Celebrating Pastor Jack Hayford: The Evangelical Gold Standard







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Celebrating Pastor Jack Hayford: The Evangelical Gold Standard

By: Joel Vaughan


There are many good things about the internet, and perhaps just as many if not more negative aspects. But one of the things I enjoy most is being able to attend events which I otherwise could not. These include lectures, happenings, and memorials not publicly significant enough to be shown on television.

On a sunny Colorado winter afternoon, a week’s worth of snow melting and running down curbsides, I watched a two-hour funeral service being held live in California.

With very few exceptions, only the funerals of former presidents and major figures, such as Billy Graham or Queen Elizabeth, are shown on television. I watched the Graham memorial on television back in March of 2018, but having just buried my mother two days earlier, I was hardly focused on the timely importance of it.


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Why Christians Should Call Out Heresy



By: Daily Citizen Staff





Should all Christians care about proper theological belief? Should we call it out when others who claim the name of Christ veer off into heretical belief and teaching?

Increasingly, Christians tend to answer both questions in the negative. They see making waves about heavy biblical truth as the opposite of being “winsome” which has curiously become a new Fruit of the Spirit. But it is not. But what about the early Christians? How did they deal with false teaching in their midst?

It is an important question. And the answer is that from the beginning, Christian leaders took the careful teaching of orthodoxy and the rebuke of heretics extremely seriously. Let’s just look at history. One of the earliest and most destructive heresies the church fathers had to correct was Gnosticism, which questioned the nature of God and His created world, the humanity of Jesus, and how we know truth. Yes, very fundamental issues.

Over and against this challenge, rose the great Irenaeus (Ir-re-ney-us), a mere two generations removed from Jesus Himself. His name means peaceable as in “being irenic.” But he was also an absolute tiger when it came to defending the truth of Christianity. Irenaeus was taught in his youth by the martyr Polycarp who was taught by the Apostle John, the author of the fourth gospel, three epistles, and Revelation, as well as being the one Jesus chose to care for his own mother just before he died. The man has a strong spiritual lineage.






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Babies With 0% Chance of Survival Become World’s Most Premature Twins to Live — Parents Give God All the Glory



By: Nicole Hunt





Canadian twins, Adiah and Adrial Nadarajah, were born at 22 weeks and zero days. These micro-preemies just celebrated their one-year birthday on March 4, 2023, and are now officially the world’s most premature twins.

In response, the family shared on social media, “We give God all the glory for the miracle He has performed in sustaining both Adiah and Adrial.”

As reported by Guinness World Records, the twins were born 126 days early. Initially, it wasn’t at all certain that doctors would even help the babies with life-saving medical treatment once they were born.

In fact, the twins’ parents, Kevin and Shakina Nadarajah, were told by doctors that there was no possibility of survival for their babies and the best they could hope for was to hold and comfort them as they took their last breaths.

Shakina went into preterm labor at 21 weeks and five days.

In a video interview with Guinness World Records, the twins’ father, Kevin, says that the hospital’s initial reaction was to tell them they would lose the babies.

After the hospital told them there was nothing they could do for the babies, they said the best the hospital could offer was comfort care.

Comfort care is when the hospital refuses to give life-saving medical treatment, and instead, babies are given to their parents to hold until they die.






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Texas Rep. Introduces Bill Providing Tax Relief to Promote Marriage and Family Formation




By: Zachary Mettler





A Texas state representative has introduced a bill providing tax incentives to encourage marriage and family formation in the Lone Star State.

Texas Rep. Bryan Slaton has introduced HB 2889 which provides families with property tax relief based on the size of their family. The bill provides the tax credits for families with both biological and adopted children.

Only men and women who are legally married, and have not been divorced, may qualify for the credit.

Married couples will receive a 10% deduction on their property taxes. Then, the credit jumps to 40% for couples with four or more children. The credit increases by 10% per additional child.

“Supporting Texas means supporting Texas families,” said Rep. Slaton. “Strong families are the backbone and building blocks of society. We must support families by making it financially easier for them to have and raise children in a supportive and nurturing way.”

In a press release, Rep. Slaton noted that a myriad of studies show that children do better when raised by a married mother and father.

“Many studies have shown that children tend to have enhanced ‘wellbeing and development,’ and tend to avoid developmental, academic, and behavioral problems when raised by both parents in a stable marriage,” the press release noted.





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The Modern Hymn that Shows the Way to Being a Bold Witness in a Confused World



By: Paul Batura






It was J.C. Ryle, the nineteenth-century English evangelical Anglican bishop who once wrote, “Good hymns are an immense blessing to the Church. They train people for heaven, where praise is one of the principal occupations.”

The subject of hymns can elicit and stir up the “worship wars” — debates over music preferences in church and differences in style of song, particularly between traditional hymns and more contemporary selections. Many Christians have strong opinions on the matter, in fact some church congregations have literally split over the divide.

In reality, though, all hymns are not equal — and when one hears the word “hymn” they may think of a two-hundred or three-hundred-year-old song. But not Keith Getty. Hailing from Northern Ireland and married to Kristyn, who is also his musical partner, the Christian singer and songwriter has led the growth and expansion of the modern-hymn movement.

Composing and recording since 1995, Keith Getty has told interviewers his music is motivated and compelled by what he understands to be a biblical mandate.

“I think we have to remember that early in the Old Testament, Moses was commanded by God to teach the Hebrews through hymns (see Deuteronomy 31:19),” he told the Baptist Press. “In other words, what you sing doesn’t just affect how you think or how you feel or how you pray. It is presumed that singing will affect how you live your life. In fact, 20 percent of the Bible is songs. We learn from the Word of God that we’re created to sing.”







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