BRI AUNNA NANCE/CBN 08-07-2026 Mike Posner, well known for his secular pop songs, announced his baptism this week, revealing he has been pursuing a walk with Christ for about a year. Posner has testified to his transformation. In a recent Instagram post, Posner recognized three "Christ-based synchronistic events," including a friend prophesying over him, a personal encounter with Christ during a church service, and a friend sharing words of knowledge about his life that matched what God was telling him, encouraging him to "take a step towards Christ." Posner took Christ's invitation seriously and boldly stepped towards Him. Now, after a year's time, Posner is sharing what Christ has done in his life since. "I interpreted these signs as signals for me to take a step towards Christ. I did so. A year ago, I got down on my knees and gave my life to Christ," Posner shared. Although committed, the transformed pop star admitted to not fully understanding his newfound belief in Christ. However, Posner's lack of understanding did not stop his pursuit for Christ – it only fueled him to go deeper. "After getting up from my knees, I really didn't know {what} I now believed in," Posner wrote. "As I tend to do, I went all in and started reading my little tale off." A few weeks after his commitment to and pursuit of Christ, Posner learned what it meant to be Christian. "FOR ME; To be a Christian means to aspire with all your mind, body, and soul to live as Christ did. To forgive all other people. To treat ALL other people, especially the least among us (whether that be the poorest of the poor financially or the loneliest of the lonely) with an impossible level of compassion, grace, and most of all LOVE," his post reads. This new revelation of Christ's love transcended personal ability and personal feelings for Posner, requiring him to lean on and obey God regardless. "It means to live with an impossibly high standard of goodness towards others, so much so that I NEED God's help to even get close," he wrote. "It means listening to the little voice inside me (that I believe comes from God) that tells me to do right thing, even when I don't feel like it." Posner made it clear, walking with Christ is not religion, it is a continued relationship and a way of life. "It's not just a doctrine or theology, it's a way of life rooted in faith," he wrote. "I'm working on developing more and more of a personal relationship with God," the post continued. Putting his own words in action, Posner is proclaiming Christ's saving power to others through his socials and his music. Songs like "I Took a Pill in Ibiza," once glorified Posner's worldly past. However, he reclaimed the song with a newly released remix, "I Went Back to Ibiza" to reflect his new life in and with Christ. u This Pastor was giving a summary of the Sunday School lesson and he said something sort of bizarre as far as I was concerned. I sort of got the jest of it, but it was a strange way of saying it. He talked about a movie he saw, and with these movies now, it is hard to find anything spiritual in them. So he told of this prostitute, and this rich man picked her up and carried her into this wealthy store and told her to buy what she wanted, and the store clerks tried to shun her, and she asked about a $700.00 dress, and one said, “Well, you can’t afford that,” and the rich man said, “No, but I can!” He bought it for her and in the rang tangle he married her and he said, “Now that takes love!” So, I was terribly confused and so were many. First, that was carnal love. Many folks fall in lust. Not in love. I will tell you what is love; when jesus died on that old rugged cross that we could be redeemed and freed from the power of sin, and even a prostitute could find the Lord near and dear to their heart, and their life could be changed and put on a path of righteous. Now that is love! That is divine agape love. Love that not only covers a multitude of sin and faults you find in others, but a love that can cause a rank hard sinner to turn from their wicked ways. A love that can make it possible that, as hard as it is, a Christian can truly love the sinners. The souls of sinners, but that same love of God can cause you to hate sin.To hate the sin and will cause you to not agree with sin, compromise with sin and not even tolerate sin, which is a modern day way of agreeing with sin. Anyway you slice it. So buying a prostitute a set of high price clothes has nothing to do with real love. The love of God that caused Him to love folks so and hate sin so that He gave His only son. Now that is love. The point being, you can change the outward, but until you change the inward, then nothing changes. We are to have compassion for the drug addicts and the prostitutes as long as we don’t lose tract of what is important, and that is the soul of mankind. That miracle of salvation. You want to show love and compassion for folks, then tell them about Jesus. Here is the perfect scenario. First when the woman that was brought to Jesus that was accused of adultery, or maybe she was guilty, but her accusers were just as guilty as she was; and so they really wanted to trick Jesus and He said, “He that be without sin then cast the first stone.” Then He knelt and wrote on the ground. What we don’t know, but I can just imagine, He wrote the names and sins of those accusers. When they left, He raised up and asked where they were, and then He said, “Neither do I condemn thee! Go and sin no more!” John 8:11. In other words, don’t go back out and do the same old things you did before. We are saved, but not to continue on in our sin. You can’t be saved and be a sinner all at the same time. Now second, if this rich man on that movie, or say not even a rich man, but a man that loved Jesus, and instead of something cheap like a $700.00 dress, he told her about priceless salvation and she was brought under conviction and wept and accepted Christ, and then supposedly they got married. Wouldn’t that be a real solid happy ending to an amazing story of the true love of God. Now that is real love! Can you say amen? OCTOBER 2026 GLAD TIDINGS 11 GARY TOOLE EXPRESS LOCATION: 1001 N Madison Ave Douglas Ga. 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