By: Jeremy Dys – dailysignal.com – March 3, 2019 Opening public meetings with prayer is such a long-standing American tradition that it is puzzling why some continue to seek the demise of the practice based on subjective claims that such prayers are “inappropriate and divisive.” Consider these news reports just since Jan. 26: A newspaper in Venice, Florida, reported that...

By: Alex Parker – redstate.com – March 2, 2020 President Donald Trump speaks with Pastor Franklin Graham after a funeral service at the Billy Graham Library for the Rev. Billy Graham, who died last week at age 99, Friday, March 2, 2018, in Charlotte, N.C. (AP Photo/Chuck Burton) Last week was a week of prayer at the White House. Both...

By: Cal Thomas – townhall.com – February 8, 2020 For 68 years the National Prayer Breakfast has been a political oasis, a chance for Republicans, Democrats, national and world leaders to assemble and pray for each other and the nation. Not this year. One could tell where things were headed when President Trump arrived later than most other presidents and held...

By: Billy Hallowell – stream.org –  February 6, 2020 Dr. Arthur Brooks, a Harvard professor and the former president of the American Enterprise Institute (AEI), delivered an impassioned speech at the National Prayer Breakfast on Thursday, calling all Americans to help usher in “national healing.” Surrounded by politicians, including President Donald Trump and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, Brooks, a political conservative...

By: Dana Branham, Nataly Keomoungkhoun, Tom Steele & LaVendrick Smith – dallasnews.com – December 29, 2019 A gunman killed two people during a Sunday morning service at a church in White Settlement before members of the congregation fatally shot him, authorities say. Police in White Settlement, about eight miles west of Fort Worth, were called before 11 a.m. to the West Freeway Church...

By: Allen Kim – CNN.com – September 16, 2019 Thinking of sending your “thoughts and prayers” to those affected by tragedy or a natural disaster? Well, not everyone wants them. While Christians value these gestures from religious people, some atheists and agnostics would pay money to avoid them, according to a study published Monday in the Proceedings of the National Academy of...

dayfortheunreached.org – March 29, 2018 The first Pentecost marked the beginning of the gospel going to the farthest corners of the earth. The red dots in the map above show the work remaining to be done in reaching unreached peoples.  Imagine a revived movement of believers reaching the farthest — and the hardest — corners of the earth for Christ...

Go, gather together all the Jews who are in Susa, and fast for me. Do not eat or drink for three days, night or day. I and my maids will fast as you do. When this is done, I will go to the king, even though it is against the law. And if I perish, I perish. Esther 4:16 At...