With fires raging in the Amazon, hurricanes ripping across the Atlantic, and typhoons flooding Japan, our planet and our climate are sending us a message: We can no longer continue with business as usual.

The week starting September 20th, 350.org is organizing a Global Climate Strike, in association...

Getting your new business website ready for launch? Want a little hand-holding — a step-by-step tutorial on setting up a WordPress.com site from start to finish, that you can work on at your own pace and on your own time? “WordPress.com Fundamentals,” a comprehensive video course...

How can we increase gender representation in software engineering?

Our Developer Hiring Experience team analyzed this topic in a recent user-research study. The issue resonated with women engineers and a strong response enabled the team to gain deeper insight than is currently available from online...

Back in January, we partnered with Support Driven and launched the first version of the Learn User Support Workshop, which helps women in the Asia-Pacific region develop the skills they need to succeed in a technical support role. We had 24 students enrolled in our first cohort.

Today, we’re...

We heard you: You want bolder and brighter colors on WordPress.com. Today we’re bringing your WordPress.com dashboard to life with four new color schemes: introducing Midnight, Sunset, Ocean, and Contrast.

You may recognize some of these colors as old friends. Midnight, Sunset, and Ocean are...

If you’re like me, Stats is one of your most-visited screens in your WordPress app — we all want to know people are reading! Whether you use iOS or Android, the latest versions have Stat updates that bring you more useful data, faster. Updates to the layout, available statistics, and...

Costi Hinn and Anthony Wood write an excellent and thoroughly researched book titled Defining Deception.John MacArthur writes the book’s foreword. This book, which spans seven chapters, five appendices and a very loaded bibliography, carefully and thoroughly exposes false teachers, heretical...

Happy Pride Month! My favorite parts about celebrating this month are the stories shared from LGBTQ+ folks, their loved ones, and organizations looking to show support. At WordPress.com, we strive to be a platform that democratizes publishing so that anyone can share their stories regardless of...

A documentary/expose that tests both the biblical prophets and the prophets mentioned in the Book of Mormon, Joel Kramer, the engine behind Sourceflix (formerly known as Living Hope Ministries) dialogues with a Mormon friend named Greg Gifford in The Bible vs. Joseph Smith. In this...

Someone recently asked me about Luke 10:19 as it pertained to what it means to trample on snakes and scorpions. Below is my response:

RESPONSE

In order to best understand Luke 10:19, one must understand it in its context. For that reason, one should read Luke 10:1-37 (NASB):

Now after this the...

For my inaugural “song review” post, I review “Good Grace” by Hillsong United. Hillsong United released this song in December 2018. It has reached as high as #11 on the U.S. Christian music chart. Joel Houston wrote this song’s lyrics and music.

As for my reasoning for...

The late D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones’ book Spiritual Depression: Its Causes and Cure is a compilation of twenty-one consecutive Sunday sermons preached by Lloyd-Jones in Westminster Chapel in London. A lengthy read clocking in at about three hundred pages, this meaty book biblically addresses the...

If philosophy indeed buried God, then Christians are basically most to be pitied (1 Corinthians 15:13-19). However, Jesus Christ died a real death on a real cross for real sin (Isaiah 53:5-6; 1 Timothy 1:15; Luke 23:33-24:12; John 1:29; Romans 3:23; Romans 6:23; Luke 19:10). He also rose again and...

Sharing is a core part of the iOS experience, and WordPress is committed to helping people share their stories, products, or services freely and widely.  So when the fine folks at Shiny Frog—makers of the excellent writing app Bear—asked for an easier way turn Bear notes into...

***DISCLAIMER*** I received this book for free from Moody Publishers to review.

Dean Inserra’s The Unsaved Christian: Reaching Cultural Christianity With The Gospel represents the tenth book I have reviewed for Moody Publishers. Spanning fifteen chapters plus a few miscellaneous sections...

Robert D. Jones writes a must-own of a book titled Uprooting Anger: Biblical Help For a Common Problem. This book, spanning ten chapters and two “appendix” sections, explains the concept of anger, the importance of dealing with anger, helping others deal with anger, how to change...

Your question is somewhat in line with this question here. People choose whether or not they want to be in the Lamb’s Book of Life. It should be noted that people are born dead in trespasses and sins (Ephesians 2:1-3). Dead people cannot do anything to save themselves, especially since...

Keeping your visitors interested is the key to a successful website—and one great way to do that is with email. A smart email outreach plan piques peoples’ interest, keeps them engaged, and brings them back to your website.

To send emails, you need a mailing list, and Mailchimp is the...

I turn back the clock for this book review on F. LaGard Smith’sSodom’s Second Coming: What You Need To Know About The Deadly Homosexual Assault. Published in 1993, this book explores various aspects of the homosexual agenda. Smith, a retired law professor, explores these aspects using...

A documentary by Holy Bible Prophecy, Church Of Tares explores both the purpose-driven and seeker-sensitive movements. It also looks at the movements’ ideas of church growth. Finally, it looks at the supposed New World Order that Saddleback Church pastor Rick Warren is looking to create.

Speaki...

Your website’s dashboard should be as welcoming to you as your website’s home page is to your visitors. One way to do that? Customize your WordPress.com dashboard with color schemes.

Today, you’ve got three new options for adding a little behind-the-scenes zing: introducing Powder...

Distributed teams, different geographies, and complex dynamics are redefining the modern workday. Soon, “job perks” like flexible hours and work-from-anywhere will become table-stakes benefits that every company needs to offer to stay competitive.

WordPress.com’s parent company...

A documentary by Holy Bible Prophecy, The Real Roots Of The Emergent Church explores how the Emergent Church, well, emerged to become one of the most controversial and blasphemous “churches” in America today. With a runtime of about two hours and a minute, this documentary features the...

Wretched.Org’s Drunk In The Spirit primarily analyzes the unbiblical movement known as the New Apostolic Reformation (henceforth referred to as the N.A.R.) in addition to Jesus Culture, the “worship” band from Bethel Redding (pastored by Bill Johnson) in Redding, CA. The resource...

Recently, I viewed a video source called Snatch Them From the Flames. Wretched.Org created this source. It is basically an eleven-chapter conversation about the New Apostolic Reformation and Prosperity Gospel. Justin Peters and Todd Friel (the host of Wretched) have this conversation. These...