New Wave of ‘Gospel Theater’
Woman Thou Art Loosed! sold out theaters nationwide
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Kenyan Pastor Opens Arms to Nairobi’s 20,000 Street Children
Most of Peter Musau’s care for the city’s homeless kids–many of them stricken with AIDS–has come out of his own pocket
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Karen Christians in Burma Wait for Help as They Face Persecution
After suffering 50 years, this ethnic group is trapped today between the country’s renegade military and global heroin trade
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Christians Honor 200th Anniversary Of Cane Ridge Revival in Kentucky
The August conference recalled a ‘great awakening’ that was a forerunner of modern Pentecostalism
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Churches Offer ‘True Sanctuary’ For Immigrants Fleeing to Belgium
Charismatic congregations are reaching refugees in Brussels
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‘Kettle Tour’ Prayer Vigil Offered Repentance for Racism and Injustice
Using a large kettle under which slaves once hid to pray, intercessors gathered in East Coast cities to repent for slavery
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NFL Star Quarterback Kurt Warner Says He is a ‘No-Label’ Christian
The St. Louis Rams pro doesn’t like the ‘charismatic’ label, but he attends a large Pentecostal church with his wife and kids
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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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