Faith Facts

• God still uses dreams, visions, and the gifts of the Spirit to guide His people.
• These gifts serve as supplements to Scripture, not replacements for it.
• Believers become unstable and easily misled when spiritual experiences override the written Word.

Believers are rightly thankful that the Holy Spirit continues to move among God’s people. Dreams, visions, and prophetic words remain part of the Christian walk for many sincere followers of Jesus Christ.

Yet Scripture makes clear that these experiences are meant to support, not supplant, the authority of the Bible itself. When personal revelation becomes the main course rather than a side dish, discernment quickly fades.

Christians who weigh every claimed word against the plain teaching of Scripture guard their hearts from confusion and error. The Bible remains the unchanging standard by which all other messages are tested.

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Faith Facts

• Erwin Lutzer, longtime pastor of The Moody Church, coauthored a new book contrasting the worldviews of Karl Marx and Dwight L. Moody.
• The book examines how each man’s beliefs shaped history and society in lasting ways.
• Lutzer highlights the stark difference between Marxist ideology and the gospel-centered message of Moody.

Erwin Lutzer, the 85-year-old author and former longtime senior pastor of The Moody Church in Chicago, Illinois, has coauthored a book that contrasts the very different lives, legacies, and worldviews of 19th century contemporaries Karl Marx and Dwight L. Moody.

The work places the two men side by side to show how their beliefs produced opposite results. One path led to class struggle and atheistic revolution, while the other led to revival and personal transformation through faith in Christ.

“Karl Marx and Dwight L. Moody were contemporaries, yet their lives and legacies could not be more different,”

“One sought to remake the world through the power of the state, while the other called people to repentance and faith in Jesus Christ.”

Readers are invited to consider how ideas have consequences and why the gospel remains the true hope for individuals and nations.

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Faith Facts

• Many Christians who abandon the faith cite a lack of spiritual depth in their churches rather than external cultural pressure.
• A former Muslim who converted to Christianity now warns that blaming converts for leaving only hides the need for genuine repentance within the Church.
• True renewal begins when the Church focuses on internal repentance and spiritual vitality rather than external political fights.

Christians who leave the faith for Islam often face the quick judgment that they were never truly saved. Yet a former Muslim now serving as a Christian apologist says that easy dismissal misses the real problem.

The Church, he argues, must look inward before pointing outward. When believers drift toward another religion, the first question should not be about the convert’s sincerity but about the spiritual health of the congregations they left behind.

“When Christians leave the faith for Islam, it’s tempting to say they were never truly believers.”

That statement, while common, allows churches to avoid uncomfortable self-examination. The former Muslim insists the more painful and necessary response is for congregations to ask why their teaching, worship, and community failed to hold fast to those now walking away.

Political activism and culture-war victories cannot substitute for the hard work of repentance and renewal inside the body of Christ. The former Muslim argues that spiritual vitality, sound doctrine, and authentic discipleship are the only lasting answers to the drift toward Islam.

Without those foundations, even the strongest political arguments will ring hollow to searching hearts.

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