| U.S. | | Poll reveals young Americans focusing New Year's resolutions on God | | A new survey from Lifeway Research has revealed that a relationship with God is among the three most common subjects of New Year's solutions, especially among younger Americans. Approximately half of Christians who attend a worship service at least four times a month said they've made a resolution about their relationship with God, while just 20% of those who attend less than once per month have done so. Lifeway's Scott McConnell pointed to the Covid-19 pandemic as a potential reason for the focus on God, saying it "may have forced or encouraged more people to make changes outside of the annual reminder a new year brings." Click the image to view the other top resolution findings from the research. |
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| U.S. | | Sheriff says 'no' to removing Bible verse from office | | North Carolina Sheriff Jody Greene is gaining national attention for refusing to remove a Bible verse from a wall at his office. Greene has cited the need for "more Jesus" as the reason for his decision not to comply with the demands of a leading atheist legal organization to take it down. The sheriff took to Facebook to explain his reasoning, writing, "This is a political ploy. Some want a person that they can control. Companies spend thousands of dollars on motivational classes, to come up with motivational slogans. My motivation comes from the greatest motivational speaker of all time, Jesus Christ." |
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| Opinion | | Op-ed: The fall of the ‘Evil Empire’ | | "I have been shocked by the almost complete lack of media attention to one of the most significant and extraordinary events of the 20th century — the collapse and fall of the Soviet Union on Christmas Day, 1991," writes Christian Post Executive Editor Richard D. Land. In this article, Land reflects on the events leading up to and during the Cold War and urges people to both celebrate the anniversary of the collapse of the Soviet Union and to "also draw inspiration and encouragement in order to face an even greater peril to world freedom and American independence — Communist China, which is already a greater economic threat than the Soviet Union ever was." |
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| Living | | Ex-gay married father of 3 talks God, overcoming temptation | | Brian Wheelock will never forget the day he wrote what he calls his covenant with God. After 10 years of living a gay lifestyle, Wheelock put pen to paper, expressing his vow to put his love for Jesus before his earthly desires and temptations. In this interview, Wheelock details his struggles with temptation and sin and how writing out this covenant changed his life for good. “It was not a covenant to become straight. That wasn’t the point of it. It was a covenant to follow Christ wholeheartedly, … to die to myself of all the desires that I had that were not godly whatever they were, including and specifically this,” he explains. Click to read. |
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