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Slavery and the Bible: What are the rules?

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Owning slaves. It’s an old idea. But why doesn’t the Bible forbid it, explicitly? The word “servant” in the Bible could be translated as “slave” in most cases. People did not pay servants, they just owned them, and provided for their basic needs. Slavery was abolished, in the United States, on January 1, 1863. In Russia, about 23 million serfs were liberated, in 1861. Now, it is illegal everywhere to own slaves, although human trafficking by criminals is still a huge problem. The abolition movement in North America was dominated by Christians like the Quakers, and the revival preacher Charles Finney, who banned slave owners from taking communion in his church. Those Bible-reading people hated slavery and worked to end it, everywhere. On the other side, some Christian ministers argued that slavery was good for society, and God supported it. They challenged the abolitionists to find any place in the Bible where slavery was forbidden, by God. I’m glad we don’t have those arguments today, but critics of the Bible, and of Christians who read …

Proposed Oregon legislation would allow homeless people to sue property owners if they harass the homeless or ask them to leave

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Oregon Democrats have presented a bill in the state legislature, the Right to Rest Act, that would legally allow homeless people to set up camps on public and private property, Fox News reports. But the legislation doesn’t stop there. If passed the homeless person would have the right to sue the owner of the property for $1,000 if the owner tries to remove their tent or harass the homeless person in any way. If passed the legislation basically decriminalizes these encampments in a state that is overrun by this type of behavior, which is negatively impacting people’s lives. Fox News reports: “I love Portland, and I love where I live,” Portland homeowner Jacob Adams told “Fox & Friends” in February in a plea to elected officials to do something about a homeless encampment next to his house, where fires and drug activity have terrorized his family.  “I’m asking you to please do something, so the people of the city feel safe.” Armand Martens, an 83-year-old Vietnam veteran who also lives next to Adams, told a …

A Jihadist embraces Christ, after God speaks to him through several dreams

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In an interview with a One For Israel Ministry, an Islamic Jihadist named Kareem shared how he converted to Christianity after he dreamed about Jesus for three consecutive nights, God TV reports. Kareem had been raised a strict Muslim. He studied and memorized the Koran and believed he was called to wage war against the Christians and the Jews. All aspects of his life revolved around Islam, but that changed when he saw an internet ad that posed the question: “Do you love Allah?” Thinking it was a Muslim ad, he clicked on it and ended up on the web page of a Christian ministry, that told him about Jesus and the Bible. After spending time on the website, for the first time in his life, Kareem was questioning Islam. A short time later, Kareem was outside, and he looked at the sky, and prayed, perhaps without fully understanding who he was praying to: “I looked at the sky and I said, ‘You know what, You are so big for me. I cannot find You. …

Actor Chris Pratt explains the difference between goats and sheep

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In an interview with Drew Barrymore on her talk show, Hollywood actor Chris Pratt shared how he met his wife, Katherine, the daughter of Arnold Schwarzenegger while attending church. He saw her sitting a few pews away and wondered who she was, God TV reports. But what I found intriguing in the interview was Pratt’s explanation of the difference between goats and sheep. Pratt now owns a farm on which he has both sheep and goats and their reaction to a car stereo helped Pratt understand the parable in Matthew 25:31-46, where Christ talks about the two animals. In the parable, the sheep refer to people who hear Christ’s voice, the Good Shepherd and follow the Lord. The goats referred to self-centered people who refuse to listen and only did what was best for them. Pratt saw the difference after a stereo fell out of a truck on his farm. The sheep were actually scared of it and refused to go near the stereo. The goats on the other hand were intrigued by this new …

Minnesota Democrats want to develop a bias list to log people’s thoughts

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If passed, a new bill being debated in the Democrat-controlled Minnesota Legislature that would see the establishment of a bias list. This government controlled bias list would be used to log alleged comments by people that are not considered hate speech or crimes, but which someone doesn’t like, Fox News reports. According to the article, people would be able to report another person’s alleged verbal comments, real or imagined, resulting in them being potentially added to the government’s list. In an interview with Fox News, Republican Rep. Walter Hudson is concerned that the amendment known as House File 181 would threaten religious liberty in that state. “It seems very clear, based upon their focus on motivation, that they’re more concerned about what’s going on in people’s heads, which is protected speech, and that’s thoughtcrime,” Hudson told Fox News. If these thought crimes are not illegal, one would have to ask the more obvious question: what is motivating Minnesota’s Democrat government to log comments it doesn’t like. What is the purpose of this bias list? READ: …

