Billy Graham Devotional 9 November 2018 – What Is Conscience?

Topic: What Is Conscience? [Billy Graham Devotional 9 November 2018]

Having a good conscience . . . — 1 Peter 3:16

What is conscience? God has put within each one of us something that cries aloud against us, whenever we do that which we know to be wrong. Conscience is the detective that watches the direction of our steps and decries every conscious transgression. Conscience is a vigilant eye before which each imagination, thought, and act, is held up for either censure or approval.

I believe there is no greater argument for the existence of God in the world today than conscience. There is no greater proof of the existence of a moral law and Lawgiver in the universe than this little light of the soul. It is God’s voice to the inner man. Conscience is our wisest counselor and teacher, our most faithful and most patient friend.

Prayer for the day: Thank You, Father, for my conscience which checks me and guards my actions. Help me to be alert to its promptings, through Your Holy Spirit.

“If you missed yesterday devotional, please click to read Billy Graham’s Daily Devotional HERE

Written by Billy Graham, Founder of Billy Graham Evangelistic Association(BGEA). BGEA exists to proclaim the Gospel of Jesus Christ by every effective means and to equip the church and others to do the same.

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Chip and Joanna Gaines Talk Possibly Expanding Their Family

Chip and Joanna Gaines Talk Possibly Expanding Their Family



HGTV Fixer Upper stars Chip and Joanna Gaines recently opened up about the possibility of expanding their family. 


Chip and Joanna Gaines recently appeared on NBC’s Today Show to talk about Joanna’s new book, Home Body, but the conversation quickly shifted when the couple’s four-month-old son, Crew, was bought out onto set. 


While Today show hosts Hoda Kotb and Savannah Guthrie held baby Crew, Joanna gushed over her son saying, “He is a gift. He really, we were talking the other day just saying how… time has just slowed down time. He has just been a gift.” 


Crew was an unexpected pregnancy for the family, making him the fifth Gaines child. 


In the Today show interview the couple also made hints at plans for having more children in the future.


When the hosts asked if they had plans to expand their family further given Chip’s known desire to have six kids, Joanna looked at her husband saying, he wants Crew “to have a sister.” 


The interior designer continued saying, “I love the process of being pregnant, I love giving birth,” she added. 


The hosts also asked Joanna how their four other children were reacting to having Crew as their new sibling given the eight-year age gap between Crew and the next youngest child. 


Joanna assured the hosts that the age gap was not an issue for her family saying, “it’s easy.”


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Alabama Voters Approve Public Displays of the Ten Commandments

Alabama Voters Approve Public Displays of the Ten Commandments



Voters in Alabama overwhelmingly approved the public display of the Ten Commandments Tuesday. 


The vote adds an amendment to the state’s Constitution which reaffirms religious liberty for all people, allows the display of the Ten Commandments according to certain “constitutional” standards, and forbids the expenditure of public money in defense of the amendment or the displays it authorizes.


The measure, favored by more than 71 percent of Alabama voters, reads, “Proposing an amendment to the Constitution of Alabama of 1901, providing for certain religious rights and liberties; authorizing the display of the Ten Commandments on state property and property owned or administrated by a public school or public body; and prohibiting the expenditure of public funds in defense of the constitutionality of this amendment.”


The amendment’s leading advocate, Dean Young, heralded its passage as a watershed moment for the state. He said, “The people we were hearing from are super excited to have this opportunity to go down in history as the first state to acknowledge that we want God, that is the Christian God, in their Constitution. This is the first time in the history of the country that a state has taken such a stand in acknowledging the God of the Old and New Testament.”


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War Room’s T.C. Stallings Only Takes Roles that Bring Glory to God

War Room’s T.C. Stallings Only Takes Roles that Bring Glory to God



T.C. Stallings planned on utilizing his talents on the football field on Sundays in the NFL, but the course of his life changed when he saw the movie Fireproof.  Moved by what he saw on the screen, his “heart started thumping to act.”


