(Maryville Baptist Church)
- Kentucky must pay $270K for banning large worship gatherings during pandemic: appeals court
A federal appeals court has upheld a lower court ruling ordering Kentucky to pay more than $270,000 in legal fees in response to a lawsuit ove
r Gov. Any Beshear’s Lockdown worship r
estrictions.
A ruling handed down by a here judge panel on the 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals upholds a district court’s decision ordering Kentucky to pay $272,142.50 in legal fees to plaintiffs the government unconstitutional lockdown order.
- How Many Tithe?
77% of U.S. Protestants believe the biblical command to give 10% is to the right thing to do. But that’s not what they really do.
- About 31% said they give a full tithe.
- 19% said they donate more than 10% of their earnings.
- About 19% said they regularly give less than a full tithe.
- 22% said they are inconsistent in their giving said their finances make it difficult for them to give.
- Disturbing Drop in Bible Reading in America
Bible reading has dropped from a pandemic-era high of 50% in 2021 to 39% of Americans in 2023.
Fewer that one-fourth of Americans, or 24%, read the bible at least once a week apart from a church service.
This is the annual summary from the American Bible Society.
They found:
- 44% believe the country would be “worse off” without the Bible.
- 41% thought the nation would be the same.
- 14% of the survey respondents said the country would be better for losing Scriptures entirely.
- Radical Political Agenda, Christians Abandon Mainline Denominations
America’s largest Presbyterian denomination, the Presbyterian Church (USA), reported another year of declines with more that 4% of its membership leaving.
The Church lost 53,105 members in 2022, up from losing around 51,000 last year.
In the past seven years, the denomination has lost 342,000 people.
Since 2016, the PCUSA has lost 747 congregations, dropping its number of churches to 8,704. Departures come as the 40-year-old denomination last year adopted controversial positions on Israel last year and said it would count “nonbinary” and “genderqueer” members in a separate membership listing.
- Hate Alert: Oppose Obscene Material in Public Schools? You are a “Christian White Supremacist.”
Assemblyman Dr. Cory Jackson in defending a law that removes local control and gives only the California state Board of Education authority to remove obscene material from public schools.
He said those who oppose the State’s power grab are part of the: “Christian white supremacist movement that aims to ban books.”