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.
TESTIMONIES: Keith Fagan Found the True Relationship With Jesus Christ
(FIVE-MINUTE READ AND WATCH) — Keith Fagan played baseball in college, then graduated and became a high school coach in Mississippi. He was married to a wonderful wife, a successful coach on track for a great career and seemingly secure in living the American Dream. But, as we see so often when, as Matthew West…
CONSIDER THIS: These Scientists See Intelligent Design in Nature
(THREE MINUTE WATCH) — Think about it, if the order and structure of the universe are evidence of an Intelligent Designer, doesn’t it make sense for you to know as much as possible about that designer? Watch the following 2:51 second video as a bunch of scientists from a variety of disciplines explain why they…
What I am Thankful For on Thanksgiving 2024
(FIVE-MINUTE READ) — What I am thankful for today, Thanksgiving 2024: 1. That on March 1, 1991, at 9:15 am the Lord opened my eyes to the wreckage I’d made of my life and those of others, and to my need for Him as my Lord and Savior. I literally cried out “Please Help Me,…
WHAT WOULD YOU SAY: Is Jesus God?
(FIVE MINUTE READ/WATCH) — The question posed in the headline above just might be the single most important question you will ever be asked because where you spend your eternity depends on how you respond to it. But, as the following 4:45 “What Would You Say” video explains, the answer may not be as complicated,…
LINCOLN’S THANKSGIVING DAY PROCLAMATION
(THREE-MINUTE READ) — On October 3, 1863, as the nation struggled through the third year of a devastating civil war between North and South, President Abraham Lincoln declared the last Thursday of November a national holiday of Thanksgiving. That he did so against a backdrop of war, division, and suffering is all the more remarkable…
CONSIDER THIS: The Wonder of ‘Let The Fire Fall’ in Yosemite National Park
(SIX-MINUTE WATCH/READ) — Did you hear it or see it? The message of the creation, that is. Is there a better day than Thanksgiving Day to be thankful for all the natural beauty that surrounds us? “The heavens declare the glory of God and the sky above proclaims His handiwork. Day to day pours out…
CONTRADICTIONS: Is It Six Days (Matthew and Mark) or Eight Days (Luke)?
Among the many examples of apparent contradictions skeptics of the Bible as the infallible and inerrant Word of God is the difference in counting days between Jesus prophesying something hugely important about the coming Kingdom of God on Earth and the Transfiguration seen in Matthew 17:1, Mark 9:2 and Luke 9:28. Matthew and Mark both…
CONSIDER THIS: Is Our Universe a Product of Intelligent or Stupid Design?
(13-MINUTE WATCH) — Scientists associated with the Discovery Institute are known for presenting many arguments and vast evidence for their contention that the amazing order and structure of the universe is clear evidence that the universe is not an accident, that it didn’t simply evolve into its present form. To the contrary, just as philosopher…
TESTIMONIES: Tyler Larimer’s Journey From Foster Home and Drugs to Grace and Love in Jesus Christ
(SIX MINUTE WATCH AND READ) — Imagine being born into an alcoholic family so lost that the authorities take you and your little sister away and give you to a foster family that eventually adopts you, but then kicks you onto the streets. That’s what happened to Tyler Larimer. His is a difficult and challenging…