‘New York Post’ columnist suggests Gen Z is starting to return to God

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There was an interesting article in the New York Post recently on how Gen Z is starting to return to God. Also known as zoomers, Gen Z are generally those born between 1997 and 2012, (13 to 25 years of age). This is based on two surveys one taken recently by the Springtide Research Institute, which revealed that one third of those between the ages of 18 to 25, believe in God or a higher. Though these are abysmal numbers, the good news is that it is up nearly 25% from a similar poll in 2021. Writing for the New York Post, Carrie Sheffield explains: This is up from about one-quarter in 2021, noted The Wall Street Journal’s Clare Ansberry, writing on polling data from the Springtide Research Institute. Ansberry reported that in the age of COVID-fueled isolation and canceled dreams, young adults, theologians and church leaders “attribute the increase in part to the need for people to believe in something beyond themselves after three years of loss.” As a recovered agnostic baptized in December …

Do Not Grieve the Holy Spirit!

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By Rick Renner

Many years ago, when I first studied the word “grieve” in Ephesians 4:30, I ran to my bookshelf and pulled out my Greek New Testament to discover exactly what the word “grieve” meant. I found that this word was taken from the Greek word lupete. This surprised me, because the word lupete is from the word lupe, which denotes a pain or grief that can only be experienced between two people who deeply love each other.

Democrat lawmaker in Arizona accused of swiping Bibles and hiding them

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KTVK-TV is alleging that an Arizona Democrat politician, Rep Stephanie Stahl Hamilton, has been accused of taking Bibles in the legislature’s member-only lounge and hiding them, The Blaze reports. Apparently, there were reports that Bibles placed inside the lounge were disappearing, and the legislature’s security team was sent in to investigate. And they did this by installing a secret video camera to discover what was going on. The Blaze reports what they found out: Sure enough, they weren’t just disappearing into the ether. Resulting video shows Democrat state Rep. Stephanie Stahl Hamilton pilfering two Bibles in just minutes, KTVK said. […] The House’s security team found one Bible “buried in the members-only lounge furniture,” the station said. And the other? Believe it or not, KTVK said Good Book #2 was located in the “community refrigerator.” And if that wasn’t bizarre enough, it seems that Stahl is actually an ordained Presbyterian Minister. READ: Democrat lawmaker caught on video swiping Bibles from state House lounge — then she apparently hid them. It gets even weirder.

Canada: Prime Minister Justin Trudeau rewrites COVID history

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Over the years, archaeologists have made an interesting discovery about the Egyptian pharaohs. If a new pharaoh didn’t like a previous pharaoh, he sent out workers to scrape off any mention of the previous pharaoh’s name in monuments, steles, columns, carvings, and drawings. Essentially the Pharaoh was eliminating this previous pharaoh from the historical record. He was rewriting history. Some suggest that Canada’s Prime Minister, Justin Trudeau, is essentially doing the same thing. With more news coming out about the side effects of the vaccines, Trudeau is now denying he forced anyone to get a COVID vaccine. PJ Media provides more information: Not only did Trudeau mandate vaxxes for all government workers, but he also repeatedly denounced the unvaxxed as killers and sicced the police and his state media dogs on peaceful truckers protesting injection mandates just to earn a living. He smeared them, without evidence, of course, as “racists” and “misogynists.” If targeting a worker’s livelihood as a leverage point to coerce him into getting injected is not considered “force,” what is? READ: WATCH: …

The Holy Spirit is moving

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As we watch what is happening politically, culturally and even spiritually, as the Satanic Temple in Boston MA holds what it’s billing as the world’s largest satanic conference at the end of April, it would be easy to get discouraged. But in spite of all that is happening, the Holy Spirit is moving in America. When Jesus told Peter that he was the rock on which the church would be built, the Lord added these words “and the gates of hell will not prevail against it” (Matthew 16:18). Though gates speak of resistance and hindrances, the Greek word, katischuō, translated prevail means simply ‘to over power’ or ‘overcome.’ Whatever barriers, Satan is putting up to hinder the Kingdom of God, they will not stand. Aside from the revival that broke out earlier this year at Asbury College, in an article for CBN, Benjamin Gill highlighted several social media posts and articles reporting how the Holy Spirit is moving across the US. Below are a few of Gill’s examples: Holy Spirit is moving in Cincinnati Pastor …