Sight & Sound
Improve Your Health With Laughter
Negative emotions can affect your physical well-being. But keeping a smile on your face contributes to emotional and physical health. Two of the greatest healing forces in the world are available to you at this very moment. They are the healing power of laughter and the restorative strength of joy. A merry heart is your
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How to Bear the Fruit of the Spirit
Jesus taught His disciples that fruitfulness was His purpose for them. He told them, “‘You did not choose Me, but I chose you, and appointed you, that you should go and bear fruit, and that your fruit should remain’” (John 15:16, NASB). He also taught them that they could be fruitful only by learning to
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Laughter is Good Medicine
Negative emotions can affect your physical well-being. But keeping a smile on your face contributes to emotional and physical health.
Two of the greatest healing forces in the world are available to you at this very moment. They are the healing power of laughter and the restorative strength of joy. A merry heart is your greatest weapon against deadly emotions.
The Bible affirms the healing power of joy when it says, “A cheerful heart is good medicine, but a broken spirit saps a person’s strength” (Prov. 17:22, NLT). This scriptural truth suggests that laughter holds as much healing power as medicine. Is it any wonder that those who laugh easily often live longer than those who do not?
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The Church That Changed a City
Bishop Vaughn McLaughlin’s growing congregation in Jacksonville, Florida, is reshaping the spiritual, social and economic landscape of a community.
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A Reluctant Pastor
After her husband’s death, Nkechi Francis Anayo-Iloputaife became the head of one of the largest churches in Africa.
When her husband was murdered in 1995, Nigerian pastor Nkechi Francis Anayo-Iloputaife doubted she could survive the grief, much less handle the reigns of their growing Victory Christian Church in Lagos. But today the ministry is taking the city by storm with dozens of community services, including a 24-hour prayer chain, daily Bible studies and monthly Agape Sundays when the church offers food, clothing and medical services.
Just six years ago, Iloputaife was a pastor’s wife, content with ministering beside her husband, Bishop Harford Anayo Iloputaife. The couple started the ministry with 12 Bible students in their garage in 1984 and watched it grow to 10,000 members–making it one of many large churches in Nigeria, Africa’s most populous nation. By 1995, Victory had planted 10 satellite churches, carrying the ministry’s vision to see the lame walk, the dumb speak and the blind see as far away as London and Trinidad.
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Still Shining Bright
Bill Bright turns 80 this month, but the founder of Campus Crusade for Christ stays busy in his twilight years building bridges with charismatics and calling for a fresh outpouring of the Holy Spirit.
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Eddie Long: Why You Need to Spiritually Clean House
Have you ever noticed that empty houses rarely remain empty? Whether you realize it or not, there are unwanted dwellers that can’t wait for you to move out so they can move in. I’m not talking about vagrants or homesteaders. I’m talking about stealthier unwanted guests. You can clean a room and within days, dust,
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When God Speaks in a Whisper
Since his voice was ruined by surgery, worship leader Bob Sorge has been speaking with quiet authority about faith in the face of frustration. Why do bad things happen to obedient, faithful Christians? If God allows evil to afflict the believer, is it for punishment or promotion? Does God intend to deliver us out of
When Can You Sell the Anointing?
More and more ministries are ‘selling’ spiritual gifts to anyone willing to pay. What does the Bible say about these tactics? Flipping through a magazine recently, I came across a church conference advertisement that at first glance seemed run-of-the-mill. All of the essential information was there–dates, times, speakers, location. Then I noticed words to this
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Signs of a Heart That’s Far From God
The prodigal son didn’t end up among the pigs the day he left his father’s house; he went through a gradual process of decline (see Luke 15:11-15). So it is with us. If the enemy presented the end with the first temptation, it would be easy to resist! But usually the departure from grace is
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To Conquer, You Have To Confront
Probably the best advice my mother ever gave me came when I was finishing my senior year of high school. We were in one of those mother-and-daughter heated discussions because I had made some decisions that were breaking her heart. Like a broken record, she had repeated her speech over and over. It went something like this: “You lie in the bed that you make.”
Faced with my “Oh, no, here we go again” attitude, my mother was completely frustrated. She blurted out, “You can come in here and fool me, Paula. You can fool your family and your friends, but you’d better be honest with yourself!”
I knew she was right. She had hit a nerve, and eventually, it proved to be the advice that would change my life.
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