How to Pray
(Anonymous) PRAY where you are. God is present everywhere and ready to listen.PRAY when possible in a quiet spot where you can be alone. It is well to fix your mind deliberately on God, apart from confusing distraction.PRAY to God simply and naturally, as to a friend. Tell Him what is on your mind. Get
You Might Be a Pastor If…
You believe you are supposed to take a covered dish to heaven. You have never sung the third verse of any hymn. You think that someone who says ‘amen’ while the pastor is preaching is charismatic. You complain because your pastor only works one day a week and then ‘he works too long.’ You clapped
Church Attendance Boosts GPAs
By Robert Roy BrittLiveScience (Aug. 19) – If you want to boost your teenager’s grade point average, take the kid to church. Or, a new study suggests, find some similar social activity to involve them in. Researchers found that church attendance has as much effect on a teen’s GPA as whether the parents earned a
Tony Snow’s Testimony
Blessings arrive in unexpected packages—in my case, cancer. Those of us with potentially fatal diseases—and there are millions in America today—find ourselves in the odd position of coping with our mortality while trying to fathom God’s will. Although it would be the height of presumption to declare with confidence What It All Means, Scripture provides
Libraries Ban MySpace and Facebook
(by Terrence O’Brien, USA Today, July 28, 2008) Poor libraries — they just want to fill our kids’ heads with porn and violence. Is that so wrong? First, libraries were forced to start filtering out obscene content in 2000. Then came the Patriot Act, which granted the government the right to examine the books you
Church Growth?
(adapted from an article by J. Gerald Harris, The Christian Index, Volume 187, Number 6) George Mitrovich, a member of First United Methodist Church in San Diego and active in Wesleyan renewal efforts, has stated that membership in the United Methodist Church in America has declined by nearly three million members in the past 30
Church Growth?
(adapted from an article by J. Gerald Harris, The Christian Index, Volume 187, Number 6) George Mitrovich, a member of First United Methodist Church in San Diego and active in Wesleyan renewal efforts, has stated that membership in the United Methodist Church in America has declined by nearly three million members in the past 30
Volume 08, Issue 13
Insights and Sidelights Warren Wiersbe “When all my attempts at exposition and exegesis are alike baffled, I worship.” (G. Campbell Morgan) As God’s servants, we like to know all the answers and be able to explaina ll the tough verses, but often we find ourselves unable to do so. We don’t like to say, “I’m
Views of the Unchurched
(Lifeway Research, as seen in USA Today, January 9, 2008) People who haven’t attended a religious service in six months say: There exists only one God, the God described in the Bible.38% Strongly Agree10% Somewhat Agree15% Somewhat Disagree33% Strongly Disagree The God of the Bible is no different from the gods or spiritual beings depicted by world religions such as
Unchurched Nation
(As seen in WORLD Magazine, March 2008) “More than a quarter of American adults have left the faith of their childhood in favor of another religion–or no religion at all. If change in affiliation from one type of Protestantism to another is included, roughly 44 percent of American adults have either switched religions affiliation, moved
Why???
Why do banks charge a fee on “insufficient funds” when they know there is not enough money? Why does someone believe you when you say there are four billion stars, but check when you say the paint is wet? Why do they use sterilized needles for death by lethal injection? Why doesn’t Tarzan have a
The Judas Gospel
Remember when the media and academia were buzzing a couple of years ago over the apparent discovery of “The Gospel of Judas”? The text seemingly painted the disciple as more of a hero than a traitor and sparked renewed interest in this man on many fronts. However, new research by April D. DeConick from Rice