Morning Rundown: Are 70% of Believers Afraid of the Future?
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Are 70% of Believers Afraid of the Future?
If the Bible teaches believers that they have already won the victory over the enemy, then why do a vast majority of them have a growing sense of fear for the future?
A recent study by Lifeway Research revealed that seven out of 10 U.S. Protestant pastors believe there is a growing sense of fear within their congregations about the future of the nation and the world.
Moreover, 63% of Protestant pastors say their churches have a similar dread, specifically about the future of Christianity in the U.S. and around the world.
Anne Graham Lotz and Daughter: Jesus’ Return is ‘Imminent’
Bible teacher Anne Graham Lotz and her daughter Rachel-Ruth Lotz Wright are on a mission to help prepare believers for Jesus’ imminent return.
“I don’t want to leave anything to chance,” Graham Lotz, the daughter of late evangelist Bill Graham, wrote on Facebook. “I want to be ready. I want to prepare now to meet Jesus.”
“Jesus is coming! All indicators point to the fact that His return is imminent. While expectancy among people of faith worldwide is at a fever pitch, I wonder if you and I are actually prepared for that world-changing, history-altering, heart-stopping moment in time,” Lotz Wright wrote on another social media post.
9 Signs That the U.S. Consumer Is About To Break
When the U.S. consumer is in healthy financial shape, the outlook for the U.S. economy is generally positive.
But just like we witnessed prior to the Great Recession of 2008 and 2009, when the U.S. consumer is not in healthy financial shape, bad things tend to happen. Unfortunately, the numbers are telling us that current conditions are eerily similar to what we experienced during the run up to the Great Recession.
Households don’t have enough money coming in, debt levels are soaring, delinquency rates are rising and tens of millions of us are just barely scraping by from month to month.
Read about what Jesus told us in the last day in Michael Youssef’s book, Is the End Near?{eoa}
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