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Praises and Prayer Requests – April 2015

April 1st, 2015
Thank you for praying for us. This month please specifically pray for: 1. Site users. Our traffic continues to increase, and Easter is an especially busy time. Please pray that the site would work well, that users would find what they are looking for and more importantly what they need to see. Pray that God will use the site for His glory. 2. Fellow writers. Please continue to pray for the team, both in regards to their service with Got Questions Ministries and in their personal lives. 3. Good use of resources. We are grateful for all the . . .

Encouragements from March 2015

April 1st, 2015
From one of our writers (Corpuz Ramil): Our article in Tagalog about suicide shared on Facebook has been used by the Lord to change the mind of a reader who's contemplating to commit suicide. She personally told me that it was after reading the article that she realized that her life is precious and she must continue to live for his children and for the Lord. She is regularly communicating with me on FB and always shares our articles with others. She has heard the Gospel before but she didn't understand it until she browsed our Tagalog site for . . .

Site news – Updated look

April 1st, 2015

You may have noticed that GotQuestions.org and Blogos.org have new designs (CompellingTruth.org will soon). In order to be “mobile-friendly” so that our articles will appear in searches performed on mobile devices, we needed to make a few shifts. We also hope the changes give the sites a fresh, clean look. As always, please let us know if you run across any problems or glitches on any of the sites.

Update on Trip to Brazil with Compassion

April 1st, 2015
STAFF NEWS Several of our staff members traveled to Fortaleza, Brazil with Compassion International in March to see the work being done there. They were encouraged to see the ways God is using Compassion to speak into the lives of many Brazilian children. You can read more about the trip in MeLissa's and Shea's blogs on Blogos.org. They also got to meet many of our Got Questions Portuguese translators. Portuguese is our second biggest language, and the team is doing a great job. You can see pictures of the gathering here. It was a great trip! If . . .

Q&A of the Month – April 2015

April 1st, 2015
Question: When and why did an unchanging God change his mind on punishments he handed out in the O T then decided after Jesus came, an unchanging God cannot change his mind or he cannot be God? Answered by: Frank Shimkus III, who has been a volunteer with us since April 2005. Answer: Hello, and thank you for your question. I can understand your confusion when it comes to this question, as many, like you, have been befuddled by some of the language found in the Old Testament, especially Jonah where it says God changed His mind, when compared . . .

Q&A – Undercover Work and Lies

April 1st, 2015
John Edward Rasmussen 18 hrs Hey all, looking for some help on a question. I'm past-due because I'm behind on - well, everything in life right now! Lol. But the question I'm working on is this - "Would it be a sin for an undercover police officer, or a CIA agent, or someone like that to lie to do their job? Thanks." Any thoughts? My instinct is to say "yes", because I'm not for the idea of "the ends justify the means", but I'm not sure how to express this principle scripturally in this case. Like · Comment Seen . . .

Jesus and Paul on Government

March 30th, 2015
Wendyl Leslie March 29 at 6:36am Here's a question that's sure to generate some thoughtful discussion: Do the words of Jesus in Luke 13:32 contradict the words of Paul in Romans 13:1-2? Seeing the climate of our current government, I war with this issue especially in light of Jesus' words regarding king Herod. Like · Comment Seen by 32 Justin Tilghman I think you have two different situations here in Scripture. Jesus is not resisting Herod. Herod is trying to kill Him . . .

The Church being a light yet this world not being its home

March 29th, 2015
Ed Chait March 27 at 6:31pm How can the Church be a light to the nations if the world is not the Church's home? Like · Comment Seen by 28 Robert Lowry The church is supposed to live in the world (for now) but not be of the world. So it will be the light to the nations until the rapture. After that, the job falls to the 144,000 Jewish evangelists, the Two Witnesses, and angels flhying around in the heavens making evangelistic announcements. March 27 at 6:34pm · Like Ed . . .

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