World Vision Reverses Decision To Hire Christians in Same-Sex Marriages
“What we are affirming today is there are certain beliefs that are so core to our Trinitarian faith that we must take a strong stand on those beliefs,” said Stearns. “We cannot defer to a small minority of churches and denominations that have taken a different position.”
The U.S. Puts ‘Moderate’ Restrictions on Religious Freedom
To get a sense of how the United States stacks up against other countries, take a look at Pew’s interactive chart of religious restrictions in the world’s 25 most populous countries from 2007 to 2010. If you select “2009” in the list of years at the top of the graph, find the circle representing the U.S., and then select “2010,” you’ll see a noticeable increase in the country’s level of religious hostility. The two axes represent two separate rankings: “government restrictions,” which is a tally of legal actions that have limited religious practice in some way; and “social attitudes,” which is a measure of negative or violent attitudes that citizens have expressed toward their religious peers.
12 Ways Christians Can be Less Mean
I’ve seen Christians I know act like jerks in a restaurant or grocery store. I consistently hear of bosses who serve smiling on Sunday but are mean to employees during the week.
It all has to hurt our witness as Christians.
Why I Would Never Force my Kids to go to Church
My son told me a few weeks into school that he didn’t like the teacher. He wasn’t getting excited enough about learning, and he didn’t really feel connected to the other kids in his class, so I told him he never had to go back to school again. Who wants to waste their time going somewhere where they aren’t being fulfilled?
We’ve never forced our daughter to stay off the road when playing. We don’t want to restrict her imagination. We allow her the freedom to make her own choices in life.
Have You Ever Had A Pastoral Visit?
Those reared in the medieval Roman church would have understood this anxiety. “What’s the priest doing at my door? Do I have the plague? Is it time for last rites?” Those today unfamiliar with “house visitation” may offer a similar response. Why can we do door-to-door evangelism, but we can’t talk to our own parishioners in their homes? Why can’t we ask people how they’re doing spiritually? Why is it seen as some sort of threat to “their personal relationship with Jesus”? I suppose it’s because we have a problem with being cared for spiritually.
Ten Things to Do During Suffering
I have noticed that, during dire times, we can hear our own words repeated back to us more easily than we can hear words from other people. So I hereby authorize my wife, children, and anyone else, to speak these things to me when my hardships are oppressive.
Praying Big encourages us to invest ourselves in prayer in a big way. Faith-full people are always big pray-ers. When we pour ourselves into prayer, God pours Himself into us.
Praying Big invites us to see our lives, our challenges, our opportunities, and our world through heaven’s eyes. Prayer changes our vision, our responses, and our attitudes because in prayer God changes us.
Here Are The 20 Craziest Fast Food Creations Ever Concocted
It seems like the fast food giants have been getting a little too creative with their promotional menu items lately. From pizza stuffed with hot dogs in the crust, to squid ink burgers, these fast food concoctions didn’t fail in either making me extremely hungry, or removing my appetite for any food altogether for the next 36 hours.
Here are 20 of the craziest fast food creations