| | Michael Brown talks deconstructionist movement | | Curated for you byCP Editors | | Good afternoon! It's Monday, April 24, and today's headlines include an interview with Dr. Michael Brown, details on the North Carolina man who shot a 6-year-old and her parents, and remarks made during a legacy celebration service for Dr. Charles Stanley. | | During an interview with The Christian Post, author and radio host Dr. Michael Brown discussed his latest book, which aims to reach out to Christians who are doubting their beliefs or "deconstructing their faith" to show them why they should remain in the faith. In Why So Many Christians Have Left the Faith (Charisma House), Brown examines the reasons for the increase of religiously unaffiliated Americans and how to respond to these challenges. Full Story. | | P.S.Get rewarded for sharing our newsletters! Sign-up for the CP referral program—the more you share, the more you earn. Scroll to the bottom of this newsletter to get started today! |
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| NC man who shot 6-year-old previously arrested for assault, kidnapping | | A North Carolina man arrested in Florida last week for shooting at a 6-year-old girl and her parents after a basketball rolled into his yard was arrested months earlier and charged with kidnapping and attacking his girlfriend with a hammer. Robert Louis Singletary, 24, turned himself into the Hillsborough County Sheriff's Office in Tampa last Thursday after fleeing North Carolina and appeared in court on Friday. Read more. | | Report: As cancel culture rises, so does the push to censor professors | | While just four professors faced censorship attempts in 2000, that figure jumped to 213 instances in 2021, per a report from the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression. Sanction attempts from 2020 to 2022 accounted for 47% of total censorship efforts since 2000. The push to get college professors fired for their views coincides with the rise of "cancel culture," with FIRE Director of Faculty Outreach Komi Frey explaining, "Vocal, dogmatic minorities on the left and the right are trying to restrict the range of acceptable ideas in institutions of higher education, and this should alarm us all." Read more. | | Street preacher fights restraining order over social media posts | | Attorneys with The Rutherford Institute are asking the Oklahoma Supreme Court to overturn a five-year restraining order a judge granted to a lesbian couple who complained that a street preacher’s social media posts were harassing and threatening. Rich Penkoski, who runs Warriors for Christ, spoke out against a church in Bartleville’s support for same-sex marriages and drag shows with children in attendance. In one post, Penkoski shared the church's public photo of the same-sex wedding of the lesbian couple and cited several verses, including Romans 1:32. Read more. | | How can you help kids struggling with porn addiction? Expert weighs in | | Christian family expert Adam Holz says that youth struggling with a porn addiction can benefit from a loving, parental connection and a relationship with God. During an interview with CP, Holz—the director of Focus on the Family's PluggedIn publication—explained why there's no "one-size-fits-all strategy" for helping teens struggling with porn addiction. Holz stressed the importance of relationship-building and teaching children about God's love, saying there must be an "embrace of truth," which might include limited access to screens as families "re-embrace healthy and Godly choices in this area." Read more. |
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| Evangelism myth No. 1: You have to build a relationship first | | Dare 2 Share Ministries International's Greg Stier says it's a misconception among Christians that they must wait until they've built a strong friendship with a person before they witness to them. While relationships are important and believers should not be pushy, waiting for just the "right" time may result in that time never coming at all, he cautions. Read Stier's tips for evangelizing here. | | 'Nefarious' gets demons right | | Christian apologist and author Robin Schumacher reviews the film "Nefarious," which centers on the topic of demon possession. Schumacher, who says the movie is worth a watch, concludes it "does a good job of reminding us of just how cunning the devil's evil can be and how dull we can be to it even when it's staring us in the face." Read more. |
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| Evans, Swindoll, Trump pay respect to Charles Stanley | | Pastors Tony Evans and Chuck Swindoll, as well as former President Donald Trump, were among those who paid their respects to the late Charles Stanley at a legacy celebration at Stanley's First Baptist Church of Atlanta on Saturday. "His influence is not just for the time he was here, but should long outlive that time because the Word of God was so poignant and so potent that the truth will keep marching on," Evans declared. Read more remarks here. | | In Tennessee, 264 churches leave the UMC | | The United Methodist Church's Holston Conference in Tennessee has approved the departure of 264 churches from the denomination amid its ongoing schism over homosexuality. More than 1,800 congregations left the denomination last year. Read more. |
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| Christian rapper KB: Secular music teaches young people to 'hate Jesus' | | During an interview with Christian Headlines, Christian hip-hop artist KB said secular hip-hop and rap music teach young people to "hate Jesus." The Dove Award-winning artist explained that hip-hop is the most listened-to genre in the U.S., including by children in the "suburbs" and those in the "upper class," and asserted that the messages impressionable young people hear in secular lyrics are opposed to the Gospel. He encouraged parents of children and teens to embrace Christian alternatives, saying, "Let's return to that era of seeing Christian hip-hop as a powerful way that we might bring revival." Read more. | | | | | | | | Thank you for spending part of your day with us. We look forward to seeing you again tomorrow! -- CP Editors |
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