Christian colleges experience higher satisfaction rates than other universities

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Christian colleges experience higher satisfaction rates than other universities

A new National Student Survey found that 96 per cent of students at Christian colleges are content with their learning. However, the overall percentage of students who are satisfied with their course and institution has fallen for the second year in a row, with half of them with students unsatisfied.

In All nations Christians College in Hertfordshire, 100 per cent of the students were content with their studies. The college’s principal Andy Dipper told Premier what’s behind Christians colleges scoring so well.

 

“Christians are wanting to get serious about understanding God’s word, to understand biblical truths, to understand the context of the theological understanding and certainly to understand the culture in which we operate.

“So no one is going to drift into a Bible college by mistake…”

In total, 83 per cent said they were content with their higher education experience, down from 84 per cent last year. Some 8 per cent saw no change in satisfaction rates.

Dipper said there are simple ways universities can improve satisfaction levels.

“One level is about really taking seriously everything that people say and on another level it’s about saying, ‘well what can we do better? What can we really aspire to? What can we really plan ahead for, for the future’ never standing still.”

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Museums unite to protest Facebook’s nudity ban including Jesus painting

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Museums unite to protest Facebook’s nudity ban including Jesus painting

Museums in Belgium are uniting in protest against Facebook because they cannot promote Flemish Masters including Rubens as they fall foul of the social media site’s adult content rules and automatic censorship.

“The bare breasts and buttocks painted by our artist are considered by you to be inappropriate. We have noticed that Facebook consistently rejects works of art by our beloved Peter Paul Rubens,” more than a dozen top Belgian art officials wrote to Facebook chief executive Mark Zuckerberg.

 

The Visit Flanders tourist board has even produced a mock news video where security officials prevent visitors from seeing nudity in the Rubens House museum.

In one scene an official spreads his arms in front of the Adam And Eve painting, in which the biblical figures are covered only by the proverbial fig leaf, instead diverting them to other paintings where everyone is properly dressed.

AP Photo/Olivier Matthys

 

“Twenty per cent of the (Facebook) posts that we dedicated to the Flemish Masters couldn’t be shown to our audience, our cultural audience worldwide,” said Visit Flanders spokeswoman Tama d’Haen.

“It’s really embarrassing for Visit Flanders that we cannot show one of our main assets to the world. That’s why we came up with the idea of a video,” she added.

Facebook said it understands the issues.

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Pakistan election results sparks fear amongst Christians

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Pakistan election results sparks fear amongst Christians

Officials announced on Friday that the former cricket star Imran Khan’s Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) party had won 114 of the 269 seats being contested in the National Assembly.

Hours after the 65-year-old’s victory was confirmed, he spoke to the nation saying his preferred form of government is “the Islamic State as established by the Prophet Mohammad in Medina”.

 

“Today in front of you, in front of the people of Pakistan, I pledge I will run Pakistan in such a way as it has never before been run,” he said.

Christian charity Open Doors’ World Watch List places Pakistan as the fifth worst place in the world for Christian persecution.

Before the election, a Pakistani Christian leader told Open Doors: “Many Christians fear Imran Khan as the country’s leader as he has said he wants to return to jirga, a traditional assembly of leaders that make decisions by consensus and according to the teachings of Pashtunwali – a series of non-written ethical codes which predate modern laws and which prove a dangerous mix in combination with Sharia, the strict Islamic law.”

AP Photo/Anjum Naveed

Pakistani politician Imran Khan, chief of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf party, speaks to media after casting his vote at a polling station for the parliamentary elections in Islamabad, Pakistan,

 

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RCCG Sunday School TEACHER’s Manual 29 July 2018 Lesson 48 – Rapture: Purpose and Qualifications

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RCCG Sunday School TEACHER’s Manual 29 July 2018 Lesson 48 – Rapture: Purpose and Qualifications

TOPIC — Rapture: Purpose and Qualifications [RCCG Sunday School Manual 29th July, 2018]

Opening Prayer: Students should pray for grace to inherit the heavenly mansion at last. (Scroll down for RCCG Sunday School Manual 29th July, 2018 Hymn)

Bible Passage: 1 Corinthians 15:50-53 (RCCG Sunday School TEACHER’s Manual July 29, 2018)

50 Now this I say, brethren, that flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God; neither doth corruption inherit incorruption.

