| Wednesday, October 13, 2021 |
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| | The legal counsel for the Southern Baptist Convention has resigned less than a week after SBC Executive Committee members voted to waive attorney-client privilege during an investigation into the panel's handling of sexual abuse claims against churches. |
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| | A Georgia megachurch has requested an injunction against a regional body of the United Methodist Church, claiming that the denomination is unlawfully interfering with its plans to hold a vote on whether to disaffiliate with America's second-largest Protestant denomination. |
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| | Dino Rizzo, a member of the Church of the Highlands’ senior leadership team in Alabama, has been named as a defendant in a lawsuit filed by a former intern at Vibrant Church in Columbus, Mississippi. |
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| | Pastor and author John Piper, head of the influential theology website DesiringGod, said he believes non-Christian marriages are valid even though they "fall short" of God's purpose for marriage. |
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| | On Friday, leaders of 136 nations took actions that should send a chill up the spines of their citizens. |
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| | An upcoming comic book issue will profile a same-sex relationship between Superman’s son and a fellow journalist, making it the latest reintroduction of a well-established comic book character under the LGBT banner. |
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| | “Oh, that You would rend the heavens! That You would come down!” — Isaiah 64:1–2
On April 24th, 2021, an Indonesian submarine sank in the southern Pacific Ocean. The news reported that the crew may have run out of oxygen and quickly sank below the crush depth—the pressure on the outside was greater than the strength on the inside. It is thought that it went down quickly because of an internal leaking.
This parallels exactly what is happening in America today as waves of confusion and chaos overcome the masses. Many are being crushed by the external pressures of life because the strength on the inside (their relationship with God) is not greater than the pressure on the outside.
How can I be hopeful amid such darkness and depravity? |
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