HOLLAND — A national nonprofit is launching an anti-Trump billboard campaign targeting Christian voters in the Holland and Grand Rapids area.

The campaign, called “His Words Matter,” is an effort by the liberal evangelical group Vote Common Good to persuade Christian voters that the things President Donald Trump has said on the campaign trail and in office “stand in opposition to the words of Jesus Christ.”

The billboards juxtapose quotes from the president with the words of Jesus.

One billboard, for example, shows an image of Jesus with the phrase “Turn the other cheek,” drawn from Jesus’s words in Matthew 5:39, next to an image of Trump and the words “I’d like to punch him in the face,” a comment Trump made about a protester who was removed from one of his 2016 campaign rallies.

“What we’re trying to do is make sure that people in the Grand Rapids-Holland area have a chance to really talk about how Donald Trump’s behavior as president and his public statements sit in relationship to how they hold their own Christian faith,” said Doug Pagitt, executive director of Vote Common Good. “We
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HOLLAND — A national nonprofit is launching an anti-Trump billboard campaign targeting Christian voters in the Holland and Grand Rapids area.

The campaign, called “His Words Matter,” is an effort by the liberal evangelical group Vote Common Good to persuade Christian voters that the things President Donald Trump has said on the campaign trail and in office “stand in opposition to the words of Jesus Christ.”

The billboards juxtapose quotes from the president with the words of Jesus.

One billboard, for example, shows an image of Jesus with the phrase “Turn the other cheek,” drawn from Jesus’s words in Matthew 5:39, next to an image of Trump and the words “I’d like to punch him in the face,” a comment Trump made about a protester who was removed from one of his 2016 campaign rallies.

“What we’re trying to do is make sure that people in the Grand Rapids-Holland area have a chance to really talk about how Donald Trump’s behavior as president and his public statements sit in relationship to how they hold their own Christian faith,” said Doug Pagitt, executive director of Vote Common Good. “We thought to contrast his public statements with quotes from Jesus would be an effective way for people to be invited into that conversation.”

Vote Common Good is spending $75,000 on seven billboards in Holland and Grand Rapids that will remain up through Election Day.

The billboards in the Holland area are located along U.S. 31 and near Adams Street and 104th Avenue.

The organization also recently held
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WASHINGTON (AP) — A group of prominent Christians from both sides of the aisle, including a past faith adviser to former President Barack Obama, is forming a political action committee designed to chip away at Christian support for President Donald Trump in the final weeks of the 2020 campaign.

Dubbed Not Our Faith, the new super PAC plans to roll out six-figure TV and digital ads focused on Christian voters — particularly the evangelical and Catholic voters who helped power Trump to victory in 2016. Its first digital ad, set to run in Michigan and Pennsylvania, takes sharp aim at Trump’s claim to a foothold with Christians.

The ad, shared with The Associated Press in advance of its release, says Trump “has used Christianity for his own purposes,” invoking imagery of the Republican president’s photo op outside a historic Washington church amid this summer’s racial justice demonstrations. Urging Christians to break from Trump, the ad states that they “don’t need Trump to save them. The truth is that Trump needs Christians to save his flailing campaign.”

That sharp critique of Trump’s standing with Christian voters comes as the president looks to evangelicals in particular to help him muscle to reelection over Democratic nominee Joe Biden. While Biden’s campaign is mounting a well-organized faith outreach effort, that work largely focuses on an affirmative case for the former vice president rather
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WASHINGTON (AP) — A group of prominent Christians from both sides of the aisle, including a past faith adviser to former President Barack Obama, is forming a political action committee designed to chip away at Christian support for President Donald Trump in the final weeks of the 2020 campaign.

Dubbed Not Our Faith, the new super PAC plans to roll out six-figure TV and digital ads focused on Christian voters — particularly the evangelical and Catholic voters who helped power Trump to victory in 2016. Its first digital ad, set to run in Michigan and Pennsylvania, takes sharp aim at Trump’s claim to a foothold with Christians.

The ad, shared with The Associated Press in advance of its release, says Trump “has used Christianity for his own purposes,” invoking imagery of the Republican president’s photo op outside a historic Washington church amid this summer’s racial justice demonstrations. Urging Christians to break from Trump, the ad states that they “don’t need Trump to save them. The truth is that Trump needs Christians to save his flailing campaign.”

That sharp critique of Trump’s standing with Christian voters comes as the president looks to evangelicals in particular to help him muscle to reelection over Democratic nominee Joe Biden. While Biden’s campaign is mounting a well-organized faith outreach effort, that work largely focuses on an affirmative case for the former vice president rather than the overtly anti-Trump
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Former transgender, lesbian, and gay individuals who have left the LGBTQ lifestyle by the power of the Holy Spirit are taking part in a freedom march this weekend. 

The event was started in 2018 by Jeffrey McCall who once lived as a transgender woman but has come to know Jesus Christ and His unfailing love.

This year’s freedom march, called “Freedom Family Weekend”, will be held in Lawrenceville, Georgia and is open to everyone. 

Those participating in the event will share their testimonies, pray together, and offer hope to those in search of salvation.

McCall once told CBN News, “The reason I started the Freedom March was because I felt like all of these stories of people that left the LGBT lifestyle needed to be heard. It sends a statement and gets these stories out there.”

During an interview with the Christian Post, McCall said he has seen a rise in response from people this summer who were ready to leave the LGBTQ lifestyle and follow God. 

“Probably around June or July we started, both in the Freedom March email inbox and in my ministry, For Such a Time, hearing from people that we did not know, saying that they wanted to leave the LGBTQ lifestyle,” McCall said. “Several of them said they had supernatural encounters with God and they heard the Lord speak Scriptures to them. Others just heard Him say ‘Leave the life’.”

“We’ve had the most activity that I’ve ever seen in my years of ministry,”
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I want my friend to believe this, but some days I am not sure I do. Many Americans do not see this as an ordinary election between two candidates committed to basic principles of decency, civility, truth, science, reason and human dignity. This is not a choice between Mitt Romney and Barack Obama or Al Gore and George W. Bush or Bill Clinton and Bob Dole.