By Melissa Wuske Acceptance on Moral Issues Changing Americans are increasingly accepting of a wide range of moral issues, according to a Gallup poll. The share of respondents who deemed the following issues acceptable are at their highest recorded levels: birth control (91 percent), divorce (73 percent), sex between an unmarried man and woman (69 […]
By Melissa Wuske Christians Believe Competing Worldviews Many Christians agree with ideas that are linked to competing worldviews, according to a recent Barna research study. More than half of practicing Christians resonated with ideas rooted in New Spirituality (61 percent) and postmodernism (54 percent), and about a third agree with ideas from Marxism (36 percent) […]
By Dr. Mark Scott The God of the Bible is a covenant-making God. He makes agreements and contracts (literally “cuts” a deal) with the creation he has made. Our lessons during September will concern some of these covenants (the rainbow, circumcision, the Sabbath, and the Spirit-filled heart). The Hebrew word for covenant, berit, appears 284 […]
By David Faust Rainbows fascinate me. Over the years I have seen little rainbows in the spray of an outdoor fountain and enormous gleaming arcs that tower over the horizon like domes. I have seen rainbows shining above farm fields, church buildings, and airport runways, and once I saw a double rainbow spectacularly suspended above […]
By Laura McKillip Wood Nate McGlumphry’s life has been a long preparation for overseas ministry. When he was 6 years old he met a missionary named Betty Carlson at his church’s children’s program. Betty worked in the Congo and shared with Nate how there were people in the world who had never heard of God […]
