Christian-based Television Network, TCT, has committed to abolishing $2.5 million of medical debt for 2,500 families across the United States.

“Across this country, there are people with medical debt and they simply don’t have any way to pay it,” TCT said in a press release, according to CBN. “Most of the people are living at a poverty level or below the poverty level and the situation is serious and hopeless for some.”

The statement notes that anyone from families to senior citizens or military veterans can be affected by “unforeseen illness leaving unsayable medical bills.”

It continues, “Medical costs are astronomical and a heavy burden to bear for someone who is already sick and struggling. Yet they have the added pressures of bill collectors calling, writing, and trying to collect. TCT saw this need and began to do something about it.”

Dr. Garth and Tina Coonce, president and founders of the network, spearheaded the idea to partner with a nonprofit called RIP Medical Debt. The organization has paid for over $800 million in debt for about 240,000 Americans and over $50 million specifically for veterans.

“Dr. Coonce heard about this particular non-profit organization and what they were doing. He contacted them and was impressed by their activities and decided this was a great need today for many less fortunate and hurting people,”…

Union Theological Seminary, which boasts its progressive theology, encouraged students to confess their sins to plants in chapel earlier this week.

“Together, we held our grief, joy, regret, hope, guilt and sorrow in prayer; offering them to the beings who sustain us but whose gift we too often fail to honor. What do you confess to the plants in your life?” a tweet from the seminary read, according to Faithwire.

Today in chapel, we confessed to plants. Together, we held our grief, joy, regret, hope, guilt and sorrow in prayer; offering them to the beings who sustain us but whose gift we too often fail to honor.

What do you confess to the plants in your life? pic.twitter.com/tEs3Vm8oU4

— Union Seminary (@UnionSeminary) September 17, 2019

The confessional, according to the seminary, was part of a class called “Extractivism: A Ritual/Liturgical Response.” The confessions were geared specifically towards harm committed against the environment.

“We are in the throes of a climate emergency, a crisis created by humanity’s arrogance, our disregard for Creation. Far too often, we see the natural world only as resources to be extracted for our use, not divinely created in their own right—worthy of honor, thanks and care,” the seminary said in its defense. “Churches have a huge role to play in this endeavor. Theologies that encourage humans to…

Evangelist Franklin Graham, an ardent supporter of President Donald Trump, is urging the commander-in-chief’s detractors to “give it a rest” following allegations that the president used foreign aid money to pressure Ukrainian officials to investigate the business dealings of former Vice President Joe Biden’s son. 

The most recent accusations against the president were leveled by a whistleblower who maintains that Trump repeatedly asked that Biden’s son, Hunter, be investigated during a July phone call with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky. Fox News, however, is reporting that a source close to the investigation says the whistleblower does not have “firsthand knowledge” of Trump’s conversation with Zelensky.

“I wish President @realDonaldTrump’s enemies would give it a rest. For 2 years all the American people heard was collusion. Not true. Then accusations seemed to come out of the woodwork by various women. Then all we heard was impeachment. Now it’s a whistleblower claim,” Graham, president of the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association, tweeted on Monday, adding, “President @realDonaldTrump was elected to do a job. Let’s pray for him, that God will give him wisdom to make the right decisions for the American people and to do his job well.”

I wish President @realDonaldTrump’s enemies would give it a rest. For 2…

Ashley Bratcher, the star of the PureFlix film released earlier this year, Unplanned, shared the inspirational news earlier this month at an “Evening for Life” banquet and fundraiser in Overland, Kansas that she herself was nearly aborted by her mother.

According to TheLeaven.org, Bratcher, who gave the keynote address at the annual event, also shared her rise from being a single mother on WIC and Medicaid to being cast in the role of Abby Johnson, who is, Bratcher declared, “one of the greatest pro-life activists of our time.”

“We could barely pay our bills, but we fought tooth and nail to get back on our feet so we could provide for our child,” Bratcher continued.

Then, in 2015 God put the word “prepare” on Bratcher’s heart, which, given the events that unfolded in her life that year, proved prophetic. “I chose that word because God had put it on my heart that he wanted to take me somewhere that I was not yet ready to go,” she said.

Bratcher would soon find out that that somewhere was the role of Abby Johnson in Unplanned. After getting the news that she had been cast to play Johnson, Bratcher told her mother, and that is when she found that she had almost been aborted.

“It was really a profound moment. You see, I had accepted this role to play one of the greatest pro-life activists of our time, never knowing I was…

A new report shows that some 35 million youths raised in Christian families will leave Christianity by the year 2050.

According to the Christian Post, Greg Stier – founder of the youth ministry Dare 2 Share – says the report, called “The Great Opportunity,” is a chance for Christians to “flip the switch.”

“How about not just slowing down the bleeding, what if there was a revival that flipped those stats?” he said. “That is what we are praying for. How do we flip the switch?”

He says to do so churches may need to rethink youth ministry.

“Youth ministry needs to be re-engineered to be Gospel-advancing and disciple-multiplying,” he said. “It is not about meetings but about the mission. Young people are longing for a cause that matters. So they need to be equipped and youth leaders need to be equipped to equip them.”

“There is nothing wrong with games and all that stuff, but they (youth groups) need to take it serious about the mission that God has put before us. I think we have to have a higher standard for youth ministry than fun, games, pizza and a 10-minute lesson.”

Dare 2 Share will host its third annual Dare 2 Share Live revival event on Oct. 12. The simulcast will be broadcast in more than 100 cities worldwide.

“Each of the cities’ youth groups come together and they’re equipped to share the Gospel,” Stier…

Popular Christian recording artist Lecrae has shared footage of himself being baptized in the Jordan River.

“Today we got baptized in the Jordan River. The one John baptized Jesus in… Getting baptized in it was an incredible experience for me,” he wrote on Instagram alongside a powerful video of the momentous occasion. “I love the Jordan because of all the symbolism it holds,” he added. “It was the border of the promised land. It was the picture of safety and security. Getting baptized in it was an incredible experience for me.”

The rapper went to eloquently explain the true meaning of baptism as a symbol of new creation and spiritual cleansing. Indeed, those who choose to get baptized are submerged underwater and resurface as having been cleansed by the blood of Christ. As the Apostle Peter wrote, “this water symbolizes baptism that now saves you also—not the removal of dirt from the body but the pledge of a clear conscience toward God. It saves you by the resurrection of Jesus Christ.” — 1 Peter 3:21.

Lecrae noted that the “Jewish ritual immersion in water is called a mikvah, which is a Hebrew word meaning gathering of waters.”

“Immersion in a mikvah also represents death and resurrection. When you come back out of the water, you come back to life as a new creation,” he explained.

Not stopping there, Lecrae continued to share a…