When he was living under the communist regime as a teenager and young adult, Abebe said that he could never imagine Meskel Square overflowing with hundreds of thousands of Ethiopians singing praises to God. “Now we can worship in this area,” he said. “This is a great victory..."

There seems to be an increasing number of Christians today who are convinced that the Jewish people are no longer God's chosen people. To them, modern-day Israel is considered irrelevant and not part of God's prophetic plan, and the church is now the chosen people of God. I'm here to tell you: those who hold to that position are dead wrong.

We should behave in a way that opens the door to conversations about our faith. Our actions should affirm our love for Christ and not be a stumbling block for others. But, on top of that, my friends, be available and ready to share the Good News. “The harvest is plentiful, but the laborers are few; therefore pray earnestly to the Lord of the harvest to send out laborers into his harvest” (Matthew 9:37-38).

The first century Church was a thermostat, while the twenty-first century Church (in America, at least) is often little more than a thermometer. Thermostats control the temperature, while thermometers simply reflect it. We can acquiesce, shrink in silence, or stand tall in spite of the consequences. Jesus called his followers to do the latter.

The Supreme Court of the United Kingdom ruled unanimously on Wednesday that the terms man, woman, and sex in the U.K. Equality Act 2010 refer to biological sex. Observers have called it a landmark ruling, as it confirms that biological males who identify as female can be excluded from places such as women’s refuges, hospital wards, and sports.

The military’s mission is clear, as the president wrote in his executive order: “to protect the American people and our homeland as the world’s most lethal and effective fighting force. This objective should not be compromised to accommodate political agendas or ideologies. … Military service must be reserved for those who are both mentally and physically fit to serve.”

Parent’s God-given duty to be responsible for the education of their children is one of the final and most important elements of liberty and Christian civilization. If big government, at any level, can wrest the levers of authority from the rightful overseers of the nation’s posterity, the country will fall. Thankfully, parents are still active and putting up a fight.

Ziegler, along with the film's producers, proudly declared that Snow White wouldn't be waiting for true love. Instead, she would be dreaming of becoming a fearless leader. She refused to sing "Someday My Prince Will Come," the signature song of the original film, dismissing it also as "weird." Instead, she's got a new song, "Waiting on a Wish." You guessed it; the song is about female empowerment and self-sufficiency—because heaven forbid we acknowledge the timeless human desire for love, redemption, and rescue!

Antisemitism, hatred of the Jewish people, is a shapeshifter. Its forms may change, but its heartbeat and destructive outcomes remain the same. Today, antisemitism has shifted yet again. It is morphing into what can be called national antisemitism, where Jews are hated not because of their religion or ethnicity but because of the State of Israel.

Tensions are indeed running high as Iran remains hellbent on achieving a nuclear weapon to wipe Israel off the face of the map. According to some, we are mere weeks away from Iran achieving a nuclear weapon. For that reason, we are seeing a bolstering of US forces in the Middle East.

The fires of antisemitism run hot and go deep, and the winds of war blow its embers everywhere. As rage against Israel grows throughout the world, Israel becomes ever more desperate for peace. And that is setting them up for the deceptions of the Antichrist.

Their propaganda works. In America, 48% of 18–24-year-olds support Hamas over Israel. Terrorists have killed their thousands; TikTok its tens of thousands. But Hamas may have overplayed its hand. Gazans are tired of only receiving the crumbs from Hamas’s table. Local clans are starting to fight back, and people are getting killed.

The "Tariff Sheriff" is restoring law and order to the Wild West of unfair trade deals. No more kicking the can down the road. The leftist media is stoking fear, accusing President Trump of starting a trade war. The truth is that this war has been waged on the US for decades, and Americans are finally waking up.

As I began to fret over the seeming delay of God’s response, I read Psalm 75:2, “At the set time that I appoint I will judge with equity.” That’s what I needed to see. The Lord’s answer to wickedness of our day is surely coming, but it will happen in His appointed time.

The days of Noah have returned. The violence of our day is mind-numbing. The beheading of seventy Christians in the Congo barely registered on the national news. As I write, the terrorist government of Syria has massacred over 1,300 Alawites (a sect of Islam) and Christians. The targeting of our fellow believers for slaughter continues unabated in Syria.

What was once a nation rooted in Judeo-Christian values now appears eager to discard its Christian heritage in favour of promoting Islamic ideology. Under the banner of multiculturalism, objections to this shift are swiftly silenced by accusations of "Islamophobia" or “far-right” rhetoric.

But to fully understand Christ’s finished work on the cross, we must equally consider each of these pivotal moments. Combined, they change history, life, and eternity.

In the gloom of Good Friday, the disciples could only read: “Jesus defeated!” But in the bright light of Easter morning, the glorious truth of Jesus’ resurrection shone into their despair.

The cross was intended to not just bring agony and death, but to do so in such an obscene, traumatic, humiliating, and public fashion that everybody knew the punishment they would receive should they disobey Rome.

I grew up in a Christian home, and I’ve been to many Easter celebrations in my lifetime. My father was a preacher, and he was a good teacher, but I did not have a full understanding of the priority of the Resurrection until I was a second-year student in seminary.

It's always about a lamb—a substitute. The blood on the doorposts was the sign that a death had already occurred in that house and the penalty for sin had been meted out, allowing the wrath of God to be turned away. The cross is the sign that payment has been made for sin, because the Lamb of God has taken our punishment upon Himself.