When I was a little girl, age ten, my grandfather passed away. The paternal side of my family was not active in church and to my knowledge knew nothing about the Jesus my next door neighbors...

　　God Disciplines Us in Love 　　Weekly Overview: 　　There is no better father than Creator God. He formed us and knows us. He provides for us, loves us unconditionally, and longs for real, life-giving relationship with us. He runs out to meet us in our sin, clothes us with new identity, and restores to us the abundant life he has always...

　　Weekend, August 3, 2024 　　The Shepherd’s Desire 　　“The thief’s purpose is to steal and kill and destroy. My purpose is to give them a rich and satisfying life.” (John 10:10 NLT) 　　What is the desire of the Good Shepherd for His sheep? His desire for His flock is for them to flourish. He wants them to be well-fed and cared...

　　Last Sunday, July 28, pastor Csar Mermejo preached about hope in difficult times to his congregation in Maracay, a city of 1.3 million that sits close to the Caribbean coast. 　　But he did so via a pre-recorded audio file he distributed via WhatsApp, following the governments advisory against in-person gatherings on Election Day. 　　In his digital broadcast to Comunidad Cristiana...

　　Vice President Kamala Harris isnt the type of politician to cite the Bible a lot. 　　Darryl Ford, the former pastor of a nondenominational evangelical church in Atlanta, thinks that might be a good thing. 　　Weve gotten used to seeing people who will make Bible quotations and pray for me on a Sunday, then vote to disenfranchise me on a Tuesday,...