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New book, a devotional called ‘Light for Today,’ may help open eyes to God ‘as a living reality’

Lauren Green, Fox News Channel’s chief religion correspondent, said the third millennium will be a time of “unity” for Christianity as different denominations learn from each other, especially as the culture becomes increasingly secular. I believe.

“Here’s my theory,” Greene told Fox News Digital in a phone interview this week. “The first millennium of Christianity was about, ‘Who is Christ? Let’s figure it all out.'”

The second is that since the Protestant Reformation, thousands of different denominations have emerged, and “everyone is disbanding and being thrown out,” she said.

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“I think this 3000th year is truly a time of unity,” she said. “It’s coming back. It’s an excuse. It’s a culture steeped in Christianity that just breathes the Christian air and doesn’t understand why we believe what we believe.” That’s not the point.”

She continued, “I think there’s a movement to really educate people and make them understand who God is and who Jesus is.”

Lauren Green is Fox News Channel’s chief religion correspondent and author of the new devotional Light for Today (Broadstreet Publishing Group). (Fox News/Image)

Non-Protestant churches also employ similar teaching positions commonly found in Protestant congregations, Professor Green noted. Just as some Protestant churches embrace more traditional liturgical practices as evidence of how Christians recognize the value of each other’s practices.

In her new book, “Light for Today,” a 365-day devotional book, Ms. Green helps people understand God’s work not only during religious services but in their daily lives, and as a result, God We would like to help you deepen your understanding of.

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Green said she didn’t initially set out to write a religious book. Instead, she thought she was just posting her own thoughts and her positive thoughts on her Facebook page every day.

After writing her last book, Lighthouse Faith: God as a Living Reality in a World Soaked in Mist, she realized she still had a lot to say, so she kept writing.

“I spent years researching and reading, but I was still doing research and reading in my head,” she said.

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Green said the third millennium could be a time for different Christian groups to come together. (St. Petersburg)

“I wanted to deepen my faith through writing,” she says. It ended up being a reflection she shared on social media.

Years later, Green estimates she has published more than 450 of these thoughts on her Facebook page.

Eventually, a publisher asked if she would consider writing a devotional book, and Green realized she already had a lot of work done.

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“I said, ‘Maybe what I thought about that day could be nicely compiled into a 365-day devotion,'” she told Fox News Digital.

Through his dedication, Mr. Green aims to drive home the point that “God is a living reality.”

This, she says, “is shaping your life to the reality of God,” which she calls “an incredible challenge to be a person of faith and to understand who God is.” “It’s about truly understanding who God is and shaping your life to align with this God.” ”

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Lauren Greene’s new 365-day devotional, Light for Today, is designed to help people find and recognize God in life’s ordinary, everyday moments. (Broadstreet Publishing)

Green also wants to remind people that God is in control of natural processes. So even though miracles like the splitting of the Red Sea are not commonplace, that does not mean God does not exist.

“I think I was fascinated by really looking at the mundane parts of life and seeing if I could challenge myself every day to move closer to God instead of farther away from Him,” Green said. Ta.

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In today’s world, people of faith sometimes have a tendency to “put God in a box,” she said.

We need the mindset that “God is the center and God is first.”

Rather, she said, “this devotional is this way of getting back to seeing God in the everyday.” Not for an hour or two on the weekend.

Instead, she said, we need to have a “God-centered, God-first mindset.”

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Green said we must strive to resist the temptation to “make God a concept” that we can control rather than “a living reality in which we must shape our lives.” (St. Petersburg)

She says we must strive to resist the temptation to make God a controllable “concept,” rather than “a living reality around which we must shape our lives.”

Green explained that it all comes back to putting God first.

“The Law and the Ten Commandments are all about keeping God first,” she said. “They relate first to the first commandment and then to each other.”

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Greene said, “The first commandment is, ‘I am the Lord your God, and you shall have no other gods before me.'” That’s the understanding of who this God is. This is the key to ”

“Light for Today: 365 Daily Devotions from the Lighthouse – Hope and Wisdom for Life” (February 2024) follows Greene’s previous book, “Lighthouse Faith,” released in 2017.

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Greene joined Fox News Channel in 1996. She is also the host of a weekly podcast. “Lighthouse Faith”

She broadcast live from Rome in 2013 about the election of Pope Francis and the resignation of Pope Benedict XVI. Additionally, she livestreamed the beatification of Pope John Paul II from Rome in 2011 and the visit of Pope Benedict XVI to the United States in 2008.

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