Source: American Daily
Why is everything so ordinary after Jesus’ resurrection? That is, of course, except for the resurrection itself. That is the most significant happening in all planetary history.
However, it must be admitted that the daily occurrences for the next forty days until Jesus ascended spell a rather usual routine.
If humans were writing [...]
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Source: Charleston Post Courier, SC
Christian principles place emphasis on debt-free living, giving tithe to church
What would Jesus invest in?
It’s a question that might come up in church halls and accountants’ offices among followers of a new and ancient school of financial planning: that based on Scripture.
Biblical money management links personal spending decisions to Christian [...]
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Source: Christianity Today Magazine
We’re waiting for Elijah, not Jesus, say Jews
On Easter, the Chicago Tribune’s Christine Tatum reported on Passover Seders celebrated by Christians. More than 250 Chicago-area churches held them this year, she said.
“It doesn’t just help [Christians] understand the Lord’s Supper a little better, but their Jewish neighbors too,” explained Michael Rydelnik, a [...]
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Source: San Jose Mercury News, CA
DETROIT -With the demise of Saddam Hussein’s government, Christian churches across Michigan are gearing up to send help to Iraq.
Most of the religious groups emphasize their goal is to help the Iraqis, not convert them. But missionaries are often part of the aid package.
“A hungry man needs bread first,” said [...]
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Source: Naples Daily News, FL
Christians are putting aside their judgments and fears to wage a serious national campaign to rid the world of a major health crisis – the spread of HIV/AIDS.
They are marshaling the resources of American churches to help ease the suffering and work on eliminating poverty and ignorance…[Full Story…]
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Source: Baptist Press
LOUISVILLE, Ky. (BP)—The Christian spiritual journey must extend beyond mere doctrinal orthodoxy to passionate faith, said psychologist and author Larry Crabb.
The evangelical church has done a good job of developing biblical convictions, but it has failed to demonstrate how those convictions relate to the deepest longings of the human soul…[Full Story]
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Source: Fort Worth Star Telegram, TX
Derek Webb’s “surprise” decision to leave popular Christian band Caedmon’s Call, his musical home for 10 years, may have caught fans off-guard. The real surprise, however, is the record he’s made in leaving.
First, the parting with Caedmon’s Call: It was amicable, Webb says, and planned for more than a year…[Full [...]
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Source: News 14 Carolina, NC
A Concord church that allowed the baptism of two gay men may be expelled from a local association of Baptist churches.
Rev. Steve Ayers of McGill Baptist Church says neither he nor his congregation believed it was appropriate to stop the ceremony. He says his church’s business is to love and [...]
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Source: Christianity Today
With Saddam Hussein’s government newly deposed, you might expect Iraq’s approximately 300,000 Christians to be celebrating. But while nearly all expressed their relief over Easter that most of the fighting seems to be over, many fear an Islamic takeover of the government once the Americans and British withdraw. Hussein’s government, while cruel [...]
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Source: Baptist Press
LOUISVILLE, Ky. (BP)—The Christian spiritual journey must extend beyond mere doctrinal orthodoxy to passionate faith, said psychologist and author Larry Crabb.
The evangelical church has done a good job of developing biblical convictions, but it has failed to demonstrate…[Full Story…]
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Source: Focus on the Family
Time magazine is preparing to spotlight Christian missionaries in Muslim countries. Will it endanger lives?
It appears Time magazine is readying a cover story on what might be called “undercover’ Christian missionaries in Muslim countries. While acknowledging the danger the story might pose, Time apparently wants to publish photos of the [...]
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Source: Honolulu Advertiser, HI
One of the largest Christian youth evangelism efforts in Hawai’i history made its way to Mililani Middle School yesterday, where students passed out “student survival kits” to peers on campus.
Dozens of students distributed more than 1,000 plastic yellow bags…[Full Story…]
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Source: NewsMax.com
Should evangelical Christians – whose Bible-based views often counter the so-called mainstream social, political and religious attitudes – be restrained from voicing their beliefs in secular settings?
Two recent situations suggest that there is a growing effort to silence Christians who express…[Full Story…]
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Source: MTV.com
Stacie Orrico, the latest pop princess to win over “TRL” viewers, is sick of being asked about her crossover from the Christian to the mainstream music market.
“It [shouldn’t be] so much about ‘the mainstream,’ ‘the Christian,’ whatever. I feel like music is music,” Orrico said recently….[Full Story…]
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Source: Crosswalk.com
For nearly 2000 years the significance of a small, stone box remained hidden from human history.
But 12 months ago – within days of Easter – the world awakened to a concrete truth carved in limestone: Jesus did rise from the dead, and now it was possible to “touch” his resurrection as well as [...]
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Source: Anchorage Daily News, AK
‘Where’s your God now,’ gunman asks
A 19-year-old Anchorage man who tried to tell two strangers about Jesus was punched in the face and shot in the arm overnight Monday on the Chester Creek bike trail in Fairview, Anchorage police said.
James Cunning said he went for a walk around midnight on the [...]
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Source: San Jose Mercury News, CA
COSTA MESA, Calif. -The City Council denied the world’s largest Christian television ministry from shooting its religious services outdoors.
Responding to complaints from people who live near Trinity Broadcasting Network, the council unanimously voted Tuesday to reverse an earlier decision by the city’s Planning Commission to grant a conditional [...]
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Source: WMC-TV, TN
Washington-AP—Conservative Christian groups are defending Pennsylvania Senator Rick Santorum’s comparison of homosexual behavior to polygamy, incest and adultery.
Family Research Council President Ken Connor notes that Santorum was talking about a Supreme Court case challenging Texas’s sodomy law….
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Source: Channel4000.com
SCOTTSDALE, Ariz.—The Alliance Defense Fund placed ads in five college newspapers to advise Christian students of their rights.
ADF Chief Counsel Benjamin Bull said newspapers at the University of Alabama, the University of Kentucky, Ohio State, the University of Nebraska and the University of Minnesota are running the ads…
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Source: Crosswalk.com
London (CNSNews.com) – A Christian man who claimed he was fired for refusing to work on Sundays has lost his case in front of a British employment tribunal.
Stephen Copsey, 32, worked for mining company WBB Minerals in his hometown of King’s Lynn in eastern England…
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