Stallings explained that he spent time praying and asking God to help him discern if his newfound desire truly came from him. After landing a role in Courageousand seeing how God worked through that film, he committed to his craft whole-heartedly. He said, “I don’t care where I’m going. I just care who’s leading.”


Stallings said he now sees making movies with a positive message as his calling from God. With so many movies and television shows advocating negative messages, he believes that “We need something to go up against that.” He wants to be an actor who uses “all my gifts and talents to glorify God and lift him up.”


Stallings uses his commitment to making positive movies that bring glory to God as a filter for deciding which movie roles he will accept. He said that “When someone approaches me with a project, I give it to the Lord.” He further explained that “If I ever took a role where it makes it difficult for me to tell people about Jesus then it’s a for sure ‘no’ for me.”


Stallings shared how he came to understand grace and became a Christian in the interview. He explained that he lived for…

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Black Panther Star Reveals How Her Christian Faith Transformed Her Life

Black Panther Star Reveals How Her Christian Faith Transformed Her Life



When Black Panther star Letitia Wright recently spoke with The Hollywood Reporter, the actress revealed that her faith plays a significant role in how she approaches her career.


Wright began her acting career in the early 2010s with smaller roles in tv shows, including Doctor Who and Top Boy. While she scored a few feature roles, Wright soon found herself battling depression throughout her early years in Hollywood.


In an article from Tribune Content Agency, Wright thought back to that difficult period: “I was putting so much pressure on myself. You get comfortable with the idea of thinking, ‘Maybe it’s OK to leave.’ [I was in] a very dark place.”


The actress made the decision to take a break from acting, as she felt that she “idolized it.” She opened up to FaithWire in a February interview, recalling her choice to temporarily step back from the spotlight:


“So I came off from it and I went on a journey to discover my relationship with God, and I became a Christian,” she mentioned. “It really just gave me so much love and light within myself. I felt secure, like I didn’t need validation from anyone else, or from getting a part.”


In 2015, Wright began to attend a Bible study and began following Jesus shortly thereafter. She knew that she needed to take time for herself and focus on what was really important in her life. This turned out to…

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69-Y-O Dutch Man Asks Court to Declare He is 49, Cites Transgender Ideology, American Thinking, Trump, and Tinder – Urban Christian News

Claiming age is as fluid as gender, Emile Ratelband, a 69-year-old Dutch pensioner who feels like he’s in his 40s has asked a court in his hometown of Arnhem, southeast of Amsterdam, to allow him to change his birth certificate to show that he is as young as he feels.

According to The Washington Post, Ratelband wants his birth certificate to say he was born on March 11, 1969, rather than on March 11, 1949 when he was actually born.

Judges heard Ratelband’s case on Monday and are expected to make a decision on the case in the next several weeks.

Ratelband, who is advocating for his age change similar to arguments made by the transgender movement, agreed to see mental health professionals to assure officials that he wasn’t a “victim of the Peter Pan syndrome.” He convinced experts that he wasn’t deluding himself and insists his request is no different than if he was seeking a petition to change the gender he was assigned at birth.

“Because nowadays, in Europe and in the United States, we are free people,” Ratelband told The Washington Post. “We can make our own decisions if we want to change our name, or if we want to change our gender. So I want to change my age. My feeling about my body and about my mind is that I’m about 40 or 45.”

Ratelband, a trainer and life coach who previously worked as a baker, believes that if he is legally recognized to be in his 40s he can, among other things, improve his dating life.

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Trump Ousts Jeff Sessions as Attorney General

Trump Ousts Jeff Sessions as Attorney General



President Trump removed Attorney General Jeff Sessions from his post Wednesday, ending a tumultuous relationship that began souring after Sessions recused himself from overseeing the investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election.


Sessions sent Trump a resignation letter hours after being asked to step down. He was among the first prominent Republicans to endorse Trump during the Republican primaries. 


“At your request, I am submitting my resignation,” the letter read. “Since the day I was honored to be sworn in as Attorney General of the United States, I came to work at the Department of Justice every day determined to do my duty and serve my country. I have done so to the best of my ability, working to support the fundamental legal processes that are the foundation of justice.”


