More than 3,000 evangelical Christians and organizations have joined well-known theologian and pastor, John MacArthur, in endorsing a statement on social justice and the purported dangers the concept poses to the Gospel.

The statement comes in the wake of MacArthur’s recent controversial series that brands social justice as a real threat to the Gospel.

“Clarity on these issues will fortify believers and churches to withstand an onslaught of dangerous and false teachings that threaten the gospel, misrepresent Scripture, and lead people away from the grace of God in Jesus Christ,” the statement explains in an introduction.

“Specifically, we are deeply concerned that values borrowed from secular culture are currently undermining Scripture in the areas of race and ethnicity, manhood and womanhood, and human sexuality. The Bible’s teaching on each of these subjects is being challenged under the broad and somewhat nebulous rubric of concern for ‘social justice,'” it continued. “If the doctrines of God’s Word are not uncompromisingly reasserted and defended at these points,…

Israel’s intelligence minister said this week he was not aware of a claim that President Donald Trump ordered the killing of Syrian President Bashar Assad.

“I do not know of any such instruction. He (Trump) is also denying it, by the way,” Israeli Intelligence Minister Israel Katz told Tel Aviv radio station 103 FM.

According to a new book by Watergate reporter Bob Woodward, Fear: Trump in the White House, Trump told his defense secretary that he wanted to have Assad assassinated in response to a chemical attack on Syrian civilians in April 2017.

James Mattis, the defense secretary, told Trump he would “get right on it” but he then created a plan for a limited air strike.

“We’re not going to do any of that,” Mattis told an aide. “We’re going to be much more measured.” 

Mattis dismissed the book as “a uniquely Washington brand of literature.”

Trump, meanwhile, tweeted that quotes attributed to Mattis were “made up frauds, a con on the public.”

Press secretary Sarah Sanders said the book is “nothing more than fabricated stories, many by former disgruntled employees, told to make the president look bad.”

Woodward also said in the book that former top economic adviser Gary Cohn allegedly stole a letter off Trump’s desk that would have withdrawn the United States from a trade agreement with South Korea. Allegedly, the president…

In an interview with The Weekly Standard, Dr. Tony Evers, the Democratic candidate running for governor of Wisconsin, compared having an abortion to having a tonsillectomy. 

The news outlet asked the candidate if he was in favor of funding for abortions to come from Medicaid. 

Evers replied saying, “We need to have the Medicaid money be available for all people and restricting it because of a certain procedure, whether it’s a tonsillectomy or any other procedure, seems to me a foolhardy thing to do.”

When evangelist Franklin Graham got wind of this comparison he decided to speak out about it. 

Graham took to Facebook writing, “What does it say about our culture when it is acceptable to compare an abortion to a tonsillectomy? That’s pretty unbelievable.”

He continued, “An abortion is the killing of a child in the womb, intentionally ending a life. Taxpayers paying for tonsil removal is not at all the same as paying for an abortion.”

Graham went on to say, “Far too many people who want to be governors, legislators, professors, and teachers in this nation have fallen prey to a culture of death philosophy. They are denying the worth of millions of children made in the image of God.”

According to The Weekly Standard, Evers said the Democratic Party needs pro-life voters.

“We have a big tent here in Wisconsin. We have to in order to…

A memorial service to honor the life of the late Inland Hills Church lead pastor, Andrew Stoecklein, who died after attempting suicide at his church has been set for Saturday.

The Chino, California, church announced on Tuesday that a memorial service for the beloved pastor, who was 30, will be held at the Events Center of California Baptist University in Riverside and will start at 10 a.m.

“In stories, in video, in music, and in community, we celebrate everything we loved about Andrew as a pastor, a family member, and a friend,” the church said in a brief statement about the late pastor.

Stoecklein’s suicide, which came after a battle with depression and anxiety, has attracted international attention and sparked serious discussions about how mental health is treated in the church.

Tamrin Olden, crime prevention supervisor with the City of Chino Police Department, told The Christian Post that at about 11:08 a.m. on Friday, Aug. 24, they received a call from Inland Hills Church about an attempted suicide. When they arrived, they identified Pastor Stoecklein as the victim who would die hours later at a local hospital.

Nearly $300,000 has since been raised in a GoFundMe campaign to help the late pastor’s 29-year-old widow, Kayla, and their three young…

A retired pastor faces eviction from his apartment complex after hosting a nondenominational Bible study for residents, according to a religious liberty organization.

Ken Hauge, 86, and his wife moved into a Fredericksburg, Va., senior living community known as “Evergreens at Smith Run” in January 2017. Residents asked Hauge — a semi-retired Lutheran minister – to begin leading a nondenominational Bible study, and he agreed to do so.

According to First Liberty Institute, Hauge rented the Community Room at the apartment complex for the Bible study, but management insisted he call it a “book review” on notices and in the apartment’s calendar. First Liberty found that Management finally allowed it to be labeled a “Bible study” after being contacted by a friend of one of the attendees.

The study was held for several months until July 23, when religious activities were banned in the community room, First Liberty said. Further, on the same day, Hauge received a notice saying his lease would be terminated unless he “stopped leading the Bible study entirely, either in his private apartment or in the Community Room,” according to a letter of complaint from First Liberty to management. 

First Liberty asserts, the actions by the apartment complex violate the Fair Housing Act. 

“Evicting elderly residents from their home for holding a Bible…