By Adrian VanVactor,
FaithSearch Evangelist

Saying that 2020 has been an interesting year for ministries and churches worldwide would be a gross understatement. Doing church during the pandemic has changed radically.  Technology now plays an essential role in feeding the body of Christ.  

Ravi Zacharias: India-born Christian evangelist and apologist whose intellect, winsomeness, and grasp of diverse cultures helped him to gain a global hearing for the Gospel of Jesus Christ. Zacharias died May 19, 2020, at the age of seventy-four. 

Parts for the Heart?

There are service departments with parts to fix everything from watches to cars. What about parts for human hearts? Japanese medical researchers have performed the first transplant of lab-grown human heart cells. Adult stem cells were induced to become heart cells growing on biodegradable sheets. The sheets are attached to an ailing heart with the goal that healthy cells will replace the defective ones. If the technique works, it would be a major breakthrough to reduce reliance on whole-organ transplants. Unlike embryonic stem cells, the use of adult stem cells does not require the destruction of a human life and is consistent with God’s intent that we exercise dominion over His creation (Genesis 1:28). 

Source: Answers Magazine, July-Aug 2020, Vol. 15, No. 3, p. 20

Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet

By Dr. Oleg Voskresensky,
FaithSearch Russian Evangelist

I am often asked for historical and archeological proofs of certain events and stories from the Bible while I am teaching classes on the “Historic Foundations of Christian Faith” in Russian public schools and state universities. It is one thing when the biblical text describes events from two or even four thousand years ago with details and descriptions that could only be known to an eyewitness or, at least, someone in the eyewitness generation.