51 Behold, I shew you a mystery; We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed,

52 In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump: for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed.

53 For this corruptible must put on incorruption, and this mortal must put on immortality.

MEMORY VERSE: “2 In my Father’s house are many mansions: if it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you. 3 And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again, and receive you unto myself; that where I am, there ye may be also.” – John 14:2-3.

INTRODUCTION:
Our last lesson revealed the meaning of the word, rapture. We also discovered events surrounding the rapture as regards timing and other issues. Today’s lesson will show us the reasons, the qualification as well as fallacies surrounding the rapture. May the good Lord teach our hearts and bless our lives with His truth by His Spirit, in Jesus’ name

TEXT REVIEW: 1 CORINTHIANS 15:50-53
Verse 51 of today’s text explains the mystery behind rapture. The momentary event will be heralded with the sound of the trumpet of God and both the dead and the living will be changed, starting with the dead. Therefore, rapture has to do with changing of our mortal body to immortal, corruptible body to incorruptible or victorious body and sudden “catch up” of the saints into the air.

LESSON OUTLINES
1. Why will the rapture take place?
2. Who will be raptured?

WHY WILL THE RAPTURE TAKE PLACE?
i. To resurrect the just of all ages from among the dead. 1Thess. 4:13-17; Ps. 50:1- 6.

ii. To take the saints out of the world before the tribulation. Lk. 21:34-36; 2Thess2:7-8; 1Thess.1:10.

iii. That Jesus Christ might present to Himself a church without spots or wrinkles. Eph. 5:27; John 14:1-3.

iv. To transform or change the bodies of all faithful saints from mortality to immortality. Phil. 3:20-21; 1Cor.15:21-23, 42-44, 51-58.

v. To assemble the saints at the marriage supper of the Lamb. Rev. 19:1-10.

vi. To allow the revelation of the anti-Christ 2Thess2:1-8.

vii. To present saints to God the Father. 1Thess.3:13; Jude 24.

viii. To make the saints whole in body, soul and spirit 1Jn3:2-3; Rom.8:22-23

CLASS ACTIVITY 1
Why do you think God decided to catch the saints up into the air suddenly without giving a prior date?

WHO WILL BE RAPTURED?

i. Those that are in Christ at His coming. John 1:12; 2Cor. 5:17

ii. Those who earnestly desire His appearance. Titus 2:13; Phil. 3:20

iii. Those who love the Lord absolutely. Phil.3:7-10; John 21:15-17; John 14:15; Mark 16:15-18; Luke 19:12-13

iv. Those whose citizenship are in Heaven. Phil 3:20-21; Eph. 2:19.

v. Those that will live holy even as He is holy. 1Pet. 1:16; Heb. 12:14; 1John 3:3

CLASS ACTIVITY 2
Mention those people that will not be raptured.

SUMMARY
Be watchful so as not to miss the rapture because only those who are absolutely ready will be raptured.

CONCLUSION
Teachers and students should do everything possible to be rapturable.
These among others include: watchfulness, fellowshipping with brethren and the Holy Spirit and keeping the unity of faith. 1Thess. 5:6; Eph. 10:25; Eph. 4:3

CLOSING PRAYER
Father, make my household and Church rapturable.

ASSIGNMENT
Identify any five types of people or attitudes that would not be raptured and why?

Read previous RCCG Sunday School Teacher’s Manual Here

RCCG SUNDAY SCHOOL HYMN

1. O Sunday School, on the Lord’s day,
O how I love Thee well,
I am happy, it makes me glad
To rejoice at Thy birth.

2. O Sunday School, on the Lord’s day, Thy friendship suits me well,
Both young and old will sing Thy song,
We long for Sunday School.

3. O Sunday School, on the Lord’s day,
Christ was Thy first teacher,
The Holy Spirit, great teacher,
Does manifest in thee.

4. O Sunday School, on the Lord’s day,
This testimony is sure,
That God, the Father Almighty,
Poured His blessing on Thee.

5. O Sunday School, on the Lord’s day,
Though the sun be so bright,
Or if the clouds black with rain,
I’ll be in Sunday School.

