1| Franklin Graham’s Challenges Maine: Take Your Faith with You | BGEA
Guts.
With unprecedented laws being passed, persecution growing and political correctness at the forefront, Franklin Graham says this is what’s lacking today—the boldness to take a stand for what’s right.
“God’s standards are being stripped,” he told a crowd of 3,200 at the State Capitol Park in Augusta, Maine, on Tuesday. “Today, we need men and women who will honor God.”
But not just on Sunday at church or at a prayer rally with other Christians—in everyday life and especially at the ballot box.
“[Our Founding Fathers] wanted us to be free to worship the God we choose, but they never intended for us to keep our faith out of government,” Franklin Graham said. “When they went into the Capitol—they took their faith with them.”
So why not take your faith to go?
2| Joe the Apologetics Rapper: From Drugs to Redemption | CBN
Meet Joe Salant. His tale is one of drugs, prison, rap music, politics, the religion of secularism, redemption and of course, the almighty Jesus Christ in the center of it all. He has quite the story to tell.
Currently, he’ part of the American Renewal Project team with the goal of getting pastors and the church on fire and engaged when it comes to fighting for Judeo-Christian values here in America.
But how he got to that point is pretty cool. Have a look at this week’s Brody File spotlight piece.
3| Rod Dreher: We Have Been Warned |The American Conservative
***This pieces has been making the rounds this week, for good reason. The author lives in Louisiana, and he thinks through a future scenario of natural disasters occurring in a vacuum of robust faith-based relief efforts.
Here in the flood zone of south Louisiana, you would be hard-pressed to find a single church or Christian organization (like the school community of which I’m a part) that isn’t in some way helping flood victims. I’m not talking about simply giving money. I’m talking about doing sacrificial work to help those who are helpless. I watched a report on NBC News last night about what we’re going through here, and was struck by the enormous distance between what they showed on that short clip, and the reality that people here see every day. It is much, much worse than most Americans know (see this for one glimpse, and imagine this multiplied by tens of thousands). The need is so great that there is no way this or any government could respond effectively to it on their own.
It’s also true that civil society couldn’t handle it on its own either. We need both — and that’s what we’re getting here. Istrouma Baptist Church, for example, is one of the biggest churches in the city, and has opened its campus as a staging area for relief operations (if you want to help, click here to find out what you can do). The work of the local churches, both big and small, in bringing desperately needed relief to the suffering is irreplaceable.
I was thinking about this yesterday, and thinking about how to many Americans, the thing most important to them about churches like those in this conservative part of America is that they (the churches) hold “bigoted” attitudes about LGBTs. In the years to come, those churches will be forced to pay a significant penalty for holding those views. Some people say that loss of tax-exempt status, which is what many progressives would like to see happen to dissident churches, will be no big deal. Why should their tax dollars go to subsidize bigotry? they reason.
It will be a very big deal. …continued
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