Strengthening Faith, Love, and Hope
Strengthening Faith, Love, and Hope
This Sunday is the International Day of Prayer for the Persecuted Church. Let’s all take time to remember and pray for our brothers and sisters throughout the world who are facing severe persecutions for their faith. Although it’s very difficult to get entirely accurate statistics on how many people are actually persecuted for their faith, the World Evangelical Alliance has published some shocking figures about…
I hope this doesn’t sound too irreligious, but sometimes I wish I could see Jesus dressed in something other than His baggy, white robe, and blue sash. Sometimes I’d like to see Him in a tank top. Six times in the book of Deuteronomy Moses refers to God’s “Mighty hand and stretched out arm.” In Psalm 89:10 it says of the Lord, “You have scattered…
“The merchant of death is dead.” Those were the words that greeted Alfred Nobel in 1888 as he read his own obituary in a French newspaper. His brother, Ludvig, was the one that had actually died, but the newspaper mistakenly ran an obituary on him wherein it criticized him for the fortune he had made on the development of dynamite and other explosives. Appalled by…
What are the top fears that are fighting against your confidence and faith in this season of your life? Are they fears of rejection? Failure? Success? Are they fears that you don’t measure up in an area of your life? Are they cringing fears about the future? There’s something you need to know about the fears that plague you. They’re a lot like vampires. They…
There’s something exciting about the new—new possessions, new experiences, new relationships, and even new churches—and it’s very easy to get swept up in to the euphoria of that newness. It’s wonderful to see someone enjoying a new relationship, a new season of life, or being drawn in to a new church experience where the music stirs them, the messages speak to their soul, and the…