TODAY’S GUEST: Glenn T. Stanton, Director of Global Family Formation Studies at Focus on the Family
- The Myth of the Dying Church: How Christianity is Actually Thriving in America and the World
- Biblical churches are holding strong
- Liberal churches are hemorrhaging members
- Global growth of Christianity is booming
- Young adult attendance at biblically faithful churches is at a 50-year high
- Nones are not a new group of unbelievers
- Thom Rainer: Seven Reasons for Optimism in Today’s Church
- Thom Rainer: Why Smaller Churches are Making a Comeback
- WSJ: Cradles, Pews, and the Societal Shifts Coming to Politics
- “The steady, long-term decline in church attendance is confirmed in the most recent Wall Street Journal/NBC News poll. Just 29% of Americans now say they attend religious services once a week or more often. That is down from 41% in 2000.”
- Jonathan Merritt: America’s Epidemic of Empty Churches
- BARNA: The most post-Christian cities in the United States
- 16 criteria which identify a lack of Christian identity, belief and practice
- Top 8 on East Coast
- New poll shows growing view that clergy are irrelevant
- “Comparable to lawyers, who rank near the bottom”
FOLLOW UP: Conservative views cost beauty queen her crown
- “What happened to Zhu is emblematic of a troubling trend in a social media world where judgments are instantaneous and individuals are labeled without taking context into account.”
- Original Story:
Alan Dershowitz: Mueller testimony was confusing and contradictory
- “… the report should no longer be called the Mueller report. It seems quite clear that Mueller himself did not play a major role in compiling it or writing its conclusions. He did not seem familiar with its content, nor was he able to answer proper questions.”
Michael Goodwin: Mueller’s testimony equals end of any Trump impeachment talk
- “…the 74-year old former FBI director was something of a figure-head for an investigation that was carried out by the team of zealots he assembled.”
- “…the prosecutors were primarily people who had donated to Hillary Clinton and other Democrats or who otherwise made known their support for her.”
- “… much of [the Mueller Report] reads as if it were written by Trump-hating reporters from The New York Times.”
- “…from start to finish, Trump was targeted by partisan law enforcement officials who had no business being on the case. And yet, despite a probe that ran a combined three years, involved hundreds of witnesses, thousands of subpoenas and surveillance on Trump associates and maybe the president himself, investigators could find nothing — nothing! — worthy of a criminal charge.”
USA TODAY: Mueller’s testimony fails to galvanize nation to impeach Donald Trump
- …Mueller provided no new firepower to Democrats trying to establish that Trump committed crimes. He reiterated that he didn’t find enough evidence to prove any criminal conspiracy between Russians and the Trump campaign.”
Meanwhile, the REAL investigation the media is ignoring…
Barr assigns US Attorney in Connecticut to review origins of Russia inquiry
RNS: (LIBERAL) Faith groups urge State Department to abolish new ‘unalienable’ rights commission
- “…this is in actuality an effort to provide intellectual top cover to what is really an exercise in circumscribing the rights of gay people and laying the foundation for a particular position within the abortion wars.”
CT: Pew’s Religious Literacy Survey: American‘s who know religion best hold worse views of Evangelicals
- “While few in the US can parse Protestant theology or define the prosperity gospel, evangelicals were among the top-performing faith groups in a religious literacy quiz, ranking after Jews, atheists, and agnostics and above other Christian affiliations and religious nones.”
CT: Ligonier Ministries State of Theology Survey reveals “a surprising number of evangelicals affirm heretical beliefs”
CT: Evangelicals “favorite heresies” as revealed in Ligonier’s 2018 State of Theology Survey
Jerry Falwell, Jr. to CNN: “I’m a college president and lawyer.” Implies he’s NOT a “Christian leader.”
- VIDEO
- WP: As a Liberty graduate, I am troubled by Jerry Falwell Jr.’s treatment of Russell Moore
- ARCHIVE: Tells Christian Pastor David Platt to “grow a pair”
John MacArthur: “Evangelicals of our generation seem pathologically addicted to the sin of desiring the praise of men.”
Pete Wehner: The Deepening Crisis in Evangelical Christianity
Jerry Tweets: “I have never been a minister. UVA-trained lawyer and commercial real estate developer…” Boasts about accomplishments.
Hoppin’ and a-boppin’ and singing his song
All the little birds on Jaybird Street
Love to hear the robin go tweet-tweet-tweet
Because, of course, only ministers, and not lawyers and commercial real estate developers who profess to be Christians, are required to behave like Christ.
“Let your speech always be gracious, seasoned with salt, so that you may know how you ought to answer each person.” [Colossians 4:6]
Oh. Wait. I’m sorry. Jerry, Jr is a lawyer and a commercial real estate developer and a college president and NOT a Christian leader or a minister, so the Bible doesn’t apply to him. Sorry for the confusion.
Freeway of Love: Governor Whitmer Signs Bill Designating Portion Of M-10 Freeway Aretha Franklin Memorial Highway
- VIDEO: Freeway of Love