HillFaith Blog: Good News for Hill Staffers
Welcome to HillFaith:Good News for Hill Staffers! This is where you’ll find two types of content:
First, fact-driven, thoroughly researched and often highly personalized Christian apologetics. Second, news and analyses about working on the Hill, including things like who's being promoted, what are the best (and worst!) offices to work for, salary information, and much else.
Here at HillFaith, we appreciate the importance, the challenges and the complexities of the work you do we are passionate about being a positive, informative resource for those in the trenches.
Most importantly, we want to share the Gospel of Jesus Christ. He is alive and He is "the way, the truth and the life." He is also the key to living the abundant life. Not materially, but in the Truth that sets you forever free.
GOOD QUESTION: Did Jesus Really Think He Was God?
Here’s question for you to ponder on this Saturday of Thanksgiving Weekend morning: Why did Jesus repeatedly accept the worship of Himself by His followers? That’s a question posed by J. Warner Wallace of Cold-Case Christianity in the following video. Be prepared, though, because it’s not the only arresting question Wallace poses:
EMERGING ISSUES ON THE HILL: Aides Should Be Wary Of China’s QR Code Tracking Proposals
Speaking to last weekend’s G20 Summit, China’s strongman, Xi Jinping, encouraged world leaders to follow his country’s example in establishing digital systems to track and regulate the domestic and international movement of citizens, based on factors like their Covid health status. “While containing the virus, we need to restore the secure and smooth operation of…
THINK ABOUT THIS: Friday’s Poached Egg
Then Jesus said: “And do not be called ‘masters,’ either, because you have one master, the Messiah. The greatest among you will be your servant. Whoever exalts himself will be humbled and whoever humbles himself will be exalted.” — Matthew 23:10-12 Photo by Melanie Sosa on Unsplash. And C.S. Lewis said: “A man who was merely…
Some Hard Truths On Truth, Lies, Jesus And God
My Canadian brother in Christ, Bruce Cooper, is a man who chooses his words carefully and well, so when he takes up a topic like the fact that Jesus doesn’t (present tense because He is alive!) lie, I pay attention. He has a must-read post today on “Reasoned Cases for Christ” entitled “Jesus Doesn’t Lie”…
THANKSGIVING! Supreme Court Upholds First Amendment Against Cuomo Worship Restrictions
In what could prove to be a landmark decision upholding the First Amendment’s guarantee of religious freedom of assembly and practice, the Supreme Court late Wednesday slapped down New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s limits on worship assemblies in certain hard-hit areas of New York. In a 5-4 decision, the Court said Cuomo’s restriction of religious…
‘The Blessing’ For Thanksgiving, From OneHeartDC, To Capitol Hill
By Bret Bernhardt One of my great joys of working on Capitol Hill is meeting people and making friends along the way. In particular, there are those who have committed to sharing God‘s love with those who work in Congress. Some were part of a church, others with a para-church organization, and some simply had…
Pastor Rob McCoy: ‘This Is Insane … Take Off The Masks!’
Pastor Rob McCoy, who describes himself as a “pro-life Democrat,” recently converted his church, Godspeak Calvary Chapel in Thousand Oaks, California, into a strip club. Yes, you read that correctly, a strip club. McCoy acted in response to California Gov. Gavin Newsom’s decree that church congregations cannot assemble to worship God but strip clubs and…
The Blessing DMV From OneHeartDC
This is so beautiful: SINCE YOU’RE ALREADY HERE, CHECK THIS OUT! Even Top Evolutionists Admit The World Looks Like Something That Was Intelligently Designed
Even Top Evolutionists Admit The World Looks Like Something That Was Intelligently Designed
Bet you didn’t know that the appearance of intelligent design in the universe is so deep and pervasive that more than a few otherwise convinced evolutionists concede that the world looks like it was created for a purpose. In the following video, Eric Lyons of the Apologetics Press shares some surprisingly candid quotes from world-famous…
WHAT DO YOU THINK? Evidence Expert Sees Four Key Factors Best Explained By Jesus’ Resurrection
Paul the Apostle put it bluntly in I Corinthians 15: 12-19 when he said that, if Christ was not really resurrected by God from the dead three days after His crucifixion, then Christians are among all people “the most to be pitied.” Why? Because Christianity depends absolutely for its credibility upon the truth of the…