Five Reasons Some Churches Celebrate Debt Retirement

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Podcast Episode #560

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Debt can drag down a church’s finances and keep it from being able to minister as it would like to. So when a church retires its debt, it’s typically a cause for celebration.

Some highlights from today’s episode include:

  • Debt retirement celebrations should be more of a celebration of God’s provision than debt retirement.
  • When debt is eliminated in a church, funds available for ministry increase dramatically.
  • Having more money for ministry in a church means having more money to reach people for Christ.
  • Too many times in churches that need revitalization we talk about problems instead of promises.

The six failures we discuss are:

  1. It is a reminder of God’s provisions.
  2. It is an announcement of new funding for ministry.
  3. It is a celebration. Churches need to celebrate more often.
  4. It is a thank you to the members.
  5. It is great information for newer members who may not know.

Resources mentioned in today’s podcast

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Explaining the El Paso massacre: Hateful ideology and biblical truth

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Explaining the El Paso massacre: Hateful ideology and biblical truth

The event is one of the most iconic in history.

The 1936 Olympic Games are being held in Berlin, Germany. Adolf Hitler intends them to be a showcase of Aryan supremacy. But a black man from America named Jesse Owens defeats Germany’s athletes and Hitler’s racism, winning four gold medals. One of them is for the 200-meter dash, which he won eighty-three years ago yesterday. 

In related news, Sonia Sotomayor was confirmed as our nation’s first Hispanic Supreme Court justice ten years ago today. 

I wanted to start today’s Daily Article with these reminders that America is a multicultural, multiracial nation of immigrants and their descendants. We might think such a reminder would be unnecessary, given our nation’s clear history. But this is no longer the case. 

How the shooter justified murder 

Twenty minutes before shots rang out last Saturday in El Paso, Texas, a four-page manifesto was posted online. So as to deny them further publicity, I will neither name the alleged murderer nor link to that document. 

But I can tell you that authorities now believe the El Paso shooter posted the document. It begins: “In general, I support the Christchurch shooter and his manifesto. This attack is a response to the Hispanic invasion of Texas.” The writer adds, “I am simply defending my country from cultural and ethnic replacement brought on by an invasion.” 

He believes that economic and political forces are conspiring against Americans and claims, “If we can get rid of enough people, then our way of life can become more sustainable.” Frighteningly, his document ends: “Many people think that the fight for America is already lost. They couldn’t be more wrong. This is just the beginning of the fight for America and Europe. I am honored to head the fight to reclaim my country from destruction.” 

“The Great Replacement” 

No idea exists in a vacuum. The El Paso murderer states that reading “The Great…

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Captive Christians released in Myanmar

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Captive Christians released in Myanmar

Religious freedom charity, International Christian Concern have confirmed the release of villagers on 1st August who were held for six months in a border camp, after soldiers took them from their community following a battle with government forces.

The Arakan Army (AA), an insurgent group that recruits from the mainly Buddhist ethnic Rakhine population and is fighting for greater autonomy for the state, abducted the Khumi villagers on 2nd February, 54 people were taken to the AA’s base between the Myanmar and Bangladesh border.

 

 

While the AA claimed that it had “rescued” these villagers by helping them flee to safety, where the Burmese Army (Tatmadaw) has been carrying out an offensive against the AA, the villagers who escaped later denied this. The villagers said that they were taken against their will, and were used as human shields at one point when the Tatmadaw attacked with combat helicopters.

Fourteen of the villagers managed to escape the camp in the last few months, and one died while in AA custody.

Upon their release, the villagers were sent to community leaders in Ohnthee Wa village so they could be taken to an internally displaced persons (IDP) camp in Meezar.

Pastor Moses from the camp told Radio Free Asia that he was informed about the villagers’ arrival in Ohnthee Wa, but that he had not yet met them. “They said they have come back, but they are…

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