January 24, 2018 is a special day at Oral Roberts University as we commemorate the day ORU’s founder and namesake would have turned 100 years old. The university will have a daylong celebration, including dedicating our regularly scheduled chapel service to honoring and remembering Oral Roberts, his…
A teen was walking home from Bible study when he was struck and killed by a train this week.
De’vante Moore, 18, was crossing a darkened area of the tracks where there were no lights to signal the train’s coming. His brother and sister were behind…
Alabama may do away with marriage licenses altogether. (William J. Sisti via Flickr )
Alabama legislators are pushing forward a bill to completely eliminate the need for marriage licenses.
Republican state Sen. Greg Albritton, the bill’s sponsor, told Fox News the bill is a direct response to the U.S. Supreme Court’s 2015 decision to legalize gay marriage (Obergefell v. Hodges).
“No one particularly likes changing our law, I’ll tell you that,” he said. “However, under the circumstances, it’s the…
Gunmen stormed an office of the Save the Children aid agency in Afghanistan’s eastern city of Jalalabad on Wednesday and battled security forces all day with at least five people killed and 24 wounded before the attack was finally suppressed.
Born 100 years ago today on Jan. 24, 1918, in impoverished circumstances north of Ada, Oklahoma, Oral Roberts’ miraculous healing as a teen would serve as a precursor to the ministry that made him one of the premier evangelists of the 20th century.
It happened en route to a meeting where the 17-year-old Roberts was healed of both stuttering and tuberculosis through the ministry of unknown evangelist George W. Moncey. “Son, I am going to heal you, and you are…
(Photo: The Christian Post / Samuel Smith )Smooth Via gives his family’s adoption testimony at annual Evangelicals for Life conference at the J.W. Marriott in Washington, D.C. on Jan. 19, 2018.
WASHINGTON — A Christian father, who along with his wife and three children, moved to Africa in 2013 after the U.S. government refused to let them bring home their newly adopted daughter from Uganda, spoke Friday what it means to act on God’s convictions despite not knowing exactly what The Lord is calling for.
Jonathan “Smooth” Via, a pastor and missionary affiliated with the humanitarian organization Arise Africa, gave his family’s testimony while speaking at the 2018 Evangelicals for Life conference at the J.W. Marriott, hosted by the Southern Baptist Convention’s Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission ahead of the March for Life in the nation’s capital.
Via, who proposed to his wife, Kelly, on the banks of the Nile River in 2001, has for many years had a passion for the people of Uganda and has served on many Arise Africa short-term missions there.
Although the Vias had made several mission trips to the developing country in the past, Via explained that it wasn’t until they went there again for a short-term mission in 2010 that their lives would change forever.
It was that year when Arise Africa had just opened what Via referred to as a “babies home” in response to requests from local pastors who were looking for ways to help orphaned and at-risk children. Naturally, the Vias decided to visit the home.
“It was while we were [at the babies’ home] that something changed in me. I don’t have the…
Evangelical leaders pray over Donald Trump. (Christian News/YouTube)
A new study by research group Barna has revealed that, though an increasing percentage of Americans do not trust President Trump, most Christians continue to pray for the commander in chief.
The Trump presidency has been shrouded in controversy over a range of issues, including sexual assault allegations as well as volatile Twitter rants about “fake news.” It has been an absolute roller coaster, and the relentless debate appears…
(Photo: Joni and Friends/A. Larry Ross Communications)Joni Eareckson Tada is a radio host and the founder of the Joni and Friends International Disability Center.
WASHINGTON — Renowned evangelical author and disabilities advocate Joni Eareckson Tada is warning that the United States could one day become like Canada or more liberal European nations that promote physician-assisted suicide unless Christians push back against the trend.
Eareckson Tada, a 68-year-old quadriplegic and best-selling author, spoke with The Christian Post last week before giving a keynote address at the annual Evangelicals for Life conference in the nation’s capital in which she addressed the topic of “dignity in disability.”
Tada, the founder of the Joni and Friends International Disability Center who was paralyzed in a diving accident when she was 17, stressed that the way a strong majority of the American public and many evangelicals are quickly embracing physician-assisted suicide as a “morally acceptable” option when patients face terminal illnesses, she could easily see the U.S. going the way of more socially progressive nations within the next 10-plus years.
“Thirty-eight percent of evangelicals feel that it’s morally permissible for physicians to help when requested for aid in dying,” Tada said, referring to a 2016 LifeWay Research poll. “That shows me that No. 1, we don’t have a biblical worldview on suffering and we don’t know how to deal with it. We want to drug it, escape it, euthanize it, do anything but live with it. No. 2, we fear it.”
“What we have done in our country is we have allowed…
As we celebrate many landmark victories at the beginning of the 2018 new year, including the new MLK National Historic Park and other historical revelations, let us thank God for the opportunities before us; we can be great again.
We are approaching Black History Month. Let’s prepare to maximize opportunities for unity and reconciliation as we acknowledge the biblical and scientific evidence that we are not separate races, but are rather One Blood/One human race. This…
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