A different kind of Olympic Spirit: Ministry supports Christian Olympians
LONDON (WordNews.org) Aug. 4, 2012 –Christian Taylor is expected to take the men’s triple jump gold for the United States when he is competes on Aug. 7. But Steve McConkey says Taylor is already a winner. Taylor is one of the Christian athletes participating in the Olympics in London. Other Christian track and field athletes […]
Read More →If the election were today, 87% of blacks, 57% of Hispanics would vote for Obama
Washington, D.C. (WordNews.org) Aug. 1, 2012— A new poll finds nearly 9-in-10 registered blacks would vote for President Barack Obama if Election Day were today. Meanwhile, 58 percent of registered Hispanic voters said they too would vote for Obama. Just 3 percent of blacks surveyed said they’d vote for the presumptive GOP nominee, Mitt Romney. […]
Read More →UnashamedImpact: A social media revival
LOS ANGELES, Calif. (WordNews.org) July 31, 2012 – The buzz started happening Saturday as @UnashamedImpact started trending on Twitter. People started to jump on board and shout out where they were Tweeting from, and where they were not ashamed. Today the group has nearly 1,400 Twitter followers. The person who launched the movement, Brittney Moses, […]
Read More →Gay marriage headed to Supreme Court?
WASHINGTON, D.C. (WordNews.org) July 31, 2012 — Supporters of California’s marriage amendment that supports marriage between one man and one woman have asked the U.S. Supreme Court to review the case after the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit declared the amendment unconstitutional. The full 9th Circuit passed on reviewing the decision on […]
Read More →Charges against street preacher dismissed
HOLLY RIDGE, N.C. (WordNews.org) July 31, 2012 — Charges against a street preacher who called on police to repent were dismissed by the District Attorney, according to the Rutherford Institute, a Christian law firm. Preachers Jesse Boyd and Ricky Springer had been preaching in a public park when police told the two to that their […]
Read More →Terrorists release mission leader kidnapped at Bible school in India
ASSAM, India (WordNews.org) July 29, 2012 – A senior Gospel for Asia mission leader who was kidnapped at gunpoint last week by five armed terrorist at a Bible school campus here has been released, Gospel for Asia confirmed. The release comes after captors had threatened to kill Pastor Ponnachan George, who was kidnapped on July […]
Read More →Saturdays with Kay Warren: ‘What’s wrong with us?’ (Part 5)
LAKE FOREST, Calif. (WordNews.org) July 28, 2012 – Since writing “Choose Joy,” author Kay Warren has taken to ask questions to her audience. It goes something like this: “How many of you can name two people who live with joy?” It’s not a rhetorical question, Warren told WordNews.org. “Almost every hand goes up–automatically,” she said. […]
Read More →By the Book: “My Dad, Oral Roberts” Part 2: A lasting legacy
TULSA, Okla. (WordNews.org) July 28, 2012 – Oral Roberts lasting legacy was the creation of Oral Roberts University, according to his daughter. But Potts, author of “My Dad, Oral Roberts,” told WordNews.org that the university is an extension of er father’s healing ministry. [To buy the book]. “It [the university] was only made possible because […]
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