Rick Warren, author of the best selling book The Purpose Driven Life and leader of the Saddleback mega church in California has launched a global PEACE plan which aims to enlist one billion foot soldiers for the Kingdom of God. In a talk given to 30,000 people in Anaheim, USA he announce ...

Do you worry Are you concerned about your future to the point where it steals your joy Jesus said in Matthew 6:25, Take no thought for your life. That seems simple enough, but for some reason we dont get it. We think we have to run our own lives and make things happen. If somet ...

One of the impressions I have gained recently in speaking to Zen friends about practice is a certain attitude towards breathing in zazen. For the sake of brevity, and just for fun, I wish to refer to it as "samurai breathing". I think it has its origins in the martial arts. The "samura ...

Lets begin with the obvious: Jesus is coming back! Acts 1:11 says so. None of us believes this world we know is all there is. BUT STOP! If our focus is on the future, and not the finished work of Jesus cross, we are living in unbelief! not in faith! Jesus says ALL prophecies were fulfil ...

All philosophical, theological and political discourse issues from a presuppositional matrix. The communicator's ideas are characterized, influenced, and motivated by such a preexisting corpus of antecedent ideas, or embraced truth. I begin with the presupposition that Jesus understood p ...

(It will continue to be useful to have a copy of the Bible handy for this article.) If the Holy Spirit is to teach and train us we need to learn to be still before God. When we hear, we need to be able to accept what he tells us. It may not always be as difficult for us as for Peter ...

We all come to God with different, but considerable amounts which need to be done within us. Everyone has to learn to submit one's inner being to the Spirit so that he can train us and turn us into people who are useful for doing his work, whatever that might be. Peter, the first of J ...

No matter what religion you belong to, many people in today's modern society find that their children often don't enjoy attending Church, and some even downright dread it. Unless your everyday life is steeped in religion, children often look at attending Church as a chore that must be d ...

Peace be unto you. That is how Muslims great each other. Muslim clerics are making the news these days for teaching anything but peace. From violent outrage towards newspapers that commissioned caricatures of the holy prophet Muhammad, to the last calls to tear a man to pieces should he ...

There is a story told about Ivan the Great who ruled Russia as Czar in the 15th century. He was a warrior, a fighter, and a conqueror of kingdoms. The Soviet Union as we knew it a few years ago was basically put into place by Ivan the Great. Ivan was so busy doing battle that some of hi ...

The longer you remain a Christian single, the more often you'll end up as a bridesmaid in your friends' weddings. You're probably familiar with this scenario: it's midnight on Friday night. You're just putting down your book and getting ready to turn off the lights and crawl into bed whe ...

How can Western and Oriental civilizations understand each other after such conflicts Are there any ways for reconciliation Or is this the final breakdown During the past 20th century all western European countries have gone trough a specific process of democratization and have made man ...

Our hearts melted into one anothers in instant recognition during that first hug. Two bodies reunited after 36 years...two spirits that had never been separated. The gap of time was instantly filled during that one moment of reunion. The bond of mother and daughter can never be broken. O ...

I have a book of cartoons called Church Is Stranger Than Fiction with a picture of four men sitting around a conference table in a church board meeting. In the caption, the man at the head of the table says, It looks like were going to have to recall our last twenty-five convertsthere se ...

The Temple of Love The World Peace Religion is sending a delegation to Kabul Afghanistan on Sunday March 26, 2006, to free Abdul Rahman, who converted from Islam to Christianity 16 years ago. Rahman has been arrested and is facing trial for apostasy, which carries the death penalty. The ...

The greatest tool the enemy uses against us in life is fear, because fear keeps us from doing many of those things we would like to do in order to make our lives, and the lives of others, more complete and prosperous. Since we are born with only a few fears like the fear of fall ...

A boy went flying down the staircase from his room and after finding his mother busy in the kitchen he blurted out a question with great earnest and urgency. Mother he saidis it true what the preacher says at funerals about us when he says we are going from ashes to ashes and dust to dus ...

The greatest tool the enemy uses against us in life is fear, because fear keeps us from doing many of those things we would like to do in order to make our lives, and the lives of others, more complete and prosperous. Since we are born with only a few fears like the fear of falling and ...

Then He inaugurated Joshua the son of Nun, and said, "Be strong and of good courage; for you shall bring the children of Isreal into the land of which I swore to them, and I will be with you." -Deuteronomy 31:23 Joshua became Isreal's leader during one of the most difficult times in i ...

Revival and church growth in southern Philippines after ministry of Danish evangelist! The Danish Evangelist Peter Haahr Hansen and Gospel Miracle Ministries have recently been preaching in Churches and conducting crusades in Bohol (Southern Philippines). Bohol is an island in the Phil ...