The following welcome is printed each week in the bulletin of Our Lady of Lourdes Catholic Community in Daytona Beach, Florida. It reflects the kind of welcoming community every congregation should be. It does not say that all the choices reflected in the welcome are good choices, and it says nothing about what is […]
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What’s the number one thing we can do to fill our churches? It’s probably not what you think. By John Stonestreet, at http://www.breakpoint.org, May 9, 2017 According to a new Gallup survey, the quality of the worship band isn’t the main reason people go to church. Neither is it thriving kids’ programs. Or
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The Roman Catholic Church had always been sending missionaries to the ends of the earth, ever since Jesus himself sent the first disciples out to all the nations. But the Protestant churches, newly formed in the 16th and 17th centuries after disagreements with the Catholic church, did not right away take up this missionary task.
1479) The Father of the Modern Missionary Movement Read More »
Above: Phil Robertson talks about duck calls and Jesus ——– By Phil Robertson in NKJV Duck Commander Faith and Family Bible. —————————- Years ago I was invited to give my duck call demonstration at a store in Iowa. A huge crowd of duck hunters gathered around me like bees on honey. They’d seen
By Phil Robertson in the NKJV Duck Commander Faith and Family Bible A few years back, the creek down the hill from my house froze over solid. I’d never seen a phenomenon like that in all my years. The temperature dropped low enough to make a snowman shiver. I figured anyone with a
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By Lutheran pastor Ruben A. Pederson I served as a pastor to the congregation at the Mkalama leper colony in Tanzania, where we had services in a small chapel. At a communion service one day I had an remarkable experience. One of the worshipers, seated on the bench near the back, slid from the
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From the Voice of the Martyrs January 2017 newsletter, (www.persecution.com) A pastor from an Islamic country in the Middle East recently shared the story of Shani, one of his church members. Shani’s husband was the leader of a house church, until one day when he simply disappeared. For three months, Shani had no
1370) Words from the Spirit Read More »
We hear much today about the hostility of unbelievers towards Christians: don’t say ‘Merry Christmas,’ take down those Nativity Scenes from public places, make sure the children don’t sing any Christmas carols at the ‘Winter Program,’ etc. Just yesterday I read about some customers at a restaurant who were offended by the Christmas music that
1347) What Are the Unchurched Thinking? Read More »
By Joseph Degi, Copperas Cove, Texas, in Guideposts magazine, December 1988. None of us sailors in the 119th Construction Battalion were in the mood for Christmas. No wonder! Two hundred of us had been stuck for months right in the steamy middle of the tropical jungle, installing fuel tanks that were supposed to
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Pictured above: Millie Larson (1925- 2014), in 2012 at her retirement home in Bagley, Minnesota, 20 miles east of Bemidji where she graduated from high school in 1943. ***************************** By Bernie May, in the Wycliffe Bible Translator’s bimonthly publication ‘In Other Words,’ March 1986, p. 8. Bernie May was Wycliffe’s United States Division Director. ——————————–
