Cutting material is not an admission of weakness; it can be an act of love toward the listeners and good stewardship before God.
To be blessed by people we had led to faith and who had joined our church conveyed the life-giving power of this act with astonishing clarity.
“Welcoming my son into the world is one of the greatest blessings God has ever given me”, underlined the football star playing for Belgium, quoting James 1:17 on social media: "Every good and perfect gift is from above”.
Cardinal Reinhard Marx, a highly influential figure in the Catholic Church in Germany, will begin the process in June to grant the Church’s blessing to “divorced and remarried persons, and couples of all gender identities and sexual orientations”.
As we remember at Easter, the cross of Christ isn’t the end of the story. After tragedy comes redemption, and after the apparent end comes a new beginning.
A blessing center in the middle of the city is an excellent tool for evangelism. Dear sisters and brothers, don't be shy: let's establish such projects. People are waiting for them.
A key moment in the life of an entrepreneur is the transition of leadership, which often falls to a family member.
A street preacher, he set out to carry around the world the huge cross that he had hung on the wall of the premises of his mission to the “hippies” of the Sunset Strip in Los Angeles.
The Eurodiaconia event in Santander brought together experts and non-profit organisations from a range of countries, which shared about their best practices.
All the books in the world would not be enough to write about the blessings we have received from God.
Once you start to journal your blessings it becomes not only easier to spot them, but easier to get into the practice of thanking God for them.
When the problems are perceived as structural rather than individual, it is difficult to assign responsibility.
The new official document “broadens its classical understanding” to “include” new kinds of couples while maintaining “the perennial teaching on marriage”.
In a world of people trying to find themselves, make themselves, and often, fake themselves, we have a God who is not holding back on speaking his blessing over us.
A letter signed by 27 leaders states that the process to bless same-sex couples would be “unlawful, unconstitutional, and illegitimate”.
The pastor of the Evangelical Church of Castelldefels (Spain) looks back at the first 7 years of work in the city and addresses the current challenges.
St Helen's Bishopsgate church says “there is no long-term security for Church of England evangelical churches”. St Ebbe's clergy states that they “are in impaired communion with the bishops in our diocese”.
We live in an age marked by resistance to authority. The idea of submission has fallen on hard times. But don’t miss either the logic or the blessing of this concept.
The Jericho Foundation started in Edward Road Baptist church as a ‘jobs club’ for the vulnerable and excluded. In the last 15 years, it has directly supported over 8,000 people.
Volunteers of the social branch of the EKD take care of around 160 homeless every night, bringing them the hope of the gospel, food and clothing.
We are not free to maximise our own pleasure and happiness at the expense of others; such thinking comes not from Genesis 1 but Genesis 3 – it arose from the Fall. Much of the resistance to the reform of capitalism comes from a faulty anthropology.
At the epicenter of the Covid-19 crisis in Italy, an evangelical church opened its building to the community, transforming it into a shelter for the homeless.
Homeless people “are much more deprived and vulnerable than before because of the epidemic”, a worker of Christian organisation Ágape +, says.
Local authorities of Fuerteventura (Spain) asked the evangelical church Modern Christian Mission to run a shelther por people in need.
The Modern Slavery law would give victims at least 12 months of guaranteed support. Charity CARE asks Christians to contact their local MP to support the initiative.
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