As a young pastor, the first memorial service I led was for twin daughters swept away by birth defects. The second involved a young boy swept away by cancer. My third was for a teen swept away while swimming. My fourth honored the life of a young man swept from this world by a reckless driver.

Do you want to see YOUR church waking up to the glory of Christ as part
of a sweeping revival across the whole of America?

As you know, on Easter weekend, we celebrated the 250 th year of the beginning of the first
American Revolution in 1775 with the “shot heard ‘round the world” at Lexington and Concord.
Look at what was brought forth in 2025 from that small beginning of one proactive movement
commenced by common, everyday citizens: the greatest nation, on many levels, the world has
ever seen!

Is that the hunger you’re feeling right now? Are you longing to know more about the glory of Jesus? Are you eager to experience more of the power of Jesus? Are you ready to become more for the purposes of Jesus?

The keys of death were hung on the inside of Christ’s tomb. From the outside, Christ could do many wonderful works, including raising a twelve-year-old girl and two men from the dead—only to die again. If any were to be raised from the dead, never to die again, Christ would have to die for them, enter the tomb, take the keys, and unlock the door of death from the inside (John Piper).

On December 13, 1931, on a New York City street, Winston Churchill was struck by a car going 30 miles per hour. Said the future Prime Minister: “I do not know why I was not broken like an eggshell or squashed like a gooseberry.” What if he had been killed? Then what might have been the outcome of World War II, not only for Britain but also for the world?

Is “gory” too repulsive a term for us to use in describing the way Christ died for us? Is it the kind of image we should toss around at Eastertime?

Come with me to Cincinnati. Along the banks of the Ohio River sits one of the most startling museums in America: The National Underground Railroad Freedom Center. Just as often happens at a similar but larger museum on the National Mall, a day spent at the Center often leaves visitors shaken to the core.

Hello, my brothers and sisters in Jesus!
I hope this letter won’t be seen as my trying to get sympathy for a personal medical condition. Not at all. Instead, I want to share a fresh insight with you about the person of our marvelous Lord Jesus Christ.

Who could have imagined it? A poor, homeless outcast—a worthless executed criminal—reigns today as King of the cosmos, Lord of history, Ruler of the nations, Redeemer of sinners, and Head of a new creation!

Friends of ChristNow.com: The team and I want to share with you some of the amazing facts from just one month of our 2025 Nationwide Campaign for an American CHRIST Awakening.

On January 28, 2025, the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists made their annual prediction, rating how close humanity is to ending life on Earth. They factored in the destructive impacts of climate change, the proliferation of nuclear weapons, the instability of the Middle East, the rising threat of global pandemics, and the incorporation of AI in military calculations.

I’ve stood in the Oval Office at the White House. I’ve held hands with the president as I prayed over him standing in the Oval Office at the White House.

A few days ago, NBC news reported a most amazing event:

Marjorie Fiterman and Bernie Littman are The couple, who fell in love after they moved onto the same floor of a senior living facility in Philadelphia, set a world record for the oldest couple to marry when they tied the knot on May 19 [2024] after nine years of dating. The bride is 102, and the groom is 100.

Until COVID hit, my wife Robyne and I had spent thirteen years volunteering inside a maximum security prison near us. Initially, we thought we were there to care for and uplift men who were about as lost and low as anyone can be—many of them serving life sentences.

The world hosts a pantheon of ancient deities! They come in all shapes and sizes—and attitudes—and claim all kinds of abilities and influences in the world.

Early one morning, when I was five years old, I came within five minutes of dying. What made the difference were two firemen willing to risk their lives by rushing into a house engulfed in carbon monoxide poisoning from a faulty furnace.

A house or nation divided against itself cannot long endure. That was the essence of Abraham Lincoln’s unheeded warning (borrowing Jesus’ words) delivered to a Chicago political convention two years before the Civil War.

In the late 20th century, AT&T created an ad campaign based on the tagline “Reach out and touch someone.” The lyrics by the popular singer and actress Diana Ross begin with these words

Nearly 317 Church fathers, meeting in A.D. 325 at Nicea (in modern Turkey), unanimously tried to summarize the essence of the Incarnation’s mystery for the churches rapidly spreading across the map. They incorporated it into a short creed for Christians everywhere to recite as they gathered. Here is the key portion of the Nicene Creed