Topic: The Praise Of Faith: An Antidote For Doubt [Seeds of Destiny Monday March 26, 2018] Scripture: Then believed they his words; they sang his praise. Psalm 106:12. Thought For The Day: You cannot believe God and not praise Him;…
Topic: More Than Just Sowing And Reaping [Andrew Wommack Monday March 26, 2018] Luke 6:38, “Give, and it shall be given unto you; good measure, pressed down, and shaken together, and running over, shall men give into your bosom. For…
Topic: Turn Darkness to Light [Billy Graham’s Daily Monday March 26, 2018] . . . light is come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light . . . —John 3:19 The world’s difficulty is summed up in…
(Photo: AP Images/Sang Tan)People pray inside St James’s Church at Piccadilly in central London, Thursday, July 23, 2009. The Church of England is offering couples a two-for-one service, marriage for them and baptisms for their children. The church says it is recognizing the changing reality of British families and statistics show that 44 percent of children in Britain are born to unmarried women.
Christianity is a faith with a long and detailed history, with numerous events of lasting significance occurring throughout the ages.
Each week brings the anniversaries of great milestones, horrid tragedies, amazing triumphs, telling tribulations, inspirational progress, and everything in between.
Here are just a few things that happened this week, March 25–31, in Church history. They include the death of a prominent African-American church leader, the first worship service of Saddleback Church, and Billy Graham’s first sermon.
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Saddleback Church holds first worship service — March 30, 1980
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(Photo: Saddleback Church/Screengrab)Pastor Rick Warren delivers an Easter sermon at Saddleback Church.
This week marks the anniversary of when Saddleback Church, the influential megachurch headed by pastor and…
About four out of five Protestant pastors have said that their congregations are primarily made up of one racial or ethnic group, according to a newly released report by LifeWay Research.
Eighty-one percent of surveyed pastors said they either “strongly agree” or “somewhat agree” with the statement “My church is predominantly one racial or ethnic group.”
Released Tuesday, the findings were drawn from a survey of 1,000 pastors from Protestant churches conducted over the phone from Aug. 30 to Sept. 18, 2017.
While still a large percentage, 81 percent is a decline from 2013, when 86 percent of surveyed pastors reported having a church that was “predominantly one racial or ethnic group.”
“Protestant churches are still mostly divided by race,” said Scott McConnell, executive director of LifeWay Research. “But they’re heading in the right direction.”
Topic: Signs of The End Times II [Open Heavens 26 March 2018, Sunday] Memorise: “But ye, brethren, are not in darkness, that that day should overtake you as a thief.” – 1 Thessalonians 5:4 (Scroll down for Open Heavens Hymn)…
(Photo: Suzanne Gill)Palm Sunday stain glass window at St. Andrew’s Episcopal Church, Fort Worth, Texas.
Palm Sunday is the Sunday before Easter when the Holy Week begins. Here are five facts about the occasion that shed light on its importance in the lives of Christians.
Palm Sunday is the beginning of the final seven days of Jesus’ earthly ministry, based on Matthew 21:6–11, which reads:
“The disciples went and did as Jesus had directed them. They brought the donkey and the colt and put on them their cloaks, and he sat on them. Most of the crowd spread their cloaks on the road, and others cut branches from the trees and spread them on the road. And the crowds that went before him and that followed him were shouting, ‘Hosanna to the Son of David! Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord! Hosanna in the highest!’ And when he entered Jerusalem, the whole city was stirred up, saying, ‘Who is this?’ And the crowds said, ‘This is the prophet Jesus, from Nazareth of Galilee.'”
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1. Palm Sunday celebrates Jesus’ triumphal entry into Jerusalem
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(Photo: Reuters)People walk near Damascus Gate leading into Jerusalem’s Old City, 2017.
Jesus’ entry into Jerusalem is mentioned in all four Gospel accounts in the Bible,…
According to the Enigma Software Group (ESG), the number of malware infections detected by its software has fallen by 17-per-cent since 14th February when compared to weeks leading up to the Lenten season.
ESG spokesperson Ryan Gerding told ABC-affiliate WGNO: “It’s very common for people who participate in Lenten activities to curtail usage of things like social media and technology in general in the weeks leading up to Easter.
“They may also reduce the amount of time spent on adult websites, which are common sources of malware infections.
“We think the combination of those activities together help to explain why computer malware infections drop during Lent.”
The decline in the number of computer viruses being detected this Lent follows a 14-per-cent reduction seen by ESG last year.
The firm also found US cities with high Catholic populations saw greater drops than the national average, with 36-per-cent and 31-per-cent falls reported in Boston and New York respectively.
Remembering how Jesus was tempted in the desert by the devil for 40 days, many Christians fast or abstain from certain activities between Ash Wednesday and Maundy Thursday.
Many Christians agree God intended sexual intimacy to be expressed between a married man and women, and not through the use of pornography.
(PHOTO COURTESY OF JOHN DAVIS/ABERDEEN NEWS)The deconsecrated Trinity Episcopal Church in Groton, South Dakota.
Rural America is full of old churches.
Many are little more than a small wooden structure erected by a long-forgotten congregation dating to when towns and villages formed around lumber camps, railroads and mining developments in the 19th century.
Sometimes the congregations stayed as the town or village incorporated and grew. The old wooden churches would often be demolished and replaced with something bigger and more permanent as the congregation prospered, either because the pews were full or there was generous support from a wealthy patron.
Elsewhere, entire towns and villages were abandoned as westward expansion continued across the continent. In other cases, rural population decline forced the merger of congregations. Sometimes a disused church was transformed into a museum, schoolhouse or a family’s dwelling.
The now-former Trinity Church — it was deconsecrated in 1975 — was built three years after railroad expansion resulted in the platting of Groton, South Dakota, in 1881.
The simple, but elegant structure is built in the Carpenter Gothic style to the designs of acclaimed church…
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