Friday Church News Notes
April 10, 2026 - Volume 27, Issue 15
The Friday Church News Notes is designed for use in churches and is published by Way of Life Literature. Unless otherwise stated, the Notes are written by David Cloud. Of necessity we quote from a wide variety of sources, though this does not imply an endorsement.
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ARTEMIS II PILOT ISSUES NEW AGE UNITY EASTER MESSAGE (Friday Church News Notes, April 10, 2026, www.wayoflife.org fbns@wayoflife.org, 866-295-4143) - While flying toward the moon on April 4, the pilot of Artemis II, Victor Glover, talked about creation and the Bible and Easter Sunday, but he had no gospel message for a lost and dying world. He said, “As we are so far from Earth and looking at the beauty of creation, I think, for me, one of the really important personal perspectives that I have up here is I can really see the Earth as one thing. When I read the Bible and I look at all the amazing things that were done for us. ... You guys are talking to us because we’re in a spaceship really far from earth, but you’re on a spaceship called Earth that was created to give us a place to live in the universe and the cosmos. ... And I’m trying to tell you--just trust me--you are special. In all of this emptiness--this is a whole bunch of nothing, this thing we call the universe--you have this oasis, this beautiful place that we get to exist together” (“Artemis II Astronaut,” Fox News, Apr. 5, 2026). This sounds like a preparation for the gospel message, but instead the astronaut went on to say, “I think, as we go into Easter Sunday, thinking about all the cultures all around the world, whether you celebrate it [Christ’s resurrection] or not, whether you believe in God or not, this is an opportunity for us to remember where we are, who we are, and that we are the same thing, and that we’ve gotta get through this together.” It’s true that we are all the same thing, because “all have sinned and come short of the glory of God” (Romans 3:23), and “the wages of sin is death” (Romans 6:23). Faith in the gospel of Jesus Christ--that Christ died for our sins according to the Scripture, and that he was buried, and that He rose again the third day according to the Scripture” (1 Corinthians 15:23)--is the only path of knowing God in truth and the only path of escaping divine judgment. It’s too bad this glorious message wasn’t proclaimed to the inhabitants of the “spaceship called Earth.”
TRUMP’S PASTOR LIKENS HIM TO JESUS (Friday Church News Notes, April 10, 2026, www.wayoflife.org fbns@wayoflife.org, 866-295-4143) - At a lunch at the White House on April 1, Paula White-Cain likened President Trump to Jesus Christ. Claiming to speak by divine revelation, she said, “I felt like I was conveying the heart of God for all of us, that we are thankful for the greatest champion of faith that we’ve ever seen in a president. ... the truth of it is, you [Trump] are here because of God and because of you. ... Jesus taught so many lessons through His death, burial and resurrection. He showed us great leadership, great transformation requires great sacrifice. And Mr. President, no one has paid the price like you have paid the price” (“Paula White-Cain likens Trump to Jesus,” Christian Post, Apr. 2, 2026). White-Cain said that God told her to inform Trump “that because of His victory, you will be victorious in all you put your hand to.” This is full-blown, one-world church apostasy. Trump thanked her “as Robert Jeffress, senior pastor of First Baptist Dallas, patted his arm and said, ‘Amen, that is so true.’” Franklin Graham was present and remained silent in the face of this gross heresy and even led this mixed multitude in prayer for God’s blessing. Paula White-Cain, “Senior Advisor to the White House Faith Office and Trump’s longtime spiritual advisor,” delivered the invocation at Trump’s first inauguration. Paula and her second husband, Randy White, were co-pastors of Without Walls International, a multi-location church in Tampa and Lakeland, Florida, but they divorced in 2007 and the operation folded. “A Senate report found that the couple had used tax-exempt ministry money to pay for a private jet, salaries to family members and nearly $900,000 for a waterfront mansion” (“Who Is Paula White-Cain?” Newsweek, Feb. 7, 2025). In 2015, Paula married Jonathan Cain, the third marriage for both. After the wedding, she tweeted, “We’re so excited to share our wedding vows and celebration with our church family tonight.” Her “vows” must be something like, “I vow to remain married to you until I don’t want to remain married to you.” At Unleashed 2016, Jonathan advised women that “if he [your husband] likes to watch porn, watch porn with him.” At this foolish, wicked, unscriptural statement, Paula laughed (Tennessean, May 7, 2018). Paula White-Cain exemplifies American Christianity today, and this is the nation’s fundamental problem. The grace these people preach is not the true grace of God as described in Titus 2:11-14. It is the “live according to your own lusts” Christianity prophesied in 2 Timothy 4:3-4. Try bringing up the subject of modest dress or worldly music or drinking and see what happens. “For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine; but after their own lusts shall they heap to themselves teachers, having itching ears; And they shall turn away their ears from the truth, and shall be turned unto fables.”