6. O Sunday School, on the Lord’s day,
I rejoice to see Thee,
Will thou pass over me today?
Without my being blest?

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Stopping disgraced bishop’s return to ministry would have been ‘ghastly’, retired judge claims

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Stopping disgraced bishop’s return to ministry would have been ‘ghastly’, retired judge claims

Lord Anthony Lloyd of Berwick said he remains friends with disgraced bishop Peter Ball, who was jailed in 2015 for sexually abusing 18 young men over 30 years.

The inquiry heard the former member of the House of Lords had written to various people including the chief constable of Gloucestershire Police and the Archbishop of Canterbury about Ball before his conviction.

 

Asked at the hearing in London on Friday why he had done so, he said he thought it “right” that people should know “what sort of man Peter Ball was”.

He said: “It was, as I think it is described somewhere, a perfectly straightforward letter intended really to show what sort of man he was.”

He earlier told the inquiry of his thoughts when he met Ball.

He said: “He had very remarkable gifts, great spiritual gifts. When he preached, people wanted to hear what he had to say and I liked him very much. We then became very good friends, and we still are.”

Ball resigned as bishop of Gloucester following his 1993 caution.

For Ball to have never returned to ministry following that would have been “a ghastly result”, Lord Lloyd said.

He told the inquiry: “You could not, as it were, if he resigned as the bishop of Gloucester, leave him with nothing to do, bearing in mind he was still a minister with the church. And to leave him with nothing to do, no decent employer would do that.”

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Probe over Quaker charity donations to terror-linked group

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Probe over Quaker charity donations to terror-linked group

According to the Times, the regulator is investigating the claim that the trust gave the funds to Teach Na Failte, which supports prisoners and ex-offenders but was also founded by the Irish Republican Socialist Party – the political wing of the Irish National Liberation Army (INLA).

The Charity Commission on Friday ordered the York-based trust to “explain and justify” why it gave funding to a group whose offices were raided this year by anti-terrorism police investigating sex-trafficking, violent intimidation and “paramilitary-style attacks”.

 

The INLA was formed in 1974 during the Northern Ireland conflict and has been linked with bombings and shootings in Northern Ireland and London, including the killing of shadow Northern Ireland secretary Airey Neave in Westminster in 1979.

The Times reported that the Rowntree charity has been giving money to the unregistered charity Teach na Failte since 2014.

A spokesperson for the Rowntree trust told the newspaper it “rejected all violence” and supports “equality, rights and reconciliation”. The spokesperson also defended providing funds to Teach na Failte because it was “committed to non-violence”.

They went on to describe Teach na Failte as a “support group for prisoners and ex-prisoners” who were associated with the INLA, which declared the end of its armed campaign back in 2009.

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Notable Voices and the Week in Review: July 28, 2018

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Should Churches Go Into Debt? — Art Rainer

Should churches go into debt? This question often elicits passionate responses from people at various points on the yes/no spectrum. The passion is often driven by a desire for their church to make the best decision to advance the gospel in their community and around the world. And this is a good thing.

3 Reasons Greeter Ministries Are Still Relevant in 2018 — Facts & Trends

You might be wondering if a greeter ministry is still relevant in 2018. Do we even need greeters any more? It’s a fair question. Shouldn’t we expect everyone in the church to be friendly to guests? Why do we have to ask people to do what they should be doing anyway? Perhaps in an ideal world with an ideal organization with ideal people such an approach would work. But that’s not our world, and that’s not our church. We, therefore, greatly need greeter ministries for three reasons.

11 Reasons Some Pastors Leave a Church Too Soon — Chuck Lawless

Last week, I posted two posts about pastors staying too long in a church (here and here). Today, I want to address the other side of the coin—pastors who leave a church too soon. In this case, I refer to anecdotal evidence gathered through the years by talking with pastors who themselves say they left a church too soon. Few pastors I know leave a church saying, “I know this is too early, but I’m leaving”; instead, they reach that conclusion after the fact.