The letter added that the Justice Department had, under Sessions’ time, “restored and upheld the rule of law” and “operated with integrity” and “lawfully and aggressively advanced the policy agenda of this administration.”


Trump repeatedly had expressed regret for appointing Sessions to the post, saying if he had known Sessions was going to recuse himself, he would have hired someone else. 


Trump named Sessions’ chief of staff, Matt Whitaker, as the acting attorney general. The Washington Post reported Thursday that Whitaker isn’t expected to recuse himself from the…

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Make Withdrawals From God’s ‘Heavenly’ Bank Account With $19/Month Bible Study

(Screenshot: YouTube)Televangelist Creflo Dollar, promotes his Grace Life Academy.

Televangelist Creflo Dollar, founder and senior pastor of the nearly 30,000-member World Changers Church International, is now offering a $19 per month online Bible study that he says will help people make withdrawals from God’s metaphorical bank account.

Through Dollar’s online discipleship courses that launched during the summer, Grace Life Academy, subscribers will have unlimited access to his Bible studies which he recently explained in a promotional video will help them live a life of “joy and abundance.”

“I would like to take this opportunity to share a practical example of how to empower your life with an understanding of the grace message,” Dollar said in a video posted to YouTube on Monday.

“Let’s use an example you all are familiar with. You have a bank account. A need arises so you access the funds in that account to pay for dinner or to pay for something nice for yourself. We know in order to access the account, you need a couple of things. You either need the bank account information or the bank card. Without the account information or the bank card, you will not be able to access the funds contained within it,” he said.

“So many of us are living our lives with unmet needs,…

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Lauren Daigle Brings Worship to Late Night, Performs on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon

Lauren Daigle Brings Worship to Late Night, Performs on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon



Lauren Daigle made her late night debut last night as she graced The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon stage performing her song “Look Up Child.”


The Billboard Music award winner took to the stage Wednesday night to sing the title track from her new hit album which reached number one of the Top Christian Albums chart and number three on the Billboards Top 200 chart. 


Daigle has recently been making the mainstream talk show rounds first appearing on The Ellen Show late last month which was met with some criticism. 


The Christian artists defended her decision to perform on the openly-gay talk show hosts show in a radio interview saying, “I think the second we start drawing lines around which people are able to be approached and which aren’t, we’ve already completely missed the heart of God.”


She continued, “I don’t have all the answers in life, but one thing I know is that I can’t choose who I’m supposed to be kind to and who I’m not, because that’s the mission right? Be who Christ was to everyone as well.”


Daigle’s performance on The Tonight Show was met with much more excitement following her defense, many people excited that a Christian artist is getting mainstream publicity. 


One Twitter user wrote, “Lauren Daigle on Jimmy Fallon… BRING ON THE PRAISE!” 

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UK gov welcome release of Sudan Christians

In a written question to the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, Tory MP Sir Henry Bellingham (pictured) asked what the government was doing to promote freedom of religion and belief after reports of the arrest of 13 Christians in Darfur in October.

According to World Watch Monitor, the believers were taken by security services from the home they share in Nyala with no reason given for their arrest.

 

They were released shortly after.

There have also been reports of Christians being accused of apostasy and churches in dispute with authorities over ownership of buildings.

Responding to the reports, Foreign Office minister Harriett Baldwin: said: “The British Government is aware of reports of the detention of 13 Christians in Darfur last month, and welcomes their recent release.

“We continue to make clear to the Government of Sudan our expectation that all detainees are treated in accordance with international standards.

“Sudan remains a Human Rights Priority Country for the Foreign and Commonwealth Office and we discussed freedom of religion or belief at the sixth round of the UK-Sudan Strategic Dialogue on 7 November. I visited Sudan in September, and the Minister for the Commonwealth and UN visited in October. We both raised religious freedom issues with senior members of the government and with Christian and Muslim religious leaders.”

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