They call it “The Mandalay Massacre.”
A 64-year-old man armed with more than 10 assault rifles shot and killed at least 58 people in what is being called the largest mass shooting in modern U.S. history. At last count, more than 500 were injured in the tragedy.
The question that comes to mind at a time like this is, why? Why did God allow such a horrible thing to happen?
A Barna Poll asked, “If you could ask God one question and you knew He would give you an answer, what would you ask?” The m
As President Trump begins his time in office, I am sharing some practical and biblically-based ways in which he can help black America as well as some practical and biblically based ways black America can be of help to him.
So far, we have named the following ways President Trump can help black America:
1. President Trump Can Help Black America by Setting a Godly Example
2. President Trump Can Help Black America by Not Circumventing the Legitimate Leadership of the Black Community; Rather he Sho
Octavia Spencer stars as “Papa” in the film adaptation of the popular Christian novel, “The Shack.” (Lionsgate)
The depiction of God as a woman has some Christian critics up in arms. But is it really that serious?
Another day, another controversy.
The Shack, a film based on a New York Times bestseller of the same name, is stirring controversy among evangelicals because a black woman—Octavia Spencer—is playing God.
Is this a major overreaction?
The fictional book written by William P. Youn
1. Motherhood is evidence of God’s mercy.
The Bible teaches that God made mankind to be his image bearers. He gave Adam and Eve the royal task of filling the earth with more image bearers of the one, true King.
When our first parents disobeyed God in the garden of Eden, all of their descendants fell into sin along with them. Because of our sin, we all deserve God’s just wrath. Life, therefore, is an undeserved gift from God, never to be presumed or rejected. Motherhood is evidence that God i
The Rev. Franklin Graham has slammed The New York Daily News’ front cover declaring that “God isn’t fixing this” in the wake of Wednesday’s mass shooting in California, and argued that prayer is “direct access” to God.
“They have the audacity to criticize politicians who had publicly offered prayers and asked for God’s comfort following the killings, calling them ‘cowards who could truly end gun scourge.’ Shame on them!” Graham posted on his Facebook page Thursday night.
“I hope New Yorkers s
Former supermodel Tracy Trinita converted to Christianity, left the industry to study at Oxford and became a pastor. She now travels the world sharing the gospel.
Originally from a small village in Bali, Trinita’s life changed when she won a modelling competition and moved to New York to pursue a career in the industry aged just 15. Initially, she was lured in by the wealth and glamour that modelling promised.
“I thought that if I had more money I would be happier, so I pursued modelling fo
Ever since Meagan Good and DeVon Franklin jumped the broom back in 2012, folks have been critical of the Think Like A Man star’s outfits. While Good’s been in the entertainment business since she was a kid, her critics seemed to expect the sexy actress to overhaul her wardrobe once she married Franklin, a Seventh Day Adventist minister.
“A lot of people came for me, and it was really hard to process,” Good said during an ESSENCE Festival empowerment panel on love and marriage.
Though Good’s
Have you been feeding your soul with spiritual junk food? (Tim Reckmann/Flickr/Creative Commons)
“For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine, but according to their own desires, because they have itching ears, they will heap up for themselves teachers” (2 Tim. 4:3).
Have you ever asked yourself or quietly wondered why so many in the Western church today lack a strong devotion and dedication to God? Why are there so many professing Christians who still pursue the lusts an
LeToya Luckett is glorifying God after earning a role in the NBC drama “Love Is a Four Letter Word.”
Luckett, the 34-year-old singer and actress, will co-star in the drama as Tandi, a happily married woman who is experience issues with trying to have her second child. The show explores three diverse couples dealing with modern marriage while exploring themes of race, sexuality and gender roles, according to The Hollywood Reporter.
Colin Donnell will star as Tandi’s husband Sean, with the
Christian NBA player Jeremy Lin admitted he struggles with humility. (nba.com)
Jeremy Lin has admitted that he has had one of the toughest seasons of his basketball career but now vows to find joy in God despite his circumstances.
Lin, the 26-year-old Los Angeles Lakers guard, took to his personal website www.jlin7.com to admit that he was disappointed in his season. Still, the Christian athlete acknowledged that God was present during his trials.
“At times, it has felt like the barriers we
Dr Uma Ukpai, the president and founder of Uma Ukpai Evangelistic Association, has said poor men of God did not receive divine calling.
He also told Daily Independent that it was untrue that people resorted to Church establishment out of joblessness.
According to Ukpai, “Jesus calls church business. He said, ‘I am about my father’s business’. He called church work business and what is business? Business is investment plus gain, minus loss. In church planting, no pastor can collect offering w
Listen to Dr. Tony Evans speak on Ferguson and race relations from God’s perspective.
Hello, this is Dr. Tony Evans with the Urban Alternative, and I know you, like myself, are concerned about the racial climate in our country, today, and the recent incidents in Ferguson, Missouri, have demonstrated that even though we may have come a long way, we still have a long way to go; and it demonstrates clearly that this issue of racial division is just below the s
Award-winning singer and producer Pharrell Williams (Photo: Rex Features)
Popular singer and music producer Pharrell Williams recently revealed that he believes in God, asserting that it’s “incredibly arrogant” to deny the existence of a spiritual being.
I believe in God but I also believe in the universe…and I believe in that innate ability to make decisions and to exercise our feelings as human beings,” the “Happy” singer told Stylist magazine.
“How do you see all the stars and think there
Christian NBA player Jeremy Lin admitted he struggles with humility. (nba.com)
Christian NBA player Jeremy Lin recently opened up about the sins he struggles with.
The 25-year-old Lakers guard admitted he is not as humble as some people may believe in a question-and-answer session on Facebook during what he called Fan Appreciation Week.
“I’m not humble. Pride is [the] greatest sin I struggle with,” Lin wrote. “But I’d say as I get older, go through more experiences in life and face tougher
A popular rapper who admitted to being worshiped by fans and once claimed to have ‘found God’ and professedly ‘hopped to Christianity’ has released a profanity-laced video claiming that he has fallen away from the faith.
“If Hell is truly Your pit of fire and I get thrown in it, I’ma probably regret the fact that I ever wrote this [expletive],” Marcus Jamal Hopson, better known to fans as “Hopsin,” raps in a new song called Ill Mind of Hopsin 7. “I hopped to Christianity so strongly, then
A poster from ‘Noah’ (Facebook)
Christian author and spoken-word artist Jefferson Bethke took to social media to express his enthusiasm for the upcoming “Noah” film. He also expressed his confusion on why Christians have been so critical of the movie’s fidelity to the Bible.
“Does anyone else find it fascinating that Son of God got little backlash, because it was marketed to Christians & churches, yet Noah isn’t marketed to the Church and is getting a ton of backlash? Even though both took s
A scene from “Son of God” (Photo: Casey Crafford, 20th Century Fox)
The first half of Son of God features an upbeat and kindly Jesus spreading the good word in familiar, if occasionally over-simplified, biblical phraseology.
Then things get bloody — though not quite as graphic as in 2004′s The Passion of the Christ — when Jesus is seized, beaten and crucified. The production values are modest and the special effects uneven in a repurposed and condensed version (** out of four; rated PG-13; ope