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Joyce Meyer’s Daily 28 July 2018 Devotional — Think About Something Good

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Joyce Meyer’s Daily 28 July 2018 Devotional — Think About Something Good

Topic: Think About Something Good [Joyce Meyer’s Devotional Saturday July 28, 2018]

pray without ceasing, — 1 Thessalonians 5:17

One day I remember praying, “God, I can’t go on fighting my thoughts all day, every day. As soon as I capture these wrong thoughts, they come back. What am I supposed to do?” As you fight the battle in your mind, you may find yourself praying the same prayer, so I want to share with you the simple answer God gave me. He said all I needed to do was to think about something else!

When you think about something good, there is no room for wrong thoughts to get into your mind. Concentrating on trying to not think wrong thoughts can actually increase them, but simply filling your mind with good things leaves no room for bad things to get in.

The Bible says that if we walk in the Spirit we will not fulfill the lusts of the flesh (see Gal. 5:16), and this simply means that if we concentrate on the things God desires, then we will not have room in our lives for what Satan desires.

This was a life-changing revelation for me. I realized I couldn’t wait for something good to just fall into my mind. I had to choose my thoughts on purpose. The Bible says in Deuteronomy 30:19 that God sets before us life and death, blessings and curses. If you and I do not choose thoughts that lead to life, the enemy will make the choice for us—and he will choose thoughts that lead to death. But when we choose thoughts that lead to life, our lives will be blessed.

Take time to roll good thoughts over and over in your mind and this will help you form the habit of thinking good things. You must believe you can do something or you won’t even try. So, I repeat: “You can choose your own thoughts!” You can “overcome (master) evil with good” (see Romans 12:21 AMPC).

Prayer Starter: Father, please help me to guard my thoughts today. Help me to think on things that will honor You and breathe life into my moods, attitudes and actions. In Jesus’ Name, Amen.

If you missed yesterday devotional, please click to read “Joyce Meyer Daily Devotional HERE’’

From Joyce Meyer’s Ministries.

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MFM Mountain Top Life Daily Devotional 28 July 2018 – A Great House (II)

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TOPIC: A Great House (II) (Mountain of Fire and Miracle Ministries Saturday, 28 July 2018)

FIRE SCRIPTURE: 1 Corinthians 6:15-17

MEMORY VERSE: “For ye are bought with a price: therefore glorify God in your body, and in your spirit, which are God’s.” –1 Corinthians 6:20

The MESSAGE:

The Bible says you are the temple of the Holy Spirit, a dwelling place of the Almighty God (1 Corinthians 6:19). Man is made up of body, soul and spirit. The soul of man, which consists of mind/heart, is a battlefield. Two forces are always contending with the mind. These are forces of God and of satan. The forces of darkness attack your mind with evil thoughts, imaginations and wickedness in order to pollute. If they are successful, hatred, bitterness and all unrighteousness will begin to manifest. If you have observed any of these in your life, you need to purge yourself of them. Beloved, purity or filthiness determines who dwells in your great house. If idolatry, adultery, fornication, prostitution, unrighteousness, alcoholism, gluttony are found in your great house, it becomes an abode of all evil spirits. Some have released their bodies to be a dwelling place for witchcraft spirit. Their presence in a place brings evil or causes havoc.

Who occupies your great house is a matter of choice. The choice you make determines the state of your heart. Have you made the right choice? Is your life a vessel of honour or dishonour? Whoever dwells in your great house is a function of who you have chosen (Joshua 24:14-24). Some of us allow anger, pride, lust, deception, stubbornness, cruelty and greed in our great house. God will not dwell in such house because it is not prepared for Him. Every child of God is expected to prepare His house for Him to dwell in by purging himself of every filthiness and clothing himself with holy living, righteousness, prayerfulness and the word of God. If you make the right choice, you will enjoy the presence of God always.

God is the good builder of your great house (Genesis 2:31). As the good builder, is God happy and pleased with the condition of your great house (body/life)? If the condition of your house is making God to bleed in His heart, then you need to repent and forsake your wicked ways. The content of your house may be the cause of hindrances to your miracles, breakthroughs and testimonies. If that is the case, you need to purge yourself with prayers and the word of God. The life of a Christian that is purged is sanctified, made a living sacrifice, holy and acceptable to God (Romans 12:1). The petition of a sanctified Christian commands the attention of heaven (Isaiah 30:19).

