Truth Itself – Page 20 – News that Impacts Your Faith, Family & Country

The fire at First Baptist Dallas destroyed just about everything….but something amazing survived …. The churches Historic Pulpit

July 29, 2024

Over the weekend, a four-alarm fire that ravaged much of First Baptist Church Dallas's historic sanctuary spared a cherished 130-year-old pulpit, which had been a cornerstone for some of the congregation's mos... Listen Now...

In Kentucky, voters will soon have a say on a proposed amendment to the state constitution that would allow the state to provide public funding for private schools

July 26, 2024

Known as Amendment 2, the proposal will go before voters in November and would allow the legislature to fund educational institutions not within the public school system. The original bill passed both house... Listen Now...

The Percentage of adults who believe God created humans reaches a 40-year low

July 25, 2024

The findings come from Gallup. Among those responding to the polling company’s latest survey, 37% said God alone created human beings fully evolved within the past 10,000 years. That’s a new low since Gallup first surveyed the issue in 1982, down 1 percentage... Listen Now...

The French Bible Society has created a special edition of the New Testament to be distributed during the upcoming Olympics

July 24, 2024

With the Paris Olympic Games set to get underway this week, the French Bible Society is making its own preparations to hand out 140,000 copies of the New Testament in French and another 60,000 copies in Englis... Listen Now...

Congress is soon to take up the ‘Kids Online Safety Act”

July 23, 2024

The last time Congress passed a law to protect children on the internet was in 1998 — before Facebook, before the iPhone and long before today's oldest teenagers were born. Now, a bill aiming to protect kids f... Listen Now...

Oklahoma’s new directive to teach the Bible in public school classrooms is getting pushback

July 22, 2024

An Oklahoma school district will not follow a directive from the state's Superintendent of Public Instruction Ryan Walters requiring the Bible to be taught as part of public education. Norman Public Schools Superintendent Nick Migliorino told local media l... Listen Now...

Churches are weathering an insurance crisis that has many losing coverage or being hit with large premium increases

July 19, 2024

An ongoing wave of disasters – Gulf Coast hurricanes, wildfires in California, severe thunderstorms and flooding in the Midwest – along with skyrocketing construction costs post-COVID have left the insurance i... Listen Now...

Over 1,000 North Carolina churches are gearing up to help their communities through a statewide initiative

July 18, 2024

The initiative is ServeNC. It calls on church members to complete service projects in their local communities from Aug. 3 to Aug. 10. Service projects will range from food pantrys and free yard sales to w... Listen Now...

Christians working near and afar are cautiously exploring the use AI to share Jesus

July 17, 2024

Leslie Taylor preaches in English and Japanese each Sunday at the bilingual Matsudo Church of Christ in the Tokyo area. He prepares his sermons each week in English. Then he goes through his manuscript — sentence by sentence, paragraph by paragraph — to tr... Listen Now...

The IRS is being pressured to investigate Family Research Council’s ‘church’ status

July 16, 2024

A group of Democratic members of Congress are calling on the Internal Revenue Service to investigate the National Christian Conservative Advocacy Organization. Reps. Jared Huffman of California and Suzan De... Listen Now...