Your summer calendar may already be filled with some of the hottest concerts and festivals of the year, but does purchasing those tickets make you a hypocrite in the eyes of the Church? The great debate continues. It’s officially summer, and that means music festival season is well under way. All across the nation, music […]
Presumptive Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump put together a new Evangelical advisory board. The group of over 20 pastors will give advisory support to Trump on issues important to Evangelicals and other people of faith here in the United States. During Wednesday’s edition of NewsOne Now, three of the chosen pastors spoke with Roland Martin about […]
When I revealed Leah’s battle with cancer to the public and put my football career on hiatus, people called me a hero. But I’ve never thought of myself in that way. I think of myself as a father who would do anything to care for his child. If that makes me a hero, then it’s […]
What does it mean to “throw away your life?” It means to surrender your life to Jesus Christ, says Rick Warren, senior pastor of Saddleback Church in Orange County, California. Citing Mark 8:35, Warren explains in his daily devotional that to “throw away your life,” is to “submit yourself to God for his purposes.” “Only those […]
No one wants to be bitter. It sneaks up on us. Bitterness is unforgiveness fermented. The more we hold onto past hurts the more we become drunk on our pain and the experience can rob us of the joy we can find in anything. Bitterness occurs when we feel someone has taken something from us that we are powerless […]
Having an attitude of gratitude shapes your relationships and your outlook on life, Pastor Rick Warren says. Warren, who serves as senior pastor of the 20,000-member Saddleback Church in Orange County, California, wrote in his devotional on Friday, “The More Grateful You Are the Happier You Are,” that Christians should follow the teaching of Paul […]
Christ’s disciples are called to serve the least of these. But that may not include the least of those in prison and jails, a new study finds. LifeWay Research surveyed 1,000 Protestant senior pastors and found that most of them — 83 percent — have visited a correctional facility and nearly all of them believe churches should […]
As an empowered Christian woman, do you struggle with gossiping? Does getting and giving the 411 on others’ bad news somehow make you feel better? A 2012 University of California, Berkeley study published in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology suggested gossip makes the gossiper feel better. Based on four different experiments and findings […]
Article By Amy Bertinelli // EEW Magazine Dianna Hobbs is challenging Christians to physically disarm and put on the armor of God instead. The EEW Magazine President, along with other influential leaders across the nation, participated in a PBS Town Hall on “Faith and Guns” airing May 10, 2016. The conversation surrounds The Armor of […]
Article By Jennifer Williams “Girl, I’m sorry. You ain’t gone get no man without having sex,” said my then best friend. When I first told her about my switch in mindset and wanting to become abstinent, she seemed taken aback. “You can do whatever you wanna do, but that just sounds stupid if you ask […]
On the latest list of books most objected to at public schools and libraries, one title has been targeted nationwide, at times for the sex and violence it contains, but mostly for the legal issues it raises. The Bible. “You have people who feel that if a school library buys a copy of the Bible, […]
If you’re a teacher who has ever taught K-12, do you ever think back and wonder what happened to some of those kids? Little Johnny, who worked your nerves because he always threw those doggone paper airplanes when he thought you weren’t looking. Nikki, who never seemed to be in a good mood. And David. […]
