Redeemer Presbyterian Church in New York is planning to convert a 45,00 square foot condo building into a church.

According to Christianity Today, the church bought the building for $29.5 million. Renovations are expected to take two years before the church opens as Redeemer’s Upper East Side church.

The purchase is “an important part of God’s long-term vision for our church,” said James Herring, elder and chair of a Redeemer building committee, in an announcement video posted on August 14.

Once opened, the church will seat about 600 in the sanctuary and 300 can be seated in a fellowship hall.

The purchase marks the end of a four-year hunt for a new church property. Church leaders considered more than 500 properties and made offers on five, Herring said.

The new church site, 150 East 91^st St., is about 16 blocks from Redeemer’s current Upper East Side meeting space at the Temple Israel.

“Most importantly, this is space that for the first time in our history, we would have available 24/7 for our congregation and its ministries,” Herring said. “This will provide regular access to space for our families, meetings, cultural events, community ministry opportunities, and all of the things we have only dreamed of having the space for in the past.”

Herring says he hopes the new location will also position the church to partner with other organizations and facilities in…

An engineer in New York City has created an A.I. “clone” of Jesus that recites Scripture.

According to The Christian Post, the program uses natural language processing to sound human and is programmed to recite certain passages of Scripture from the King James Bible.

In a statement regarding the project on Medium, the engineer, George Davila Durendal, wrote:

“I like to describe this A.I. as locking a baby in a room with nothing but a Bible for 15 years. You then open up the room 15 years later and find that it’s learned to read, speak, and write using nothing but the Bible.”

He further goes on to state “This A.I. learned human language from reading the bible and nothing else; absorbing every word more thoroughly than all the monks of all the monasteries that have ever been.”

In his blog post, he said he hoped one of the topics he asked the AI to write about would be “pertinent” to our current situation. Even though Durendal made such lofty claims about the program, when asked to write about three different topics, the machine spouts out mostly gibberish. Here’s an example about plagues:

“The Plague shall be the fathers in the world; and the same is my

people, that he may be more abundant in the mouth of the LORD of

hosts.

For the tabernacle of the LORD shall be known by the works of the LORD, which proclaimed against this city;

according as he hath sent me to the marriage…

Connecticut schools that allow biological boys who identify as girls to compete in girls’ sports are violating federal law even in light of a recent Supreme Court decision expanding LGBT rights, the Trump Department of Education has ruled.

The department’s Office for Civil Rights issued a revised letter of enforcement Monday to the Connecticut Interscholastic Athletic Conference (CIAC) asserting that a landmark LGBT rights case from June does not change the department’s position that schools are violating Title IX by allowing transgender girls to compete on girls’ teams. The CIAC is the state’s governing body for interscholastic sports.

“The Court expressly declined to decide questions about how its interpretation … would affect other statutes,” the Office for Civil Rights letter said.

At issue in the Connecticut case is Title IX, a 1972 law prohibiting discrimination based on sex in education programs and activities. The Supreme Court’s June ruling involved a different law, Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. The high court said Title VII makes it unlawful to fail to hire or fire someone on the basis of their LGBT identity.

The Office for Civil Rights issued its initial letter to CIAC in May, prior to the high court’s decision.

Two biological boys who identify as girls won 15 Connecticut girls’ state track titles….

Last weekend, thousands of Christians in three Northeastern states experienced a mighty move of God as revival meetings continue to take place across the nation.

Using #LetUsWorship on social media, Bethel worship leader Sean Feucht led believers in praise and worship throughout all three spiritual gatherings in New Jersey, New York and Massachusetts.

According to CBN News, followers of Jesus met in Lincoln Park, NJ  on Friday despite rainy weather.

“We feel like this rain delay is only making us even more hungry and more passionate,” Feucht said. “This is the stuff worship dreams are made of.”

Then on Saturday, a revival meeting was held in New York City’s Washington Square Park. During the event, multiple baptisms and conversions are reported to have occurred.

“This place is filled with people about to get baptized in the fountains of Washington Square Park,” Feucht said, according to CBN News. “Some of them just got saved … some are rededicating.”

Feucht also posted a clip on social media showing NYPD officers being prayed over by believers amid recent tension between law enforcement and civilians throughout the country.

Dr. Charles Karuku from International Outreach Church explained in a Facebook video that 29 people were baptized during Saturday’s meeting, which included a family of five.

“We had people getting born again. We kept on baptizing people,” Karuku added. “We baptized an entire family…

The coronavirus pandemic has revealed weaknesses in western Church culture that can be addressed by using restrictions as an opportunity to go deeper with God, says Francis Chan, the prophetic founder of Cornerstone Church in Simi Valley, California, who now lives in Hong Kong.

Speaking at a Q Session where several high profile evangelical leaders such as John MacArthur, Samuel Rodriguez and Tim Keller shared their thoughts on the pandemic and how the Church should respond to issues such as restrictions and the ongoing debate on religious liberty, Chan said he believes God is using the crisis to wake up Christians.

“I love this season we are in and I think every true believer does because we look at kind of the status quo and we’re just hoping for a time when we were forced into action. It’s almost like you’re training, training, training, for something and here it is. Are we prepared or not? And it’s a time where I look at it like the time when the Israelites were in the desert,” Chan told Gabe Lyons,…