A scene from “Stranger Things” season 2. (Netflix/YouTube)
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(Screenshot: YouTube/Ligonier Ministries)A panel of theologians at the Ligonier Ministries event “Reformation 500 Celebration” on Tuesday, October 30, 2017. From left to right: Chris Larson, president and CEO of Ligonier Ministries; Stephen J. Nichols, president of Reformation Bible College and chief academic officer for Ligonier Ministries; Sinclair Ferguson, Ligonier Ministries teaching fellow and Chancellor’s Professor of Systematic Theology at Reformed Theological Seminary; and Derek W.H. Thomas, senior minister at the First Presbyterian Church in Columbia, South Carolina, and professor at Reformed Theological Seminary.
The biggest threat to Christianity in the modern day comes from within, a panel of theologians said at an event hosted by Ligonier Ministries Tuesday evening to celebrate the 500th anniversary of the Protestant Reformation.
During a Q&A session, scholars were asked what they believe is the biggest threat to Christianity in the 21st century.
Sinclair Ferguson, Ligonier Ministries teaching fellow and Chancellor’s Professor of Systematic Theology at Reformed Theological Seminary, responded that the greatest threat is “probably Christianity in this century.”
“That’s a greater threat than Islam. Christendom. A far greater threat to Christianity than Islam…
Several people were killed and numerous others injured in New York City on Tuesday afternoon after a vehicle drove down a bike path that runs alongside the Hudson River in Manhattan, police said.
(Photo: Harvest America)Pastor Greg Laurie preaches at Harvest America at the University of Phoenix Stadium on June 11, 2017.
Every Christian has a responsibility to evangelize and try to bring people to Jesus Christ, says megachurch Pastor Greg Laurie, describing discipleship as not unlike a plane’s safety instructions.
Laurie, who leads Harvest Christian Fellowship in Riverside, California, reflected on Jesus’ Words in Matthew 28 in a Facebook video posted on Tuesday.
In Matthew 28, Jesus Christ said: “Go into all the world and make disciples of all nations, teaching them to observe all things that I have commanded you, and lo I am with you even to the end of the age.”
Laurie explained what the passage means, saying: “It means go out, [and] to the best of your ability, lead people to Christ, get them on their feet spiritually, and go and repeat the process again, and again, and again.”
He added: “It’s sort of like, wash, rinse, repeat — evangelize, discipleship, do it again. We’re all called to do this, no one gets off the hook.”
Laurie said that in order for people to make disciples, they must first be disciples themselves.
“You know when you’re on the planes and they’re telling you what to do in case you lose oxygen, and the masks come down? They say first put it on…
Ex-witch Beth says she used to love Halloween—until she connected the dots.
“I really don’t like to give a lot of details about it because it’s very hard to talk about and, quite frankly, I don’t want to disturb (people completely),” Beth says in a new video.
Since her salvation in recent years and subsequent inner healings and deliverance, Beth came to realize she was abused in a satanic ritual on Halloween when she was just 3.
“We went to the (Mormon) church and what happened next made my blood…
Duck Dynasty Stars Make Hotel Cleaning Woman’s Day with Act of Kindness
Stars of Duck Dynasty Phil and Kay Robertson recently reached out in an act of kindness while they were on a trip to Washington D.C. and New York City.
Kay Robertson explained what happened in a video uploaded to Phil Robertson’s Facebook page:
“I went to find the lady that cleaned my room … and I found her and she thought she was in trouble. But I said, ‘No, I just want to give you something’ and I gave her something and then I gave her a big hug and I kissed her on the cheek.”
The hotel cleaning woman was overcome with emotion at Miss Kay’s act of kindness. Then Miss Kay discovered that “In her 14 years working there she had never been hugged by a customer.”
This act of kindness not only made the woman’s day, but it gave the Robertsons an opportunity to share the Gospel with her, according to Faithwire.com.
“I got a piece of paper and I drew an arrow coming down out of heaven … I said, ‘Two thousand seventeen years ago, year one, God came down in flesh.’ She said, ‘Really?’” Phil recalled. “I said, ‘Yup … he died on the cross for all of our sins, yours and mine. And they put him in a tomb, three days later he resurrected from the dead, he came back to life.’”
The woman said she believed in this Good News and the Robertsons encouraged her to continue in the faith and to read Scripture.
In the spirit of the legendary 95 theses of German priest and scholar Martin Luther addressing widespread abuse in the Church in his day, the Mosaix Global Network led by Mark DeYmaz, presented 95 theses from an international group of church leaders calling out the segregation of the American Church on the 500th Anniversary of the Reformation.
“Systemic inequities and racialization within the American Church have unintentionally undermined the very Gospel we love and for which we live. An increasingly diverse and cynical society is no longer finding credible the message of God’s love for all people as proclaimed from segregated pulpits and pews,” DeYmaz, who is also founding pastor of Mosaic Church in Little Rock, Arkansas, wrote in his thesis.
“Jesus both commands and expects believers — individually and collectively — to love God and our neighbors; biblically speaking, those very different than us. Indeed, the Apostle Paul’s entire life and ministry was devoted to advancing a Gospel of Gentile inclusion in opposition to an otherwise all Jewish understanding of the Gospel, local church, and coming Kingdom of God. For nearly 20 years, then, I have been asking myself and seeking to address one simple question: If the Kingdom of Heaven is not…
Two private high school Christian football teams planned to pray before a championship game and wanted to use the public-address system to do so, but the state athletic association said no. Their reason: transmitting a Christian prayer would violate the “separation of…
Three judges at the Court of Appeal will consider their case following a defeat at the High Court in London in August.
Mrs Maguire’s husband Don, children and nephews wanted Mr Justice Holroyde to order the decision taken by assistant West Yorkshire coroner Kevin McLoughlin to be reconsidered.
But the judge dismissed their application for judicial review.
The 61-year-old teacher was stabbed in the back by 15-year-old Will Cornick as she taught a Spanish class at Corpus Christi Catholic College in Leeds in April 2014.
Cornick was later sentenced to life with a minimum term of 20 years.
An inquest into Mrs Maguire’s death is due to take place before a jury at Wakefield Coroner’s Court on November 13.
Mr Justice Holroyde said when he announced his decision: “I have much sympathy for the claimants, and I fully understand their reasons for wishing to pursue this line of inquiry.”
But he said he was “unable to accept the submission that the assistant coroner reached a decision which was so seriously flawed as to be… unreasonable”.
During the High Court hearing, counsel Nick Armstrong told the judge it was the only occasion on which a teacher had been killed by a pupil in a British classroom and the family were anxious “that all the lessons that can be learned from this enormous tragedy are learned”.
Yogi Amin, a partner at law firm Irwin Mitchell who represents Ann’s family, said: “This appeal represents the…
Martin Luther changed the world with his 95 Theses in 1517. (Ferdinand Pauwels/Public Domain)
On Oct. 31, 1517, Martin Luther had no idea that he was about to become a world-changer. He wrote his 95 Theses simply to spark an intellectual debate among church scholars.
What he did was ignite a movement, after which the church and the entire world would never be the same. It is this crucial moment in history we celebrate today—the 500th anniversary of the Protestant Reformation.
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