Our understanding of the kingdom of God takes a dramatic turn when we realize our first calling is to love and enjoy Jesus. What would God preach to the human race if He knew He had only one more sermon? We can find the answer simply by turning in our Bibles to Matthew 21 and …
Local officials are waging a smear campaign, using accusations that church leaders engage in brainwashing
Mario Licciardello provided security for evangelist Benny Hinn
Charisma columnist Jamie Buckingham died in 1992, but his writings still reach millions today.
He is not without his critics, but Bruce Olsson
is too busy evangelizing the Motilone Indians
of Colombia to worry about what other missionaries think.
The story told in Through Gates of Splendor didn’t end in 1956
David Yonggi Cho, pastor of the world’s largest church, has set his sights on planting new churches in Korea and Japan.
PLUS: David du Plessis, Jimmy Swaggart
As Joel Osteen steps into the role as pastor of Lakewood Church in Houston, he carries on a dynamic legacy his father left behind.
PLUS: Loren Cunningham, Terry Fullman, Demos Shakarian
Charles and Frances Hunter have ministered together from the moment they were married on New Year’s Day 1970. Thirty years later, their love is stronger than ever.
PLUS: Catherine Marshall
An ambitious project will plant 1,000 churches in Spain and Portugal by 2010
Once a worship leader for Ohio pastor Rod Parsley, Brown has merged his Faith World congregation with Hinn’s church
Stephen Strang was a young newspaper reporter in Florida when he started a tiny church magazine 25 years ago. Today his company has become a leader in Christian publishing.
When a woman is planning to be married, she generally spends months preparing for the wedding ceremony. She shops for a wedding dress, chooses outfits for her attendants, orders flowers, addresses and mails out invitations, secures a location for the reception, engages a photographer and musicians, schedules a church and a clergyman, and does scores of other related, time-consuming tasks, all to ensure that the service itself will be a memorable occasion and a fit beginning for her new life–a life she has yearned for and dreamed about for a long time.
What some of us don’t realize is that whether we have ever planned, or will ever plan, a wedding in the natural, we are preparing for a marriage in eternity with the Lamb of God.
God’s plan for us is that we become the bride of Christ. According to Anna Rountree, author of The Heavens Opened (Creation House), this plan is much like an arranged marriage. At the point of our new birth, our future spiritual marriage is set up in heaven somewhat as arranged marriages are here on Earth. It is essential that we keep this vision before us throughout our lives so that every decision we make will serve the end of preparing us for our destined role.
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