Why Your Church Should Support Fewer Missionaries
When your church supports missionaries and international ministries by writing a small check once a month, neither you nor the missionaries receive a truly substantive, life-giving benefit from the relationship. On the other hand, a generous investment of time, energy, and finances will help your missionaries feel connected and increase your church’s grasp of—and meaningful investment in—the Great Commission.
The Greatest Tragedy in the Church Today
Pastors and other leaders must fall on their faces before God and ask Him to reignite their congregations with an evangelistic passion. When evangelism dies as a priority in the church, the church has already begun to die.
Overall, the results of the study revealed that the biggest factor in helping was having the time. The relevant statistic from the study was (% who stopped):
The Low Hurry Condition: 63% offered aid
The High Hurry Condition: 10% offered aidAnd, incidentally, some seminarians in the high hurry condition literally stepped over the groaning person on the way to deliver their sermon on the Good Samaritan.
The Scandal of Biblical Illiteracy: It’s Our Problem
We will not believe more than we know, and we will not live higher than our beliefs. The many fronts of Christian compromise in this generation can be directly traced to biblical illiteracy in the pews and the absence of biblical preaching and teaching in our homes and churches.
Do Modern Translations Disrespect God By Not Capitalizing Those Personal Pronouns?
First, the King James Version, as many modern versions, does not capitalize the personal pronoun. So that immediately shoots down the theory that this is those devilish modern translations dissing on the Almighty.
Secondly, the original Old Testament had no capital letters. There is no such thing as a capital letter in Hebrew. Likewise, when the New Testament was written in Greek it was written in all caps much like a screaming person on Facebook. So no caps and all caps.
The reason, then, why most translations do not capitalize is because they either want to keep with typical English usage rules or because they want to adhere to the original text as closely as possible. For those which choose to capitalize they do so because in their cultural context it is viewed as a sign of respect.
Empire state of mind – why do so many people think colonialism was a good thing?
So, basically, nearly half the population thinks the Amritsar massacre, the concentration camps during the Boer war and after the Mau Mau uprising, the post-partition violence in India caused by uprooting 10 million people, and the four million deaths from famine in Bengal while Churchill diverted grain to British troops and other countries were – what? Dunno. Not things they knew about? The price of doing business? We did bring a lot of economic development to places, you know.
I’m sure the bones of starving children thank you.
Evangelicals Join March for Life as Abortions Plummet in Pro-Choice States
The number of national abortions fell 12 percent from 2010 to 2013/2014, the AP reported. (The data was taken from each state; the newest numbers were either from 2013 or 2014.)
In every state except Louisiana and Michigan, abortion rates plummeted. (California, Maryland, New Jersey, New Hampshire, and Wyoming don’t collect abortion data and weren’t included in the survey.)
Care For A Dip? Crocodile Found Livin’ It Up In Florida Swimming Pool
A crocodile apparently decided a morning dip in a Florida Keys swimming pool was just the thing.
Monroe County Sheriff’s Office spokeswoman Becky Herrin says an Islamorada homeowner called about 7:30 a.m. Thursday to report the croc in his pool.