By Leonardo Blair, Christian Post Reporter Follow | Wednesday, September 30, 2020

Hillsong Church apologized late Tuesday night for a post on its Twitter account that called President Donald Trump a “bully” and suggested his microphone be cut during the first presidential debate.

“Can’t they just mute Trump’s microphone!! He’s coming across as such a bully. No respect for him sorry. #PresidentialDebate2020,” said the since deleted tweet that criticized the president nearly an hour into Tuesday’s debate with Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden.

Despite the deletion of the tweet, a screenshot of the post quickly became viral on social media and drew concern from people like Greg Locke, popular internet personality and leader of the Global Vision Bible Church in Tennessee.

“Dear @Hillsong, that was deleted very quickly. Careful. I sat beside @brianhoustontv at the RNC acceptance speech…

A Wisconsin court on Monday blocked a local school district policy that allows students to transition to another gender identity at school without parental notice or consent. 

State Judge Frank D. Remington issued an injunction blocking a policy by the Madison Metropolitan School District that allows school officials to conceal information about a child’s gender identity from parents. 

In essence, the policy lets students live one way at school and another way at home – and it gives teachers permission to deceive parents.    

The policy is part of the district’s recently approved “Guidance & Policies to Support Transgender, Non-binary & Gender-Expansive Students.”

Remington’s injunction prevents the district from “applying or enforcing any policy, guideline, or practice” that “allows or requires District staff to conceal information or to answer untruthfully in response to any question that parents ask about their child at school, including information about the name and pronouns being used to address their child at school.”

The legal group Alliance Defending Freedom sued the district on behalf of multiple parents. 

The district’s official policy allows children of any age “to socially transition to a different gender identity at school by selecting a new ‘affirmed name and pronouns’ to be used at school ‘regardless of…

Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby, head of the global Anglican Communion, recently warned Christians against “treating church as politics” and engaging in bad behavior on social media.

Archbishop Welby preached a sermon on Sunday at the Washington National Cathedral in Washington, D.C., which focused on how refugees should be treated.

During his remarks, Welby said that the Kingdom of God is “an autocracy of the purest love,” and Christians “do not choose to be its citizens; its ruler called us out of helpless darkness.”

After noting that “our role is to proclaim, our joy is to celebrate,” Welby went on to warn that this is “not always how we show ourselves.”

“Treating church life as politics and our way of doing things as superior, we engage in malicious comment through social media, we are insincere, we are cruel,” he said. “We have been transformed by the grace of God alone, yet we behave as though we then had to wage a civil war in God’s church so that our views may…

Carter Conlon, who is best known for his role as the former Senior Pastor of Times Square Church in New York City, is inviting Christians to a special prayer meeting in October in Plymouth, Massachusetts as he believes God is calling His church to intercede for America.

The event will be held in the same location where the pilgrim’s sought the Lord 400 years ago upon their arrival to the country on the Mayflower.

“We’re going to be hosting a prayer meeting from the very house built in 1790 that sits on the portion of ground where the first house in America was built by the Plymouth settlers in 1620,” Conlon told CBN News. “It was in that house, that in a position of weakness, with half of them having given their lives the first year for the cause of freedom and religious freedom, they prayed.”

The pilgrims would go on to dedicate the country to God as part of a sacred covenant with Him.

“And God promised them 400 years ago, they and their descendants would have that freedom here in what became the Land of the Free. But what did we do with that freedom?” Conlon asked.

He added that Americans have then since violated their God-given freedom throughout the nation’s history such as slavery and the current issue of broken families, civil interest, and abortion.

“We’re going to ask God for forgiveness for what we did as a nation with…

By Leonardo Blair, Christian Post Reporter Follow | Wednesday, September 30, 2020

Trustees of the Southern Baptist Convention’s publishing arm, LifeWay Christian Resources, are expected to gather in an emergency meeting Wednesday to discuss a lawsuit against the organization’s former president, Thom Rainer, for allegedly breaching his severance agreement.

The lawsuit filed Monday in Williamson County, Tennessee, and cited by the Baptist Press, points to an agreement between Rainer and LifeWay upon his 2019 retirement that prevented him from doing business with LifeWay competitors until Oct. 31, 2021. Among competitors listed in the agreement is Tyndale House Publishers, which announced in August that it had reached a “multi-book, multi-year agreement” with Rainer.

A news release said the partnership would produce books that cover topics vital to a church’s life and health within the…

Christianity Today reports that most Biden-supporting white evangelical Christians say many of their friends are voting for President Trump.

This comes from a Pew Research Center poll that, according to Christianity Today, found that “White evangelicals who back Biden are about twice as likely (46%) as Biden supporters overall (22%) to say that many of their close friends plan to vote for Trump.”

Christianity Today reports that many Biden Evangelicals come from republican-leaning pro-Trump communities, and ultimately over 80% of evangelicals plan to vote for President Trump.

According to the poll, “Among Biden supporters, those with a four-year college degree are somewhat more likely than those with less education to say they have a lot of friends who back Biden. But they are somewhat less likely to report having no Trump-supporting friends.” However, the poll also found fewer Black people say most of their friends are voting for Biden than they said for Hillary Clinton in 2016. Further, the poll found that nearly 1 in 3 Trump supporters in counties Clinton won by wide margins have no close friends who support Joe Biden for president.

This report came out a day before the Presidential Debate last night, where a focus group of Democrats, Republicans, and Independents all came away with a mixed bag of people who thought President Trump or Candidate Biden did…

California Gov. Gavin Newsom has approved a law in the state for transgender criminals and another law that provides grants to hospitals for hormone therapy for transgender persons.

According to CBN News, under Senate Bill 132, prison inmates who identify as transgender, non-binary or intersex will be able to choose their gender identity when they are admitted to the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation.

The bill is known as the Transgender Respect, Agency, and Dignity Act and was introduced by state Sen. Scott Wiener in hopes of reducing the possibility of violence against transgender inmates.

“SB.132 protects transgender people in prison, by allowing them to be housed where they’re safest, instead of automatically being placed in the facility corresponding to their birth-assigned gender,” Wiener tweeted about the bill in early September. “Trans women are frequently brutalized in men’s prisons.”

Under the law, the state can refuse a request if there are “management or security concerns.”

In a second approval, Newson approved the Transgender Wellness and Equity Fund, which uses taxpayer dollars for treatments and medical procedures for transgender children.

The law earmarks grants for hospitals and clinics for hormone therapy and gender reassignment surgeries.

Assembly member Miguel Santiago says the law provides “critical medical…

On the same week of the first presidential debate, President Trump and Democratic Presidential nominee Joe Biden have both received nominations for the coveted Nobel Peace Prize.

On Tuesday, a Senior Member of Parliament announced that Biden would be nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize.

According to the Evening Standard, Chris Bryant, a member of the United Kingdom’s Labour Party, explained that Biden is someone who attempts to resolve issues through a “force of argument” instead of “violent solutions.”

“When others have resorted to violent solutions, he has argued that the best force is the force of argument,” Bryant said. “Because guns can stop a heart but well-placed words can change many hearts, and many hearts can change a world.”

For Trump, a group of Australian law professors are nominating the President for the Nobel Peace Prize in light of his “Trump Doctrine.”

“What he has done with the Trump Doctrine is that he has decided he would no longer have America in endless wars, wars which achieve nothing but the killing of thousands of young Americans,” Professor David Flint told Sky News on Monday. “So he’s reducing America’s tendency to get involved in any and every war.”

Flint also commended Trump for his recent peace agreements between Israel and two Arab countries, the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain.

“He went ahead and negotiated against all advice, but he did it…