Dr. Jim Denison
Nearly six thousand students recently gathered for a mass worship event at Mississippi State University this month. In September 2023, five thousand students attended a mass worship service at Auburn University’s Neville Arena, and two hundred were spontaneously baptized. The event sparked a movement called “Unite US.” Over two thousand salvations and more than eight hundred baptisms have taken place at its events on American campuses over the last year.
We should rejoice at such good news at a time when pro-Palestinian protests and “woke” ideology continue to embroil many schools.
“We have such a need for love”
Charles Dickens famously wrote, “It was the best of times; it was the worst of times.” He could have been reading today’s news:
- Yahya Sinwar’s death was “a good day for Israel, for the United States, and for the world,” but Hezbollah and Iran vowed to escalate their war against Israel.
- Migrant crossings have plunged at the US–Mexico border, but the border crisis has led to an explosion in forced prostitution of immigrants in the US.
- The Economist calls America’s economy “bigger and better than ever,” but an aging population, the rise of artificial intelligence, and the “rewiring of the global economy” threaten our future.
The juxtaposition of good news and bad, of pleasure and pain, illustrates C. S. Lewis’s observation: “Our Father refreshes us on the journey with some pleasant inns, but will not encourage us to mistake them for home.” More Here