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I’m going to make a controversial statement. But someone has to state the obvious: Christians who kill themselves likely have demons! In cases of suicide there can be many contributing factors, including severe mental illness, depression, substance abuse, and psychological trauma. But self-murder, the second leading cause of death for people ages 10-34, is taking a […]

It took a parochial school to take action. It’s more than a decade overdue, but better late than never. I’m talking about the Catholic school in Nashville, Tennessee that has banned Harry Potter. I don’t know of a single evangelical Christian school that has demonstrated that spiritual courage. The compromising born-again bunch has mostly waffled

A baseball pitching star with the Tampa Bay Rays minor league system was stunned last week to learn that his wife, baby son, mother-in-law, and pet dog had all been killed by his 19-year-old brother-in-law. The sports star, Blake Bivens, was informed that the murders took place at the family’s home in southern Virginia. The

For several weeks, the press and public have been obsessed with information about billionaire pedophile Jeffrey Epstein. Fascination only increased when, on August 10, 2019, he apparently killed himself in his jail cell, in the Metropolitan Correction Center located in New York City. That suicide unleashed a torrent of conspiratorial speculation about whether he was

Before there was El Paso and Dayton, there was Jonesboro, Arkansas, March 24, 1998. Two children, Mitchel Johnson, age 13, and Andrew Golden, age 11, set up a slaughter at their middle school. They rang a fire alarm, causing the evacuation of the school, while waiting in a wooded area 100 yards away. The two

Nine killed in Dayton, Ohio and 22 murdered in El Paso. This past week, our nation has been transfixed with shock, horror, and revulsion at the domestic carnage caused by two young men, Connor Betts in Ohio and Patrick Crusius in El Paso. As expected, there have been calls for more gun control and better

For decades, Pastor Bill Hybels of the Chicago-area Willow Creek Community Church was the reigning dean of megachurch pastors. Before there was Rick Warren or Joel Osteen, there was Hybels, whose church growth policies spawned a “denomination” of imitators. Now, his empire of 20,000-plus weekly attendees on seven campuses lays in ruins. The demise came

There are many postures to prayer. Kneeling is the one we associate most with prayer, unless you’re a protesting NFL player. The Bible records various ways of approaching God: Abraham fell on his face (Genesis 17:3); Moses stretched out his hands (Exodus 9:27-29). Solomon knelt (I Kings 8:54) and Jesus looked up to heaven (Mark

During a recent one-on-on Personal Spiritual Encounter we ministered to a woman whose family was deeply involved in the occult. There were many things to be renounced and multiple curses to be broken. But after considerable time, we still hadn’t achieved the breakthrough we needed. It was then that the woman said, “You know, my

The devil is a liar. Jesus said so in John 8:44: “He [the devil] is a liar and the father of it.” Lying is the one characteristic of evil that most epitomizes Satan’s kingdom. The devil lies about anything and everything, but he is particularly adept at lying about spiritual warfare. These lies don’t always