Conference: Urban Preaching for Life Change

The opportunity for local churches to reach a wide array of people in Metro New York is unparalleled. This region is home to one of the most vibrant and diverse metropolises of the world and the allure of life in the city attracts all types of people—but not all of them know the positive impact God can make in their lives.

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Post-Abortion Ministry Gets to the ‘Heart’ of the Matter

By Rachel Mari

“The Lord has anointed me to bring good news to the afflicted; He has sent me to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to captives and freedom to prisoners.” -Isaiah 61:1 

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Hawthorne Christian Academy Builds a Lasting Foundation; Open House March 11

Founded in 1981, Hawthorne Christian Academy is a college preparatory school that has helped hundreds of students go on to higher education with a solid foundation built on rigorous academics and a biblical worldview. The school verse is Proverbs 22:6, “Train a child in the way he should go, and when he is old he will not turn from it.”

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‘Adoption is a Life-Saving Option’

By Rachel Mari

           Life begins at conception and the unborn are persons with souls. For the last 50 years, these are the truths that have motivated workers at Bethany Christian Services in their ministry to pregnant women. Bethany Christian Services in Fair Lawn, NJ is part of a national counseling and adoption ministry that upholds the sanctity of human life by promoting and providing life-affirming alternatives to abortion. The Fair Lawn office was Bethany’s first branch and is one of seven in the New York Metro area.

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‘Rational Conclusions’ for Believers, Skeptics

Take a former Atheist who is now a committed Christian, add a lifetime of academia and an engineer’s perspective. The result is Rational Conclusions, the provocative new book by James D. Agresti, a New Jersey writer whose passions and profession have melded together to create a nonfiction work to reaffirm what religious believers know and challenge what nonbelievers doubt is historical fact.  

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A Christ-Awakening At the Pastors’ Prayer Summit

Commentary by Tom Campisi

As a leader of the modern-day prayer movement in the United States and abroad, David Bryant has witnessed many wondrous moments over the last four decades.

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Lighthouse Pregnancy Center Banquet Features Author David Kinnaman

David Kinnaman—author of the best-selling book, unChristian: What a New Generation Really Thinks About Christianity . . . and Why it Matters—will be the keynote speaker at the Lighthouse Pregnancy Resource Center fundraising banquet, March 8, at The Venetian Restaurant in Garfield, New Jersey.

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Why Public Schools Matter to God

By Jeremy Del Rio

How many eighth grade Bible studies lead with Lamentations? Or Leviticus?

Yet last I checked, Lamentations and Leviticus are part of the Biblical canon, along with Romans and Revelation and lots of other heady reading material. 

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