Christmas often comes with pressure to feel cheerful—even when life is heavy. In this episode, Jay Strother and Brian Ball slow down in Matthew 2 to see what the story actually contains: costly obedience from Mary and Joseph, the brutal reality of Herod’s violence, and the sobering reminder that Jesus’
The following comes from United Families International. To visit their website, CLICK HERE. Christianity is currently the most persecuted religion in the world. Attacks target Christian homes, businesses, churches, schools, hospitals, and cemeteries every day. Religious services are interrupted, leaders are arrested, and in many cases, even believers are killed.
1. In the end Every word is a response to the Word. 2. The cult of false strength, i.e., those who profess to be beyond the need for consolation Those who criticize belief in God for being a consolation know this better than anyone. To them, acknowledging God would be
One of the episodes that strikes me most from the life of Rose Busingye is what happened to her when she tried to respond to the need of some Ugandan women who were sick with AIDS. She was a nurse in Kampala and had made attempts to help these women,
Trump’s Executive Order Harms Persecuted Christians, Argues World Relief Less than a week after Donald Trump’s inauguration, World Relief is calling on the president to reverse course on immigration policy, particularly with regard to an executive order suspending the United States Refugee Admission Program (USRAP). World Relief argues that Trump’s
Presiding Bishop Sean Rowe takes office, proclaims ‘one church in Christ’ for a changing world The Most Rev. Sean Rowe began his nine-year term as the 28th presiding bishop of The Episcopal Church with an intimate but festive investiture service on Nov. 2 in New York that was livestreamed to
8 Reasons The Church is a Light in a Troubled World Cultivating hope, expressing encouragement, and maintaining an authentically positive spirit are vital to your leadership. People need to sense your optimism as a leader. But that’s not always easy, is it? 10 Church Poisons That Will Kill Any Church
Methodist Heritage: World Methodist Council 1961 Address by Bishop Gerald Kennedy Tenth World Methodist Conference Oslo, Norway August 19, 1961 In the nineteenth century, the English theologian Frederick Dennison Maurice wrote: “I cannot but think that the reformation in our day, which I expect to be more deep and searching than