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1. The Shocking Truth About How People Search for God on Google

... into everyday language. For Christianity, this entailed translating the Bible from the original Hebrew and Greek into the commoner's language, Latin. In 382, it was translated by Saint Jerome, who was passionat ...

Created on 21 August 2019

2. Don't Believe the Lie That Christianity Isn't Growing ...

... ow and steady—in a time when skeptics claim Christianity is fading. It's fashionable in America today to bash Christians. The mainstream media insists faith is irrelevant and churches will soon go the ...

Created on 19 August 2019

3. Don't Believe the Lie That Christianity Is Declining ...

... ow and steady—in a time when skeptics claim that Christianity is fading. It's fashionable in American today to bash Christians. The mainstream media insists that faith is irrelevant and that churches  ...

Created on 10 July 2019

4. Why 'The Handmaid's Tale' May Not Be an Attack on Christianity After All  ...

... wing entertainment industry set on attacking Christianity, and by association, right-wing, conservative ideologies. The show feels like a personal attack on Christianity, with some dubbing it as "hate speech  ...

Created on 26 June 2019

5. Why Reading Your Bible Isn't Enough to Grow Spiritually

In today's culture, we are seeing a rise in the association of spirituality, yet the effects of an underdeveloped practice of disciplines has led to a depletion of core characteristics among those who ...

Created on 10 June 2019

6. 8 Ways Global Christianity Is Different From America's Church ...

... om the American church. They all grew up in the former Soviet Union, and they came to America to flee religious persecution. Together we compiled this list of differences: Christianity has a high cost.  ...

Created on 04 June 2019

7. How We Can Disrupt the Consumer Christianity That's Infiltrating the Church ...

It's no secret that North American Christianity has a ring of consumerism to it. It can be a self-centered, "what will you provide for me" religion that invites churchgoers to move from church to chur ...

Created on 03 June 2019

8. When You're Married to an Unbeliever: 3 Words of Wisdom

You may have married before you became a Christian and now feel the growing disconnect between your newer relationship with Jesus and your relationship with your spouse. You may have married someone who ...

Created on 23 April 2019

9. Museum of the Bible Announces Startling Discovery About Dead Sea Scroll Collection

Museum of the Bible announced the results of third-party analysis of five of its 16 Dead Sea Scrolls (DSS) fragments. Utilizing leading-edge technology, the German-based Bundesanstalt für Materialforschung ...

Created on 23 October 2018

10. Why Your Faith Must Be Your Own

Years ago, I was so certain about my faith. I could spit out answers to questions by mining a verse. I had ideas about what a "real" Christian looked like, and based on behavior, I felt like a reasonable ...

Created on 15 October 2018

11. 6 Ways Eastern Meditation Differs From Biblical Meditation

We live in a very stressed-out culture that is constantly looking for ways to unwind and de-stress. Just about any doctor or health expert will tell you to do one thing: meditate. By meditate they mean ...

Created on 08 October 2018

12. Why This Popular New Trend Among Believers Is Far From Biblical

Along with the growing unbiblical trend of self-care among Christian women is a growing trend of speaking positive affirmations. Speaking positive affirmations is a daily practice of one choosing certain ...

Created on 30 September 2018

13. This Big Lie in American Christianity Is Making Us Weak ...

It was another eye-opener to me when in recent articles I shone a light on the gain-is-godliness-carnal-prosperity message and received comments from readers, even friends, accusing me of judging—with ...

Created on 23 August 2018

14. It May Hurt, but This Is the Only Way Jesus Can Set You Free From Fear

Much is made of the fact that Nicodemus "came to Jesus by night." In my opinion, it is much ado about nothing. John's Gospel mentions his nocturnal meeting with Jesus three times. This minor detail has ...

Created on 10 August 2018

15. Alpha Course Changes Hearts and Lives

The Alpha Course is changing lives across the world. Enjoy this powerful video featuring "Emma" of Mexico. Despite her initial resistance to the course due to her grief over her sister's death Alpha has ...

Created on 02 August 2018

16. Why Your Faith Should Go Beyond 'Safe'

I once had a Christian publisher who wouldn't allow me to mention baptism or a cross necklace or even heaven in my book. I don't publish with them anymore, but they are not entirely to blame. The problem ...

Created on 25 July 2018

17. How Almighty God and the Bible Have Influenced our Founding Fathers, Supreme Court, Congress, Education System

Hobby Lobby's 2018 Independence Day advertisement is a reminder to the citizens of the land of the free and the home of the brave: "Blessed in the nation whose God is the Lord." The national arts-and-crafts ...

Created on 03 July 2018

18. Modern Christianity Has One Fatal Flaw ...

... art of our lives in America. There are Enlightenment overtones and emphases in Western Christianity without us realizing it. It is all we have ever known. The Enlightenment proposed that all of man's pro ...

Created on 03 May 2018

19. How to Spot Imitation Christianity ...

Our American culture is one of emulation. People emulate athletes, movie stars, celebrities and so on. Emulation is rampant in our culture. In fact, it is so rampant that for decades it has become pervasive ...

Created on 15 February 2018

20. When People From the Bible Did the Unthinkable, They Experienced the Miraculous

When Mia K. Wright read the Bible, she noticed a pattern: The people who experienced the extraordinary did unordinary things. In her book Unthinkable (March 6, 2018) Wright challenges readers to push past ...

Created on 24 January 2018