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Martin Luther wrote the lyrics centuries ago, but the eighth-note rock rhythms that pulsated through St. Marcus Lutheran Church on Christmas Eve clearly proclaimed that this was new terrain for "From Heaven Above to Earth I Come." Read more.
(St. Louis, MO)—American students of the current generation are serious about following God, said Urbana 06 director Jim Tebbe as InterVarsity’s 21st Student Missions Convention came to a close on New Year’s Eve. “It seems that there’s a different tenor to it than even 2003, the last Urbana,” Tebbe said. “There’s a serious of purpose here that has surprised me.” Read more.
(St. Louis, MO)—Since Christianity is expanding rapidly in the non-western world, where seventy five percent of Protestant Christians now live, some people may conclude that missionaries are no longer needed. But not according to Oscar Muriu, the pastor of Nairobi Chapel in Nairobi, Kenya, who spoke at Thursday night’s plenary at the Urbana 06 Student Missions Convention, at the Edward Jones Dome in St. Louis. Read more.
(St Louis, MO) – A record crowd of more than 22,000 Urbana 06 attendees stood to their feet with a Bible in one hand and a cell phone in the other as Urbana director Jim Tebbe opened the 21st triennial convention by asking them to pray a special request to God. “Ask God, ‘What does your Word, the Bible, have to say about my world?’ represented by your cell phone.” Read more.
Along a narrow road just outside of Bethlehem, shepherds trooped to their fields, as the eastern sky began to glow with the approaching dawn. Their minds were still reeling from the busy, confusing night. First they had been stunned by a fearsome angel with an announcement, followed by a spectacular sound and light show featuring an angel choir. They were directed to a stable in Bethlehem, where they found a young mother and father hovering over a manger, which cradled their new-born baby. When they told the new parents about the angels, they didn’t seemed surprised at all. In fact…
Dannie Carter has a soft, dry voice. "It’s all just praising God," he says. "It don’t matter what kind of building you have. The building is not God. God is inside of you. This is just a structure where we gather to worship God." For Carter, the structure is the Rodeway Inn on East Broadway where Christ the Solid Rock Baptist Church has met for three years.Come Sunday mornings, you can go to the motel’s Terrace Room for breakfast or take a right down the corridor to the Illinois Room for spiritual nourishment.Christ the Solid Rock is one of a…
DALLAS (Reuters) – If it wasn’t for churches and religious charities, a lot of folks would go hungry in the United States this winter. But while most churches believe in helping the poor, they take different views on how to go about it. Read more.
Conflicts inside and outside the workplace aren’t new, but there is an effort in Madison to use forgiveness to build harmony in the business environment.Madison’s International Forgiveness Institute, a private, nonprofit organization founded in 1994, was established as an outgrowth of the social science research done at UW-Madison by Robert Enright and his colleagues.Read more.
MIAMI — When Eve took that forbidden first bite of organic apple, she had no idea she would be linking food and religion forever. Thousands of years later evangelicals and worshippers of low-carb diets are worrying about how many carbs are in their communion crackers.In the first go round, dozens of books like the Hallelujah Diet and The Maker’s Diet harkened the fare of Biblical times to take off the pounds that church potlucks and Sunday picnics packed on.But the latest crop of faith-based diet books are moving outside the realm of food and exercise, touting a more holistic approach…
ORLANDO, FLA. – It’s rush hour in southeast Orlando – Sunday rush hour, that is. About a dozen churches are within a few miles of one another, and more are under construction. Neighbors venturing out for bagels and other errands find themselves stuck in traffic, heads bowed not in faith but frustration. Some complain that the traffic persists all week, as religious, youth, sports, and other activities draw crowds after work and school. Read more.