Brant Hansen

1 month ago | star991.com | Brant Hansen

A gentle reminder: The world is full of problems, injustices, and heartaches… and you’re not made to handle them. None of us are. C.S. Lewis saw what “the news” was doing to people decades ago: It is one of the evils of rapid diffusion of news that the sorrows of all the world come to us every morning.

Mar 3, 2025 | familylife.com | Voddie Baucham |Brant Hansen

Go Back to All Growing in Your Faith Resources Cultural apologists usually advocate one of three approaches to the issues that are currently redefining the culture in which we live. Either we can be isolated from our culture, immersed in our culture, or insulated in the midst of our culture. Each of these approaches can be illustrated by a diver’s relationship to the water.

Feb 27, 2025 | star991.com | Brant Hansen

Today is a crazy-busy news day, isn’t it? Am I right? I’m right. Thing is, I don’t know when you’re reading this, and you don’t know when I wrote this. And yet I’m right, because every day is a crazy-busy news day. I’m confident that if you turn on any news platform at this very moment, you’ll not find them saying, “Not a whole lot happening today. Maybe check back later…?” Every day is full of breaking news. Every day is a battle of ideas about important things.

Jan 21, 2025 | star991.com | Brant Hansen

Does prayer change what God does? Yep. Yes, it does, if the Bible is to believed. And the Bible is to be believed. There are so many examples, but try Exodus 32. God tells Moses that He’s going to destroy the Israelites because of their idol worship. But Moses intervenes and talks God out of it. In the King James Version, God “repents” in v. 14. (Look it up!) In the New Living Translation, it’s “changed his mind”. All because Moses faithfully interacted with him.

Jan 21, 2025 | star933.com | Brant Hansen

Does prayer change what God does? Yep. Yes, it does, if the Bible is to believed. And the Bible is to be believed. There are so many examples, but try Exodus 32. God tells Moses that He’s going to destroy the Israelites because of their idol worship. But Moses intervenes and talks God out of it. In the King James Version, God “repents” in v. 14. (Look it up!) In the New Living Translation, it’s “changed his mind”. All because Moses faithfully interacted with him.