Life and Faith

Can People Who Have Never Heard of Jesus Be Saved?

"You need to hear the Gospel to be saved," said Pastor John Piper of Bethlehem Baptist Church in Minneapolis.

Sole Survivor Hannah Luce of Teen Mania Recovering From Plane Crash

"The fact that Hannah is here with us is a miracle, and while I am overjoyed and so thankful to God that she's here, I am also deeply saddened at the loss of Austin, Stephen, Garrett and Luke," Ron Luce wrote Tuesday on his blog. "I can't even begin to understand the pain their parents are feeling right now."

The Greatest Untapped Evangelistic Opportunity Before the Modern Church

The Bible calls fathers to preach the gospel to their children everyday, when they "sit in their house, when they walk by the way, when they lie down and when they rise up" (Deuteronomy 6:7). A father is to pass on the knowledge of God to the next generation. He is commanded to expose his children day by day to the greatness of God, the perfections of His ways, and the great stories that explain His nature and character. This kind of instruction gives children a true understanding of the gospel.

The Battle for Marriage: Imagination, Culture and Politics

The President's announcement notwithstanding, we have "won" nearly all of the political battles concerning so-called same-sex "marriage." But if we want to preserve marriage, we have to do a better job of contending for Truth upstream of politics: In the culture, and in people's imaginations.

Small Ala. Town to Keep Bible Verses on Welcome Signs

"The Sylvania 'welcome' signs are not welcoming; they affiliate the government with one religion, Christianity, and exclude others. The endorsement of the tenets of one religion on government signs is unconstitutional," Elliott wrote.

Religion Census: Increase in Evangelicals, Mormons, Muslims; Decrease in Catholics

Muslims saw the greatest growth rate among the five main religious groups studied. Their numbers increased by 66.7 percent in the 2010 census from a decade earlier. Latter-day Saints saw the next highest growth at 45.5 percent, followed by evangelical Protestants at only 1.7 percent. The number of Catholics decreased by five percent and the number of mainline Protestants decreased by 12.8 percent.

From Blame to Breakthrough

Blaming others did not just begin in our current age it has been a reality since the day in the Garden of Eden when Adam blamed Eve and Eve blamed the serpent for the transgression against God’s instruction not to eat from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.

Centuries-Old Gospel of John Bought by British Library for $14.3M

The U.K. Society of Jesus, or the Jesuits, sold the St. Cuthbert Gospel, also known as the Stonyhurst Gospel or the St. Cuthbert Gospel of St. John, to the library in partnership with Durham University and Durham Cathedral.

Christianity the Only Means of Eternal Life? Some Pastors Disagree

The survey asked 1,000 Protestant pastors the question, "If a person is sincerely seeking God, he/she can obtain eternal life through religions other than Christianity."

Were Adam and Eve ‘Cavemen?’ Christian Apologetics Debate Continues

The apologists featured in the Answers magazine article, David Menton and John UpChurch, explore the "often misunderstood and confusing" topic of cavemen, addressing questions like: Were they our primitive brutish ancestors? Did Adam and Eve really exist? The men address the ongoing debate about whether Christians should believe in the biblical account of creation without question, or whether they should explore how the account can be scientifically supported.

‘Church Online’ Boasts 100,000 Viewers a Week

Bobby Gruenewald, Life Church pastor and innovation leader for "Church Online," told those watching an online forum that they "see over a 100,000 unique computers every week that come to one of our services at Church Online and we're able to measure the results from the people that come through it."