“Christianity is no call to pretend earthly nations can’t be great; rather, it’s a summons to recognize how much greater is the God far above them.”
David Mathis shares two reasons he’s humbled to be an American. https://t.co/R9jc12bi9h
“What we need most is not healing but a full and endless experience of the glory of God.”
John Piper meditates on the kind of love Jesus showed when he let Lazarus die. https://t.co/L5kheSk2yC
@Franklin_Graham If those white tents could talk they'd ask for a coffee break, but they keep pulling double shifts and saving lives. Hats off to the whole crew.
@Franklin_Graham@dayanar29 God bless you for all you are doing in my country. I have seen your amazing job in USA and many countries helping and giving hope. For real you show the love of Christ in everything you do. I’m so grateful you were able to show love and mercy to my Venezuelan people. Thank you🙏🏼
Continue to pray for the people of Venezuela. Many in the area around Caracas and La Guaira have gone more than a week without medical care because hospitals are damaged and overwhelmed with patients. Our Emergency Field Hospital has been open for two days and we have already treated 322 patients. John Barrett, the Chargé d'Affaires for the @usembassyve in Caracas, visited our team yesterday, and a few hours later, the hospital was visited by Venezuela’s Interim President Delcy Rodríguez. We were grateful they could each see the work that our teams of doctors, nurses, and other staff are doing in Jesus’ Name. We appreciate all that the U.S. government has done to help expedite and support our relief efforts on the ground in Venezuela.
The biblical reality is that suffering can be an expression of God's goodness. He's committed to using every tool at his disposal – including pain and trouble - to rescue us from sin and shape us into the likeness of his Son.
Read the headlines long enough and it can feel like darkness is winning. It isn't. The final page is already written. "In all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us" (Romans 8:37). The middle chapters may be hard, but the ending is sure — God wins, and so do those who are His. Hold onto that today.
Pastor has his church and home burned down by islamist mobs in Nigeria, they slaughtered 150 of his congregation.
No protests for Christians in Nigeria!
The UN remains silent!
In 1976, 82-year-old Norman Rockwell was asked to create a painting for America’s bicentennial.
Instead of something grand, he painted an aging artist carefully lettering a simple “Happy Birthday” banner across the Liberty Bell.
A quiet joke about growing older and about knowing simplicity is often the hardest thing to paint.
I start chapter 8 (Reject Destructive Media) in VBF w/a simple thesis: you can’t “sow” Doggystyle and “reap” the Huxtables. India Arie is facing backlash because too few leaders in our community today speak truthfully about how music both reflects & shapes cultural norms.
"When Christ came into the world, He did not come simply to be born. … His primary purpose was to die; to shed His blood as a substitute in your place and my place." —Billy Graham
Like bows drawn across strings of a violin create vibrations that continue long after the moment has passed, every act of faithfulness matters far more than we realize. Quiet generosity, unseen sacrifice, simple obedience—none is wasted in God’s economy. https://t.co/tbtIImkV5D
There’s a detail in the golden calf story that the Quran and the Bible flatly contradict — and it exposes which book protects its heroes.
Genesis… I mean Exodus 32. Who made the calf? AARON. The high priest. Moses’ own brother. He gathered the gold, shaped the idol, built an altar. Exodus 32:4-5. And gave the most pathetic excuse in Scripture: “I threw it in the fire, and out came this calf.” Exodus 32:24.
The Quran? Aaron is completely innocent. He tried to stop it. The blame falls on a mystery man, “al-Samiri” — the Samaritan. Surah 20:85-90.
Here’s the problem. The Samaritans didn’t exist in Moses’ day. Samaria wasn’t founded until King Omri built it — around 870 BC, some 500 years AFTER Moses. 1 Kings 16:24.
So the Quran clears the prophet’s brother and pins it on a people who wouldn’t exist for five centuries.
The Bible does the opposite. It nails its own high priest to the wall.
You know what that tells me? A book willing to expose Aaron isn’t protecting anyone’s reputation.
It’s telling the truth.
And that’s exactly the book I want telling me about my sin — and about the true High Priest, who “has no need to offer sacrifices for His own sins,” because He had none. Hebrews 7:26-27.
Aaron built the calf. Jesus bore the guilt for it.
Praise the Lord, Jesus Christ