CHRISTIAN PHOTOGRAPHER WINS $800,000 SETTLEMENT (Friday Church News Notes, April 10, 2026, www.wayoflife.org fbns@wayoflife.org, 866-295-4143) - The following is excerpted from “Christian Photographer,” Christianity Daily, Mar. 28, 2026: “A Christian photographer who declined to provide services for same-sex weddings has secured a significant legal settlement following a prolonged dispute over a local nondiscrimination ordinance she argued would conflict with her religious beliefs. Officials in Louisville agreed to pay $800,000 in legal fees to photographer Chelsey Nelson as part of the resolution. The agreement, submitted Tuesday to the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Kentucky in its Louisville division, follows a ruling issued six months earlier in which the court sided with Nelson in her challenge to the city’s ordinance banning discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity. Nelson, who identifies as a committed Christian and affirms a traditional biblical view of marriage between one man and one woman, initiated the lawsuit out of concern that the ordinance would require her to photograph same-sex weddings against her convictions. She argued that the policy violated protections under the First Amendment, specifically the Free Speech and Free Exercise clauses, along with the Kentucky Religious Freedom Restoration Act. A federal judge ultimately ruled in her favor last fall.”
SUPREME COURT SUPPORTS FREE SPEECH IN RULING AGAINST COLORADO LAW (Friday Church News Notes, April 10, 2026, www.wayoflife.org fbns@wayoflife.org, 866-295-4143) - The following is excerpted from “In Ruling Against Colorado,” Crosswalk, Apr. 1, 2026: “Yesterday, the Supreme Court ruled in Chiles v. Salazar, a case that challenged a law that prohibited licensed counselors from helping clients, specifically children, reconcile their identity with their sex through talk therapy. The 8-1 decision included all of the Court’s conservative Justices and two of its liberal Justices. Because Colorado’s law would restrict speech based on viewpoint, the Court held, it violates the First Amendment. The plaintiff in the case is Kaley Chiles, a Colorado-based counselor who provides talk therapy to her patients. As the Court explained, talk therapy is speech. It does not involve physical treatments or medical prescriptions. It consists only of “the spoken word.” In counseling patients, including children, Chiles often discusses issues of sexual orientation and gender identity. Under Colorado’s law, Chiles could express ‘acceptance’ and ‘support’ of a child’s ‘identity exploration.’ She could even ‘assist’ a child in transitioning his or her ‘gender.’ However, she was forbidden from saying anything to ‘change’ sexual orientation or helping a child feel comfortable with his or her God-given sex. That, the Court recognized, is flat-out viewpoint discrimination. Justice Gorsuch, who wrote the majority opinion for the Court, called Colorado’s law an ‘egregious’ and ‘blatant’ violation of the First Amendment.”
PLANT AND BACTERIA COMMUNICATE (Friday Church News Notes, April 10, 2026, www.wayoflife.org fbns@wayoflife.org, 866-295-4143) - The following is from CreationMoments.com, March 27, 2026: “Some people talk to their plants. But what do you say to a bacterium? Evidently, the soybean plant knows just what to say to make bacteria its close friend and helper. Symbiosis means a relationship between two different creatures in which they both help each other. Plants need nitrogen for healthy growth. However, while there is more than enough nitrogen in the air, plants normally can’t make use of that nitrogen. Legumes, like soybeans, link up with bacteria that are able to take nitrogen from the air and turn it into a form of nitrogen that plants, including the soybean, can use. In return, the plant creates a nice home for the bacteria in nodes in its roots and provides the bacteria with food. The bacteria need a great deal of oxygen and energy to fix nitrogen into the soil. The oxygen is supplied by heme. If that name reminds you of the hemoglobin that carries oxygen in blood, you’re on the right track. That’s why the heme in the nodules turns them reddish. Who makes the heme, the soybean, or the bacteria? When alone, neither creature has any heme. Researchers have learned that the plant performs the first part of the chemistry needed to make heme and the bacterium finishes the job. The plant and the bacterium actually communicate chemically with each other so that production goes smoothly! Communication between such different creatures, allowing them to perform sophisticated chemistry to improve both of their lives, shows how inadequate evolution is to explain life. This arrangement surely glorifies the Creator! REF: Pennisi, E. ‘Intimate chemistry of a symbiotic odd couple,’ Science News.”
