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This edition is sponsored by Compassion International |
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Cities Church in Minnesota isn’t the only church to experience acts of aggression in sacred spaces. |
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Emotions don’t just happen to you, Myles Werntz writes in a review of a new book that explores early Christian thought on emotions. |
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N. T. Wright doesn’t seem to like the word heaven. |
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Marvin Olasky shares his testimony of leaving communism and finding Christ. |
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On The Bulletin this week: Secretary of State Marco Rubio’s address to Europe and the disappearance of Nancy Guthrie. |
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From contributor Megan Fowler: Reporting breaking news is not my specialty as a journalist. I like to sit with the news for a little while, pray over it, and ask related questions about what happened. I think of my coverage as following behind the main story, helping readers put the pieces in context. |
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In considering the protest at Cities Church in Minneapolis, sitting with the news led me to wonder how often churches are the target of protests, which led me to discover that the Family Research Council tallies acts of aggression against churches. From there, it was not hard to find recent examples of churches that have been set on fire, vandalized, and even turned into sites of bloodshed. |
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Not every church fire is arson, and church shootings are often the result of domestic disputes or mental health crises rather than anti-Christian hatred. For each story I included, I discovered several churches that experienced the loss of a building due to faulty wiring or some other accident. I was struck by just how common it is for congregants to scrub off graffiti, sweep up glass from smashed windows, or look at charred remains of their church and ask, "Now what?" We often have to wait until the news cycle has moved on to find out the complicated motives for these kinds of attacks. |
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Pastors, do you want to grow your global missions impact? It can be difficult to forge new partnerships and cast vision in your church, but Compassion is here to help. Child sponsorship offers a simple, proven global missions model that helps churches build a culture of generosity and practically live out the Great Commission. |
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Today in Christian History |
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February 17, 1889: Former White Stockings baseball player Billy Sunday preaches his first evangelistic sermon in Chicago. By the time he died in 1935, he had preached to an estimated 100 million people, and about 1 million "walked the sawdust trail" to become Christians at his invitation. |
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Around the world, Christians live out their calling in many ways, including in athletics. These six Olympic athletes have used their global platform as an opportunity to share the gospel.…
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A recent story from Canada demonstrates the grim reality of euthanasia: A husband suffering from "caregiver burnout" brought his wife to the emergency room. She’d gone back and forth about wanting…
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Was Abraham Lincoln a Christian? The book Abraham Lincoln, The Christian (1913) claims he was. Contemporary Lincoln biographer Allen Guelzo said in 2000, "He was not." It’s a hard question: Lincoln was a…
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A note was scratched out in longhand on a short sheet of paper imprinted with the heading "Memo from the desk of CARL F. H. HENRY" and attached to a newspaper clipping…
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When Jesus taught, he used parables. The kingdom of God is like yeast, a net, a pearl. Then and today, to grasp wisdom and spiritual insight, we need the concrete. We need stories. In this issue of Christianity Today, we focus on testimony—the stories we tell, hear, and proclaim about God’s redemptive work in the world. Testimony is a personal application of the Good News. You’ll read Marvin Olasky’s testimony from Communism to Christ, Jen Wilkin’s call to biblical literacy, and a profile on the friendship between theologian Miroslav Volf and poet Christian Wiman. In an essay on pickleball, David Zahl reminds us that play is also a testament to God’s grace. As you read, we hope you’ll apply the truths of the gospel in your own life, church, and neighborhood. May your life be a testimony to the reality of God’s kingdom. |
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