Pastor Joel Osteen said he hasn’t been rattled in any sex abuse scandals plaguing the Catholic Church because he’s been committed to the “Billy Graham rule,” which involves men avoiding time alone with women who aren’t their wives, according to a recent interview in the Christian Post. Osteen, a bestselling author and pastor of Houston’s…

In 1967, the year of the Summer of Love and the Hippy Movement, thousands of hippies gathered on the beaches of California and found Christ. In fact, estimates say that at least 250,000 people became Christians during this period. Four years prior, JFK had been assassinated, people rallied together to protest the Vietnam War. Tensions…

President Ronald Reagan made one last effort to convert his dying father-in-law in hopes that he would accept Christ in his life. A lost handwritten letter revealed from 1982 shows Reagan quoting Scripture, pointing to Old Testament prophecy and using apologetics while pleading with his atheist father-in-law in an attempt to save him. “We have…

Security has been heightened in Garisa county after a group of al-Shabaab militants ambushed a bus in Garissa county on the morning of Friday, killing two Christians on the spot. According to International Christian Concern, the terrorists, armed with AK 47 refiles, ordered the passengers off the bus and demanded to see their identification, in…

Over 2,000 years ago, Christ told His followers to take up their crosses and follow Him. Over the centuries, many Christians have done exactly that. They have faced persecution, hatred and innumerable trials as their way of taking up the cross. One modern man, however, has taken that imperative very literally. Patrick Styles hails from…

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