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.
Here’s The Three Most VIP Reasons This Convinced Atheist Concluded The Bible Should Be Trusted
When Los Angeles Homicide and then-convinced atheist Detective J. Warner Wallace was nearing decision time in his investigation of Christianity following his wife’s conversion, he realized there were three key issues he needed to resolve. First, were the Gospel accounts of the life, death and resurrection of Jesus Christ written during the lifetimes of eyewitnesses…
No, Jesus Was NOT A Socialist, Not Even Close!
How many times have you heard the claim that Jesus cared about the poor and condemned the rich, so He must have been a socialist? It’s one of those claims that have a superficial appearance of reasonableness. Until the facts about Jesus and socialism are known, that is. A related myth here is that the…
*Do You Really Believe What You Claim To Believe?
That headline above poses one of the most important questions anyone can ever ask themselves. Unfortunately, it’s too often one of the last questions all of us ask of ourselves. The question has a particular relevance for people working on the Hill. At the surface level, everybody in Congress, working for Congress, reporting on Congress,…
There’s More Historical Evidence For Jesus Than For Tiberius Caesar
No serious historian doubts that Tiberius Caesar was the second emperor of the Roman Empire, ruling for 23 years, spanning the period of 14 A.D. to 37 A.D., after succeeding his stepfather, Caesar Augustus. But how much historical evidence is there for the life of Tiberius, compared to that of his ultimately most famous and…
Joint Economic Committee Offers Another View On Family Instability In The U.S. That May Surprise You
A new report compiled and published by the congressional Joint Economic Committee takes a fresh look at the many factors involved in the decline of the nuclear family in the United States in recent decades. The Institute for Family Studies’ Robert VerBruggen writes that the report “provides a good overview of numerous factors that have…
WHAT WOULD YOU SAY? To The Person Claiming That Socialism Is The Answer To Our Problems
Utopian thinking has been around since the dawn of time, but the socialist version of that outlook is a relatively recent invention. Government ownership of the means of production and abolishing private property is the socialism of the modern era, thanks mainly to Karl Marx and the British Fabians. Here in America, this socialism has…
THINK ABOUT THIS: Friday’s Poached Egg
Then Jesus said (to the believing thief on the Cross): Jesus said to them, “I am the bread of life; whoever comes to me shall not hunger, and whoever believes in me shall never thirst.” John 6:35 And C.S. Lewis said: “A man who was merely a man and said the sort of things Jesus said…
STAFF NEWS: Look Who’s Movin’ On Up The Hill This Week
Courtesy of Legistorm: Mary Kate Carter is the newest professional staff member on the Senate Finance Committee, working for the Chairman, Sen. Charles Grassley (R-Iowa). Mary Kate was awarded a BA in French and International Trade from Clemson University in 2018, and an MA in International Trade and Investment Policy from George Washington University’s Elliott School…
One Incredibly Important (Though Often Overlooked) Reason Why The Case For God Matters
Does it really matter whether God exists? There are so many things that demand immediate attention, like your job on the Hill, the next job you want on the Hill, your personal relationships, your present bank balance, your future credit rating, where you’re going Thursday night, why does he/she do that … We all do…
Do You Know What The Gospel Means?
If you think you know what the Gospel of Jesus Christ requires you to do to earn salvation, then you don’t know the Gospel. It’s not what you do that matters, it’s what God has already done for you and whether you believe Him when He says it in His Word, the Bible. If that…