Would it be missed? I don’t mean, would it be missed by you. Would it be missed by the community. Since we mentioned it though, would you, your family, friends miss it? why? I have heard from a few friends lately that in their churches it seems as though everyone is just playing church. Everyone shows up at 10am and leaves at at or before 1. The process repeats [...]
Monday, June 1, 2009
This is a very interesting story. Taking a semester off to travel and focus on writing isn’t that unusual for a student at Brown University. But instead of studying comparative literature in Europe, Kevin Roose decided to go to Lynchburg, Va., and enroll at Jerry Falwell’s Liberty University. Roose passed himself off as an evangelical Christian to blend in with students at the school founded by the late Moral Majority [...]
Friday, April 10, 2009
In contradiction to a Newsweek proclamation regarding “The End of Christian America,” a new poll reveals that nearly two in three Americans plan to be in church this Sunday, on Easter. According to a new Knights of Columbus-Marist poll, of all Americans, 63 percent plan to observe the day by attending church services, and among Catholics, the percentage rose to 74 percent.Full Story
Tuesday, March 31, 2009
In 1857, a city missionary in New York, bending lowly before God in prayer for the perishing souls about him, pleadingly cried: Lord, what wilt thou have me to do? He daily reiterated the cry. His earnestness became intense. His faith took hold of the promises, and he rose to the expectation that hundreds and thousands would be converted to God. He had no idea how this would [...]
Tuesday, March 31, 2009
The congregation at New Creation Church raised a whopping $19 million for the construction of its new premises at Buona Vista - in less than 24 hours. In a show of support, a record number of 22,000 people turned up for services at the Rock Auditorium at Suntec City Mall three weeks ago. Full Story
Friday, November 14, 2008
DAMASCUS, SYRIA (AP) - Archaeologists in central Syria have unearthed the remnants of a 1,200-year-old church believed to be the largest ever discovered in this Mideast country, an antiquities official said Thursday…Full Story
Thursday, November 6, 2008
(CNSNews.com) - Although Barack Obama won a majority of the national popular vote and the Electoral College in yesterday’s presidential election, he did not win a majority of the voters who say they regularly attend church, according to the network exit poll. Full Story
Saturday, October 18, 2008
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Monday, September 29, 2008
As crazy as it sounds, churches across England are working in a united effort to invite people to church. There has been a drastic decline in church goers in the last few years and this is to bring those people back. Full Story When was the last time you invited someone to your church? Have you ever invited someone to church? When was the last time you had a [...]
Monday, September 22, 2008
In an article out this morning, Julia Dunn explains why millions of Americans are ‘Quitting church’. Full Article
Saturday, September 13, 2008
The pope is in France this week and is working closely with French President Nicolas Sarkozy to have a general more ‘openness’ to the idea of the influence of ‘the’ church with the state. Scary stuff right out of the pages of Revelation 17? Full Story
Tuesday, August 19, 2008
On his recent visit to Beijing, President Bush went to a church. Government officials have said that this has only angered more people and that religious freedom in China is worsening. Full Story We must pray that God will open the doors to any places left on this planet that have not heard the good news of Christ and His soon return.
Friday, July 25, 2008
Churches around the country are really finding it more and more difficult to draw men to church on any given weekend. Women are outnumbering men in attendance in every single major Christian denomination in the U.S. I can say that in India this is also true. Women attend religious events and men are hard to find. Full Story
Friday, July 18, 2008
When was the last time you invited someone to church? Here is another question that may play into that. Are you proud of your church? Is your church a place that you want people to come and hear about your unique beliefs and the exciting Christian atmosphere? If not, you may be the one who needs to change that feeling. Don’t wait on others to do something. If [...]
Tuesday, July 8, 2008
It is with great pleasure to show you a picture of a church that was recently finished in central part of India in the Andrah Pradesh state. I had the pleasure to go to India and preach to hundreds of souls longing for truth that only God can provide. It was a blessing and here is a picture of the church that was recently dedicated. Praise the Lord [...]
Monday, July 7, 2008
For many congregations it is. In a story out today on USA Today, churches are reporting that combining activities that used to be on different nights of the week into the same night will increase attendance. Many members of one particular church in Louisville say that “with gas at $4 a gallon, I was not as quick to drive 25 miles to get to church”. It is said that [...]
Monday, June 23, 2008
The more religiously active an American is, the more likely he is to vote Republican–unless he’s black. That fact emerged in the second part of a Pew Forum study on the landscape of religious life in the United States, released this June. Full Story Newsweek
Saturday, June 14, 2008
I found this article very interesting concerning the decline of many protestant denominations in North America. Christine Wicker: The great evangelical decline Sunday, June 1, 2008 Christine Wicker is the author of “The Fall of the Evangelical Nation: The Surprising Crisis Inside the Church.” Her e-mail address is christine@christinewicker.com. What Baptist leaders have known for years is finally public: The Southern Baptist Convention is a denomination in decline. Half of the SBC’s 43,000 churches will have [...]
Tuesday, June 10, 2008
A recent poll by the Barna Group shows that only 5% of Americans say they tithe or give at least 10% of their income away to charitable organizations. According to a sister study, churchgoers give on average only 2.58% of their income to the church. USA Today Full Story
Thursday, May 22, 2008
Presbyterians in Tennessee are the latest group of mainline Protestants to plaster ads about their denomination in a push to reverse declining membership. The presbytery is spreading word about the PC(USA) through television advertising spots and roadside billboards that read “Find Peace. Here and Now. We are the Presbyterian Church (USA)” along with eight other sayings. Ads are designed to inform the public that their churches are open and [...]
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This is really intense so be prepared. It is interesting to note that Buddhism teaches in the last days that Maitreya would come. The foundation is being prepared for some serious deceptions.
Congresswoman Bachmann “We Would Do Well To Humble Ourselves Before God!”–This is an amazing testimony
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