CONCLUSION: The Friday Church News Notes is designed for use in churches and is published by Way of Life Literature’s Fundamental Baptist Information Service. Unless otherwise stated, the Notes are written by David Cloud. Of necessity we quote from a wide variety of sources, but this obviously does not imply an endorsement. We trust that our readers will not be discouraged. It is God’s will that we know the times (1 Ch. 12:32; Mt. 16:3) and that we be as wise as serpents and harmless as doves. The News Notes remind us that the hour is very late, and we need to be ready for the Lord’s coming. Are you sure that you are born again? Are you living for Christ? “And that, knowing the time, that now it is high time to awake out of sleep: for now is our salvation nearer than when we believed. The night is far spent, the day is at hand: let us therefore cast off the works of darkness, and let us put on the armour of light. Let us walk honestly, as in the day; not in rioting and drunkenness, not in chambering and wantonness, not in strife and envying. But put ye on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make not provision for the flesh, to fulfil the lusts thereof” (Ro. 13:11-14).
TRUMP’S PASTOR LIKENS HIM TO JESUS (Friday Church News Notes, April 10, 2026, www.wayoflife.org fbns@wayoflife.org, 866-295-4143) - At a lunch at the White House on April 1, Paula White-Cain likened President Trump to Jesus Christ. Claiming to speak by divine revelation, she said, “I felt like I was conveying the heart of God for all of us, that we are thankful for the greatest champion of faith that we’ve ever seen in a president. ... the truth of it is, you [Trump] are here because of God and because of you. ... Jesus taught so many lessons through His death, burial and resurrection. He showed us great leadership, great transformation requires great sacrifice. And Mr. President, no one has paid the price like you have paid the price” (“Paula White-Cain likens Trump to Jesus,” Christian Post, Apr. 2, 2026). White-Cain said that God told her to inform Trump “that because of His victory, you will be victorious in all you put your hand to.” This is full-blown, one-world church apostasy. Trump thanked her “as Robert Jeffress, senior pastor of First Baptist Dallas, patted his arm and said, ‘Amen, that is so true.’” Franklin Graham was present and remained silent in the face of this gross heresy and even led this mixed multitude in prayer for God’s blessing. Paula White-Cain, “Senior Advisor to the White House Faith Office and Trump’s longtime spiritual advisor,” delivered the invocation at Trump’s first inauguration. Paula and her second husband, Randy White, were co-pastors of Without Walls International, a multi-location church in Tampa and Lakeland, Florida, but they divorced in 2007 and the operation folded. “A Senate report found that the couple had used tax-exempt ministry money to pay for a private jet, salaries to family members and nearly $900,000 for a waterfront mansion” (“Who Is Paula White-Cain?” Newsweek, Feb. 7, 2025). In 2015, Paula married Jonathan Cain, the third marriage for both. After the wedding, she tweeted, “We’re so excited to share our wedding vows and celebration with our church family tonight.” Her “vows” must be something like, “I vow to remain married to you until I don’t want to remain married to you.” At Unleashed 2016, Jonathan advised women that “if he [your husband] likes to watch porn, watch porn with him.” At this foolish, wicked, unscriptural statement, Paula laughed (Tennessean, May 7, 2018). Paula White-Cain exemplifies American Christianity today, and this is the nation’s fundamental problem. The grace these people preach is not the true grace of God as described in Titus 2:11-14. It is the “live according to your own lusts” Christianity prophesied in 2 Timothy 4:3-4. Try bringing up the subject of modest dress or worldly music or drinking and see what happens. “For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine; but after their own lusts shall they heap to themselves teachers, having itching ears; And they shall turn away their ears from the truth, and shall be turned unto fables.”
CHRISTIAN PHOTOGRAPHER WINS $800,000 SETTLEMENT (Friday Church News Notes, April 10, 2026, www.wayoflife.org fbns@wayoflife.org, 866-295-4143) - The following is excerpted from “Christian Photographer,” Christianity Daily, Mar. 28, 2026: “A Christian photographer who declined to provide services for same-sex weddings has secured a significant legal settlement following a prolonged dispute over a local nondiscrimination ordinance she argued would conflict with her religious beliefs. Officials in Louisville agreed to pay $800,000 in legal fees to photographer Chelsey Nelson as part of the resolution. The agreement, submitted Tuesday to the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Kentucky in its Louisville division, follows a ruling issued six months earlier in which the court sided with Nelson in her challenge to the city’s ordinance banning discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity. Nelson, who identifies as a committed Christian and affirms a traditional biblical view of marriage between one man and one woman, initiated the lawsuit out of concern that the ordinance would require her to photograph same-sex weddings against her convictions. She argued that the policy violated protections under the First Amendment, specifically the Free Speech and Free Exercise clauses, along with the Kentucky Religious Freedom Restoration Act. A federal judge ultimately ruled in her favor last fall.”
