Truth Itself – Page 43 – News that Impacts Your Faith, Family & Country

A new survey finds most pastors lack extensive secular work experience

August 9, 2024

Most Protestant clergy in the United States worked for 10 years or fewer in non-ministry occupations before becoming pastors, according to a recent survey from Lifeway Research. According to the data, 58% o... Listen Now...

A Kentucky teacher hopes to inspire others after he and his wife adopted one of his students along with his three siblings

August 8, 2024

Justin and Kasey Padgett of Danville became the adoptive parents of Hailey, Jayden, Alexis, and Jase. All under 17. In 2020, during the height of the COVID-19 lockdown, Justin was a fifth-grade elementary s... Listen Now...

Missouri’s Attorney General has started an investigation of Life Time Fitness over allegations the gym chain let a man use a women’s locker room

August 7, 2024

Missouri AG Andrew Bailey accused a Life Time Fitness center of valuing political correctness over safety following reports that the gym allowed a man who identifies as female to change in the locker room intended for women and young girls. Bailey announc... Listen Now...

A church in the Houston area is Praying For Its 2 Astronauts who are now In Space

August 6, 2024

About 10 miles from Johnson Space Center, members of Providence Baptist Church take a moment during Wednesday Bible studies and Sunday evening services to pray for two members who cannot be there. They have... Listen Now...

In Nigeria, a Christian politician was abducted during a church Bible study while two others will killed in the attack

August 5, 2024

Gunmen in southern Nigeria kidnapped a prominent Christian woman and wife of the Attorney General of Delta State from a church Bible study in an attack that left her driver and a policeman dead. Joan Onyema... Listen Now...

A Southern Baptist pastor also hosts an award-winning radio show in D.C.

August 2, 2024

Although he may not seem like a typical bi-vocational minister, Southern Baptist pastor Don Kroah said being a full-time pastor and hosting an award-winning radio show are simply two things he believes God has assigned to him. Kroah, who has been the senio... Listen Now...

A Worship band credits their parents’ influence, faith and standing strong amid storms for their success

August 1, 2024

The Worship band Consumed by Fire is made up of three brothers — Jordan Ward, Caleb Ward and Josh Ward. Their parents, David Paul and Vonda Sue Ward, planted 11 churches. The influence meant the trio learn... Listen Now...

Christian leaders call the apology for the offensive opening ceremonies of the Paris Olympics ‘condescending’ and “woke duplicity”

July 31, 2024

Following a controversial opening ceremony at the Paris 2024 Olympics that featured an interpretation of the “The Last Supper” with drag queens, religious leaders have released their own responses to the organ... Listen Now...

7 Lives were Lost In a Wyoming Plane Crash, Including Some Members Of ‘The Nelons’ Gospel Group

July 30, 2024

Three members of the Nelons, a Gospel Music Association Hall of Fame quartet and the chairman of the board overseeing the Georgia Department of Corrections, were among seven people killed in a plane crash in Wyoming, according to a statement by a group member... Listen Now...

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...