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President Joe Biden quoted the Bible and asked for prayers for families who lost loved ones in the mass shooting at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas, where at least 19 children and one teacher were gunned down on Tuesday morning.
As many as 19 students and one teacher are dead after a gunman entered an elementary school in Texas and opened fire. Texas Gov. Greg Abbott said the shooter was an 18-year-old student at Uvalde High School who was shot and killed at the scene.
There's an issue festering inside the American church that many believe is more damaging to faith than atheism, and it's called "apatheism."
Leaders in the Southern Baptist Convention publicly apologized to victims of sexual abuse within the denomination and vowed to make public a private database of offenders in response to an explosive report detailing allegations of sexual misconduct and a cover-up.
We have all been devastated by the unimaginable news that 19 innocent children and one teacher have been shot and killed on the campus of Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas. The heart of America was ripped out this sad day. This is every parent's worst nightmare and our hearts are all breaking, but none are feeling the pain that those families who lost their precious loved ones are experiencing right now.
Or, viewed from another angle, rather than Christian leaders equipping their people to swim against the tide of the culture, they too are being carried by the current of the age. And that, in turn, means that the light is not shining and the salt is not being salty.
From my experience, many people will promptly accuse me of compromise, unfaithfulness, complicity in abortion, and cowardice. But I suppose they would also have to make the same accusations about William Wilberforce.
The Church can be confident that it will be the final institution left standing, as all earthly governments dissolve at the return of Christ, and blow away into the wind like chaff. In other words, in the end, the Church wins. So, we should act like it now.
I believe that the current conversations regarding mass shootings, sexual harassment, sex trafficking, and slave labor should also lead us to dig down further and reexamine the abortion debate. All these issues are inexplicably connected through the implications of the imago Dei which should frame our view of the sanctity of human life, both pre-birth and post-birth.
When parents immerse their children in the Gospel, young hearts and minds are shaped for a lifetime of Christian discipleship. Thankfully, young children are capable of understanding and believing the Gospel.
In the foreword to worship leader Scott Box’s new book, "Heroic Disgrace," his cousin, Brian “Head” Welch, who co-founded the Grammy Award-winning band Korn, calls it “one of the best stories I’ve read in a long time.”
Taya Smith-Gaukrodger rose to fame as a member of Hillsong United and Hillsong Worship. On the heels of a pandemic and global church scandal, the artist is releasing a self-titled solo album.
A man who had served 33 years in prison for a murder he committed in 1987 has since helped lead hundreds of other inmates to faith in Jesus Christ through his work with a prison ministry.