SUPREME COURT SUPPORTS FREE SPEECH IN RULING AGAINST COLORADO LAW (Friday Church News Notes, April 10, 2026, www.wayoflife.org fbns@wayoflife.org, 866-295-4143) - The following is excerpted from “In Ruling Against Colorado,” Crosswalk, Apr. 1, 2026: “Yesterday, the Supreme Court ruled in Chiles v. Salazar, a case that challenged a law that prohibited licensed counselors from helping clients, specifically children, reconcile their identity with their sex through talk therapy. The 8-1 decision included all of the Court’s conservative Justices and two of its liberal Justices. Because Colorado’s law would restrict speech based on viewpoint, the Court held, it violates the First Amendment. The plaintiff in the case is Kaley Chiles, a Colorado-based counselor who provides talk therapy to her patients. As the Court explained, talk therapy is speech. It does not involve physical treatments or medical prescriptions. It consists only of “the spoken word.” In counseling patients, including children, Chiles often discusses issues of sexual orientation and gender identity. Under Colorado’s law, Chiles could express ‘acceptance’ and ‘support’ of a child’s ‘identity exploration.’ She could even ‘assist’ a child in transitioning his or her ‘gender.’ However, she was forbidden from saying anything to ‘change’ sexual orientation or helping a child feel comfortable with his or her God-given sex. That, the Court recognized, is flat-out viewpoint discrimination. Justice Gorsuch, who wrote the majority opinion for the Court, called Colorado’s law an ‘egregious’ and ‘blatant’ violation of the First Amendment.”
PLANT AND BACTERIA COMMUNICATE (Friday Church News Notes, April 10, 2026, www.wayoflife.org fbns@wayoflife.org, 866-295-4143) - The following is from CreationMoments.com, March 27, 2026: “Some people talk to their plants. But what do you say to a bacterium? Evidently, the soybean plant knows just what to say to make bacteria its close friend and helper. Symbiosis means a relationship between two different creatures in which they both help each other. Plants need nitrogen for healthy growth. However, while there is more than enough nitrogen in the air, plants normally can’t make use of that nitrogen. Legumes, like soybeans, link up with bacteria that are able to take nitrogen from the air and turn it into a form of nitrogen that plants, including the soybean, can use. In return, the plant creates a nice home for the bacteria in nodes in its roots and provides the bacteria with food. The bacteria need a great deal of oxygen and energy to fix nitrogen into the soil. The oxygen is supplied by heme. If that name reminds you of the hemoglobin that carries oxygen in blood, you’re on the right track. That’s why the heme in the nodules turns them reddish. Who makes the heme, the soybean, or the bacteria? When alone, neither creature has any heme. Researchers have learned that the plant performs the first part of the chemistry needed to make heme and the bacterium finishes the job. The plant and the bacterium actually communicate chemically with each other so that production goes smoothly! Communication between such different creatures, allowing them to perform sophisticated chemistry to improve both of their lives, shows how inadequate evolution is to explain life. This arrangement surely glorifies the Creator! REF: Pennisi, E. ‘Intimate chemistry of a symbiotic odd couple,’ Science News.”
CONCLUSION: The Friday Church News Notes is designed for use in churches and is published by Way of Life Literature’s Fundamental Baptist Information Service. Unless otherwise stated, the Notes are written by David Cloud. Of necessity we quote from a wide variety of sources, but this obviously does not imply an endorsement. We trust that our readers will not be discouraged. It is God’s will that we know the times (1 Ch. 12:32; Mt. 16:3) and that we be as wise as serpents and harmless as doves. The News Notes remind us that the hour is very late, and we need to be ready for the Lord’s coming. Are you sure that you are born again? Are you living for Christ? “And that, knowing the time, that now it is high time to awake out of sleep: for now is our salvation nearer than when we believed. The night is far spent, the day is at hand: let us therefore cast off the works of darkness, and let us put on the armour of light. Let us walk honestly, as in the day; not in rioting and drunkenness, not in chambering and wantonness, not in strife and envying. But put ye on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make not provision for the flesh, to fulfil the lusts thereof” (Ro. 13:11-14).
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