Christian Teen-Agers Demand Return Of School Prayer at Washington Rally
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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.
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The story told in Through Gates of Splendor didn’t end in 1956
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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
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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
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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
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An ambitious project will plant 1,000 churches in Spain and Portugal by 2010
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Once a worship leader for Ohio pastor Rod Parsley, Brown has merged his Faith World congregation with Hinn’s church
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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.
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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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Just before the holiday season our family traveled out of state to attend an interdenominational charismatic conference. My 3-year-old grandson, Christian, accompanied us, and when he saw me the first morning dressed in a new winter outfit, he was wide-eyed with delight and especially impressed with my red shoes.
Looking down at them and then at me, Christian exclaimed the words that blessed this grandmother’s heart, “Oh Grammy, you look soooo pretty! You look just like a clown!”
High praise indeed from a 3-year-old!
–Cynthia Duerfeldt
Was That a Compliment. Read More »
A WOMAN OF GOD
The memory of a car with a flat tire in a seemingly deserted Southern area and a black woman singing and playing a tambourine in front of it is a scene Amy Stevens, presiding bishop of the Mount Sinai Holy Church of America, will never forget. It was 1946, and the singing woman, Ida Robinson, soon had an audience of people.
As was her custom when she had an audience, Sister Robinson began to preach. She was convinced that the flat tire was allowed by God so these people could hear the gospel.
Few people today remember this fiery revivalist. But every time they go past a congregation affiliated with the Mount Sinai Holy Church of America, they see the legacy of Bishop Ida Bell Robinson, the founder of the Pentecostal organization.
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SHE WASN’T PROUD OF HER PAST, BUT A CHANCE ENCOUNTER WITH A STRANGER AT A PUBLIC WELL CHANGED HER PERSPECTIVE ON EVERYTHING.
Many of us are familiar with the story of the woman at the well, the Samaritan outcast whom Jesus encountered outside the city of Sychar (see John 4:1-42). Throughout our lives, we may have heard her mentioned in various anecdotes on God’s grace.
A closer look at this story, however, reveals a detailed account of God’s plan to restore broken lives and symbolically, the bride. There are four stages to this process described in John 4: (1) the invitation to accept living water; (2) embracing the past; (3) establishing a relationship through worship; and (4) being released for ministry.
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