Archive for August 2009

Building the Third Temple in Jerusalem

Aug 31st, 2009 | By Marcus French | Category: Israel & The Jewish People, News

CBN reports on the Third Temple: [Link to Video]

Will we see the rebuilding of Solomon’s Temple in our own lifetime? What will the implications be on our prophetic expectation of an ingathering of Jews into the Kingdom prior to the Lord’s bodily appearing? Feel free to weigh in via comments below.

Tags: CBN, Islam, israel, Muslims, [...]



“Why Do More Miracles Happen in Africa?”

Aug 31st, 2009 | By Daniel Kolenda | Category: News, The Kingdom of God

Unbelief often infiltrates our hearts in the most covert ways. Sometimes we don’t even realize that it’s there. It is good from time to time to take stock of our own belief system to see what is based on God’s Word and what is simply something that we have heard repeated, even by godly leaders, and accepted as fact.

One of the most common questions that people ask me is, “Why do these incredible miracles happen in Africa but not in the [...]



Should We Use the Phrase “Radical Gay Agenda”?

Aug 30th, 2009 | By Marcus French | Category: News, Sexuality & Gender

The following is part of a question posed by a commenter named Ben on our God Has a Better Way article:
But I’m not so sure that using the term radical gay agenda is right, nor do I see it as beneficial to our cause. What if the use of such language is part of what [...]



Leonard Ravenhill on Evangelism and Revival

Aug 30th, 2009 | By Marcus French | Category: The Kingdom of God

Interview with Leonard Ravenhill from 1989: [Link to Video]
One quote from the video to take notice of:
The moral desolation in America and the stagnation in America is not due to the strength of Humanism, it’s because of the weakness of evangelism. People don’t get born again when they come to the altar. They come down [...]



NH court orders home-schooled child into government-run school

Aug 26th, 2009 | By Marcus French | Category: Law & Politics, News

Press Release from the Alliance Defense Fund:

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LACONIA, N.H. — An Alliance Defense Fund allied attorney filed motions with a New Hampshire court Monday asking it to reconsider and stay its decision to order a 10-year-old home-schooled girl into a government-run school in Meredith.
Although the marital master making recommendations to the court agreed the child is [...]



An Italian Pop Singer and Public Debate

Aug 21st, 2009 | By Marcus French | Category: Culture, News

A remarkable event happened earlier this year in Italy… a pop singer bucked the cultural norms that say that gay and lesbian individuals cannot change their sexual orientation, and made a public statement in support of ex-gay individuals, all on national television.
Roberto Marchesini shares this intriguing story here, and it is well worth a look.  [...]



Revolutionary Fascination

Aug 21st, 2009 | By Marc Thomas | Category: Revolution & Justice

The 56th thesis of Friedrich Nietzsche’s book “The Gay Science” (nothing to do with homosexuality of any kind) reads,

“When I think of the craving to do something, which continually tickles and spurs those millions of young Europeans who cannot endure their boredom and themselves, then I realise that they must have a craving to suffer [...]



Lutherans Approve Statement… What Does God Think?

Aug 20th, 2009 | By Marcus French | Category: News, The Kingdom of God

Lutheran leaders have approved a statement that has been described as being a move “toward a more welcoming view of homosexuality.”  According to the AP:
Delegates of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, meeting in Minneapolis, approved a “social statement on human sexuality” that acknowledges differing views on homosexuality. It says the ELCA is strong enough [...]



Can You Trust The Bible?

Aug 19th, 2009 | By Daniel Kolenda | Category: Scripture

Are you intimidated when so-called “Biblical Scholars” attack the trustworthiness of the Scriptures? To preach the Word of God with boldness requires confidence in its authority and it is upon this authority that our faith rests [...]



Affliction, Light & Consecration: Thoughts On True Interpretation

Aug 16th, 2009 | By Bryan Purtle | Category: Scripture

“…. no prophecy of Scripture is a matter of one’s own interpretation, for no prophecy was ever made by an act of the human will, but men moved by the Holy Spirit spoke from God.” -2 Pet. 1.20-21
Please hear this remarkable word from Nathaniel West:
In the hour of affliction we learn more of God’s word, [...]