Posts by HillFaith
STAFF NEWS: Look Who’s Movin’ Up On The Hill This Week
Courtesy of Legistorm: Returning to the Hill as a Policy Analyst for Republicans on the House Energy and Commerce Committee is Clare Paoletta, working for Rep. Greg Walden (R-OR). Clare was previously Project Coordinator for the National Association of Community Health Centers and before that an Intern for Rep. Fred Upton (R-MI). Clare expects to…
Read MoreCalifornia Church Changes Course, Moves Services Back Outdoors
Just a few weeks ago, North Valley Baptist Church Pastor Jack Trieber was vowing his Santa Clara, California, congregation would not submit to Gov. Gavin Newsom’s Covid restrictions. “We are not closing down this church,” Trieber declared in a video address that went viral on the Internet. That declaration came after officials imposed more than…
Read MoreTHINK ABOUT THIS: Who Created God?
Ever have this conversation? You: God created the universe from nothing. Other Person: Okay, but who created God? J. Warner Wallace, the former NBC “Dateline” cold-case detective who is now a nationally known Christian apologist, answers the “who created God” question with an analogy from his days delivering search warrants:
Read MoreHad An Epiphany Lately?
Epiphanies are those moments in life when something suddenly and without warning becomes clear in our lives and we begin to see things with new insight — and perhaps begin to think and do differently as well. For my part, probably the most important such moment in my life came at 9:15 am in the…
Read MoreFAITHFUL DISOBEDIENCE: Here’s The Absurdly Detailed California Covid Orders to Prevent Churches From Meeting To Worship Indoors
California authorities are clearly determined to make an example of Pastor John MacArthur and Grace Community Church (GCC) in Los Angeles County in retaliation for defying the state’s ban on indoor worship meetings. The ban has been challenged by other California congregations, but MacArthur is an internationally known evangelical pastor, book author and opinion molder.…
Read MoreWhat Would You Say? Is Critical Race Theory Biblical?
If you work on Capitol Hill, you better understand Critical Race Theory (CRT) because it suffuses, both esoterically and exoterically, so much of the analyses of social, political and economic issues heard in media, on campus, in the think tank world and in politics. If you are Christian who works on Capitol Hill, it’s even…
Read MoreMore Americans Of Marriage Age Are Remaining Single
Wendy Wang of the Institute for Family Studies points to two seemingly contradictory trends in the American family: “America is in the middle of two simultaneous trends related to marriage. Marriages today are more stable, thanks to the steady decline of divorce rates since the 1980s. “At the same time, however, a declining share of…
Read MoreMore Evidence That Cancel Culture Is A License For Censorship, Religious Discrimination
Christian Post Editor Samuel Smith has the story: “A California-based fundraising software company that serves nonprofits will no longer provide service to the national Christian conservative activist organization Family Research Council, citing the Southern Poverty Law Center’s (SPLC) listing of the organization as an anti-LGBT ‘hate’ group. “But after pushback to its decision, MobileCause informed…
Read MoreTHINK ABOUT THIS: Friday’s Poached Egg
Then Jesus said: “Truly, truly, I say to you, if anyone keeps my word, he will never see death, ever.” — John 8:51 And C.S. Lewis said: “A man who was merely a man and said the sort of things Jesus said would not be a great moral teacher. He would either be a lunatic…
Read More‘He Has Sent Forth Hither Swarms Of Officers’
As reported by Washington Free Beacon’s Graham Piro: “Los Angeles County fined the church locked in a legal struggle with the county $1,000 for allegedly misplacing signs regarding coronavirus guidelines.
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