Tag: faith
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Curse the Silence. The Posse Couldn’t Stone Her After All.
by Dennis Gladden, By Green Pastures, ©2026 (Jul. 22, 2026) — The posse had no time for pleasantries. “Teacher, this woman was caught in adultery, in the very act. The law commands us to stone her. But what do You say?”1 Jesus said nothing. They wanted His judgment. Jesus hadn’t come for judgment; He brought…
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Rahab Survived Jericho. Faith Like Hers Will Save Us, Too.
Rahab went beyond hearing the news. She acted. by Dennis Gladden, By Green Pastures, ©2026 (Jul. 1, 2026) — Rahab knew Jericho was doomed. So did her neighbors. She acted. They hunkered down. When the city’s wall collapsed, the scarlet thread in her window fluttered in the dust. Her house stood firm. Rahab survived. Her…
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Passing Faith onto the Next Generation
by Jerry Newcombe, New American Prophet, ©2026 (Jun. 26, 2026) — We are often inundated these days with bad news. And those with families feel the negative influences of Hollywood, the media, the schools, and social media, which seem to join together to keep young people from walking on “the straight and narrow.” But here’s…
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Iraqi Christian Woman Reclaims Her Faith From State Imposed Islam
by Ioannesfrobenius, ©2026 (Jun. 12, 2026) — A glimmer of hope for believers in Jesus (Yasua/يسوع) in the Middle East! A woman whom we shall call “Maryam” has won a court case in Iraq to change the designation of her religion in the Iraqi government official database where she had been previously labeled as “Muslim.”…
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#12 A Practical Guide for Living by Faith
by Dennis Gladden, By Green Pastures, ©2026 (May 20, 2026) — In this conclusion, we’ll collect the elements of Faith’s lifestyle that have been scattered across the individual posts and make some final observations. But first, an important reminder. Faith is a relationship, not a commodity. We won’t find it on a store shelf. We…
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#11 A Practical Guide for Living by Faith
by Dennis Gladden, By Green Pastures, ©2026 (May 13, 2026) — As we near the end of this guide on faith, I cannot close without speaking to its classic definition in the book of Hebrews. Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen (Hebrews 1:1). Faith is not pie…
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#9 A Practical Guide for Living by Faith
by Dennis Gladden, By Green Pastures, ©2026 (Apr. 29, 2026) — Paul grieved. The Body of Christ, as he liked to call the Church, had multiple fractures. Meat eaters trampled the vegetarians. Those who observed holy days judged the non-observant. Factions flattered Paul as the champion of their faith; others rallied to Peter or other…
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#8 A Practical Guide for Living by Faith
by Dennis Gladden, By Green Pastures, ©2026 (Apr. 22, 2026) — The people of God have been a thorn from the beginning. It started with Abel. Abel worshiped God the right way, and Cain hated him. Later, the Hebrew immigrants in Egypt stressed Pharaoh, so he shackled them with hard labor. The prophets distressed the kings…
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#7 A Practical Guide for Living by Faith
by Dennis Gladden, By Green Pastures, ©2026 (Apr. 15, 2026) — Life is daily. Get up, get ready, attend to business, wind down, and rest. Do it again tomorrow. Think of the dailiness that Abraham, the father of faith, endured. We meet him when he is 75. Before that, just hundreds of days. One day,…
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#6 A Practical Guide for Living by Faith
by Dennis Gladden, By Green Pastures, ©2026 (Apr. 8, 2026) — We come to the last step in the path of faith: having the strength to obey God. It may be physical strength, which Samson needed to pull down the pillars of the Philistines’ pagan temple. More likely, it is the strength for when we…
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#5 A Practical Guide for Living by Faith
by Dennis Gladden, By Green Pastures, ©2026 (Mar. 25, 2026) — When grace appears, to reject it is hard. Some say it is impossible, that grace is irresistible. Yet, the church’s first martyr made that very charge against his executioners. “Stiff-necked and uncircumcised in heart and ears!” Stephen bristled. “You always resist the Holy Spirit;…
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#4 A Practical Guide for Living by Faith
by Dennis Gladden, By Green Pastures, ©2026 (Mar. 18, 2026) — The critics of Jesus couldn’t fathom that He was obeying God. Their God—the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob—had commissioned Solomon to build the Temple and centuries later recalled a remnant of the Israelites from exile to rebuild it. But just the day before, Jesus…
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#3 A Practical Guide for Living by Faith
by Dennis Gladden, By Green Pastures, ©2026 (Mar. 11, 2026) — We come now to the heart of this study: faith. The discussion usually begins here, but we have seen that faith is the third step on this pathway. To have faith, God must speak, and we must hear. One of literature’s most famous lines…
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#2 A Practical Guide for Living by Faith
by Dennis Gladden, By Green Pastures, ©2026 (Mar. 4, 2026) — The path of faith begins at God’s throne and wends through us on earth. God speaks, we hear, and faith arises. The preceding post introduced the steps along this path. This article will focus on the first two: God speaking and our hearing. God…
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How Can One App Make the World Better?
by Contributor (Mar. 4, 2026) — Love, Family, and Faith are the core qualities that make our world better. More than 8 billion people live on our planet. About 85% of them practice one religion or another, and all of these people are united by faith. Faith never teaches anything harmful or destructive. At its…
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#1 A Practical Guide for Living by Faith
by Dennis Gladden, By Green Pastures, ©2026 (Feb. 25, 2026) — I have wanted to write about faith for a long time. Anyone who has heard me teach through the years knows I will inevitably ask at some point, “How do we get faith?” At last, I get to review the answer with you and…
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Next Religious Majority? Islam’s Unstoppable Growth & The Church’s Wake-Up Call
by Prophecy News Watch, New American Prophet, ©2025 (Nov. 11, 2025) — Something is changing in the heart of America–quietly, steadily, and with consequences that will touch every church and every family. Across our cities and suburbs, the landscape of faith is being rewritten. While Christianity once shaped nearly every corner of American life, another…
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Are You Stepping Out in Faith or Presumption?
by Dennis Gladden, By Green Pastures, ©2025 (Oct. 30, 2025) — The Hebrews believed they were stepping out in faith. In fact, they were stepping out on a limb, and God didn’t back them up. Israel fell. Hard. Yesterday, the same step would have succeeded. Not today. I am talking about the crisis on the…
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Turns Out God Isn’t Dead — He’s Trending
by Martin Mawyer, New American Prophet, ©2025 (Oct. 25, 2025) — The Bible is selling out, Christian music is breaking charts, and millions are rediscovering what truly matters. They told us faith was fading in America. That the old stories, the old institutions, the old Book — it was done. That people no longer needed…
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Trump to Award Charlie Kirk the Presidential Medal of Freedom, 4:00 p.m.
by Sharon Rondeau (Oct. 14, 2025) — On what would have been his 32nd birthday, on Tuesday afternoon President Donald Trump will award the Presidential Medal of Freedom to the late co-founder of Turning Point USA, conservative activist and podcast host Charlie Kirk. The award, which is the highest recognition given to a civilian by…