MOTIVATIONAL QUOTE:
EVERY DAY BRINGS NEW CHOICES.

PROPHETIC WORD:
Darkness shall not rejoice over your life.

PRAYER POINTS:

MORNING
1. O Lord, reveal to me every hindrance to my spiritual growth, in the name of Jesus.
2. You wicked power in my foundation that refuses to let me go, fall down and die, in the name of Jesus.
3. Every lawful bondage in my life, break, in the name of Jesus.

EVENING
4. I command every bondage in my life to loose its hold, in the name of Jesus.
5. O Lord, let me experience Your kingdom in every department of my life, in the name of Jesus.
6. Holy Ghost fire, destroy every work of the flesh in my life, in the name of Jesus.
7. You my body, hear the word of the Lord and reject satanic command, in the name of Jesus.

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MOUNTAIN TOP LIFE is a daily devotional by Dr. D.K Olukoya (General Overseer, Mountain of Fire and Miracle Ministries, Worldwide)

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Seeds of Destiny 28 July 2018 Daily Devotional – Living As A Generational Problem Solver

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Seeds of Destiny 28 July 2018 Daily Devotional – Living As A Generational Problem Solver

Topic: Living As A Generational Problem Solver [Seeds of Destiny 28 July 2018 Daily Devotional]

Scripture: Ye are the light of the world. A city that is set on an hill cannot be hid. Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father which is in heaven. Matthew 5:14,16

Thought For The Day: The responsibility you handle today positions you for the possibilities, opportunities and authority you will experience tomorrow.

A major way to make the most of life is to live as a generational problem Solver.

Living as a generational problem solver involves deploying oneself to solving generational problems and challenges confronting society at large. A person’s life today is a seed for the harvest of tomorrow. The actions of today position a person for the manifestations of tomorrow.

David was a very good example of a generational problem solver. While his elder brothers were idling about, David tended the father’s flock in the wilderness. If David had refused to take charge of his father’s business, he would not have amounted to anything in life just like the rest of his siblings. If David was not interested in tending his father’s flock, probably, none of his brothers would have done it. He was the last born of the family who should have been pampered and protected by all but his brothers pushed him to the bush to face lions and bears. Despite that, he made up his mind to take the family’s responsibility as a child. That responsibility he took exposed him to the experience of killing the lion and the bear, and that was a stepping stone to killing Goliath.

There are many people who are handling the responsibilities that their elder ones are meant to handle. They handle things bigger than their age. My counsel is, do not complain because the responsibility you handle today positions you for the possibilities, opportunities and authority you will experience tomorrow.

So, what you do today for a family or a community qualifies you for what God would use you to do for a nation or nations tomorrow. Please deploy yourself to serving God and humanity as a generational problem solver.

Remember this: The responsibility you handle today positions you for the possibilities, opportunities and authority you will experience tomorrow.

Assignments:
1. Make up your mind to do what others neglect and avoid.
2. Deploy yourself as a generational problem solver.

Prayer: O Lord, I ask for the grace to do what others neglect and avoid. Help me to deploy myself as a generational problem solver, Lord, in Jesus’ Name.

Daily Bible Reading: 2 Chronicles 21:1 to 23:21, Romans 11:13 to 36, Psalm 22:1 to 18, Proverbs 20:7

Amazing Fact: Cheetahs are the only big cat that can turn in mid-air while sprinting.

Today In History: 28/07/1865 – The American Dental Association proposed its first code of ethics

Quote: God manufactures His servants, history makers, world shakers, those that impact and change nations, in hideouts and in closets! Culled from GO IN THIS THY MIGHT by Dr. Paul Enenche

Also Read: Seeds of Destiny by Pastor Paul Enenche

Today’s devotional was written by Pastor Paul Enenche of the Dunamis International Gospel Centre (DIGC), headquartered at Abuja, Nigeria, with Pastor Paul and Becky Enenche, as the Senior Pastors. It is a power-packed arena where God’s Presence, Principles and Power are at work for the salvation, healing and restoration of human destinies and dignities

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Lord Jesus, come into my life. I accept You as my Lord and Personal Saviour. I believe in my heart You died and rose from the dead to save me. Thank You Lord for saving me, in Jesus name Amen.

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