However safe and self-sufficient we felt, a virus has reminded us of the fragility of life and has brought us face to face with death.
It does not matter who you are now. The most important thing in life is knowing where we are going to spend all eternity.
The time of crisis is inevitably also a time of opportunity for reconciliation, mediation and a new start.
A Pew Research Center survey shows that “people in emerging economies tend to be more religious and to say that belief in God is necessary to be moral”.
God does not need extraordinary people, only people willing to put themselves in His hands.
A mental model for the missiology of risk.
Nothing can give our body greater rest than when it is in contact with our Creator.
When it comes to the decisions needed in a world gripped by a pandemic, is there anywhere in the scriptures which casts a more nuanced light?
God is very clear, either you are or you are not. There are not “almost” believers.
Malawi will have a government led by the former president of Assemblies of God. “We are excited to have a respected man of God as the head of state”, says Christian leader Matilda Matabwa.
God said that our mind should be full of everything pleasant (Phillipians 4:8).
Lazarus Chakwera won after 13 months of street protests related to the 2019 elections. “I accept this call to serve you for I am duty bound to God”, he said.
People need to have more exposure to God’s self-revelation in the Bible, not less.
There is only one possibility of restoration: coming before God.
Christian counsellor, Emoke Tapolyai, warns about “the culture that feeds young people with the lie of `you can have it all´”, and analyses how to help them cope with the anxiety that it brings.
Nobody does any more important work than those who pray for others.
The president of the French Evangelical Alliance, Christian Blanc, spent one month in the hospital infected with the coronavirus. “We must incarnate the gospel by being closer to the poor and the sick”.
God created us with an incredible set of emotions to help drive us through the challenges of life, but He never intended us to travel that path alone.
We must not permit anything to live inside us that is contrary to the will of God.
Is the present pandemic simply God’s judgment to punish evil? Or does it, on the other hand, have nothing to do with God, because He can only show love?
Whatever the realm is you’re walking in for the first time: you’re marking out a path for the next person.
God hasn’t abandoned His broken project. He hasn’t left us in our brokenness. He has actually joined us in our suffering.
God has placed people with more wisdom at our side to help us in difficult moments.
‘I’d like to experience things with God too!’... whines my little lad and, on a whim, he grabs the Bible and reads at random these words of Jesus: ‘...Everyone who seeks, finds. And to everyone who knocks, the door will be opened....’
As Christians in today’s culture, we need to have an awareness of the competing gods of digital Babylon. If we actively serve the gods of Europe, we may in the end find ourselves not worshiping the God of the Universe.
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