Stand Up for the Truth

Kudos to Calvary Chapel for standing up against Palestinian activism: “Christian Palestinianists” Unable to Establish Beachhead Within Calvary Chapel Movement In a dramatic showdown last week within the Calvary Chapel movement, the leadership of the California-based association of churches rebuked an event held at North Coast Calvary Chapel that featured a presentation by Palestinian activists. [...]

Today we’re catching up on the latest news headlines that everyone – no matter what your faith background – is talking about. Here’s the thing though: Often times the news you and I talk about isn’t the same as what the news media is reporting. In fact sometimes the mainline news outlets are silent on [...]

Reprinted from the LightHouseTrails Blog: Yesterday, we posted an article titled “Calvary Chapel Breached” by journalist Jim Fletcher. The article focused on a Calvary Chapel church (North Coast) in California and its invitation of a Palestinian man named Sami Awad. Fletcher’s article showed the implications of this invitation by Calvary Chapel and how this indicates the [...]

Have we lost our love for the Word of God? A thoughtful article by Ligonier Ministries: The Christian Club Many American churches are in a mess. Theologically they are indifferent, confused, or dangerously wrong. Liturgically they are the captives of superficial fads. Morally they live lives indistinguishable from the world. They often have a lot of [...]

Christians, we all know the world is falling apart and unfortunately so are many of our church organizations. A new poll shows most of us value the Bible. We own several copies and we say that it is a sacred text. But do we read it? Not quite. We’re going to share the numbers with [...]

Several news outlets including USA Today and WND are reporting on a stunning announcement today by GOP Rep. Paul Ryan, who reportedly has changed his views and now says he believes gay couples should be able to adopt children: Asked at a town-hall-style meeting Monday in Wisconsin about the issue, Ryan said he would “vote [...]

What does this current administration think about Christians? That we are “monsters.” The Pentagon’s new “religious tolerance guru” is none other than anti-religious extremist Mikey Weinstein, the man who wants to remove Christianity from the military. And thanks to the Obama administration, his Military Religious Freedom Foundation now has the power and backing to do [...]

Engaging with the culture without embracing it is getting much harder for Christians, especially when the Church itself is looking more and more like the world. With 70 percent of our youth leaving the Church – and their faith – once they graduate high school, you have to wonder why. (See Top 10 Reasons Our [...]

Walt Tutka, a New Jersey substitute teacher who was terminated after he handed a student his Bible, filed a complaint against the Phillipsburg School District for religious discrimination and retaliation with the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. In the fall of 2012, Tutka quoted the Bible while speaking to a student coming last through a [...]

There are a lot of Masons who attend Christian churches of every denomination. Masons number around six million worldwide, with nearly two million in the United States.  What is Free Masonry, where did it come from, and is it religious in nature, or just another fraternity of people who gather to do good works in [...]