(1) Trump to court evangelicals in talk at Liberty University (RNS)
(2) The future of the world’s most popular religion is African (The Economist)
(3a) Only on the Brody File: Ted Cruz to Meet Privately With Iowa Pastors (CBN)
(3b) In Tight Iowa Race, Ted Cruz Is Counting On Evangelical Voters (NPR)
Doc Ennenberg, a retired doctor, is 86 and has been a caucus organizer since 1964. He waited for Cruz Monday at a steakhouse in the town of Carroll to give him this warning: “You better make it. … I don’t wanna die without seeing a damn conservative in the White House.”
(4) VIDEO: Pastor Mark Dever on Ministering to Government Leaders (ERLC, via YouTube)
(5) Has Christianity Become a Coward’s Religion? by Bruce Frohnen (Crisis Magazine)
This is how religions die. To have lost so much ground among a people that once was overwhelmingly Christian, and to respond with embarrassment at the proselytizing of a tiny portion of one’s tiny flock, is a sign of terminal spiritual illness. It also, self-evidently, is precisely what nonbelievers and secularists want — namely, a quiet, untroubling Christian minority that will soon cease to exist altogether. This is where secularization naturally leads. When the faithful lose their voice, who will care what they believe? Who will join them, or even know that they exist?
In such times it is right to wonder whether Christianity really has become a religion filled with cowards. Christianity is not a coward’s religion, for its truth is hard, demanding self-denial and sacrifice in the face of earthly temptations out of simple love.
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