How a Small Rural Congregation Became a Megachurch Overnight
Read the original article here. This is the story of how one small, country parish, nestled between wheat fields in the vast stretches of the Texas panhandle, astounded the experts […]
Tag Archives: Christianity
More teens becoming ‘fake’ Christians
If you’re the parent of a Christian teenager, Kenda Creasy Dean has this warning: Your child is following a “mutant” form of Christianity, and you may be responsible! Dean says more […]
“How fruitful are you?” Mat 13:1-9, 18-23
“That same day Jesus went out of the house and sat beside the sea. And great crowds gathered about him, so that he got into a boat and sat down. […]
“Come, I’ll give you rest!” Mat 11:16-19, 25-30
“But to what shall I compare this generation? It is like children sitting in the marketplaces and calling to their playmates, “We played the flute for you, and you did […]
The hardest place on earth to be a Christian
Read the original article here. While there are many terrible places on earth to be a Christian (Sudan, North Korea, Afghanistan, Bhutan, etc.), Pakistan is arguably the worst. Other nations […]
“Don’t be narrow minded!” John 14:1-14
“Let not your hearts be troubled. Believe in God;believe also in me. In my Father’s house are many rooms. If it were not so, would I have told you that […]
“Have life abundantly” John 10:1-10
“Truly, truly, I say to you, he who does not enter the sheepfold by the door but climbs in by another way, that man is a thief and a robber. […]
Sports vs. Church: who wins?
The most important question is – ‘who wins in a long term?’ Read the original article here. “WARNING: The following may make you uncomfortable… may even make you mad! Last […]
The world’s most Christian nation. . .
. . . is soon to be China, according to scholars who project that in ten years the still-Communist country will have 160 million Protestants (the USA has 159 million) […]
“Big questions: Did God really say this?”
(Author well known) This article is for those brothers and sisters of St. Paul’s Tanunda and Zion Gnadenberg who couldn’t come to our regular Bible Study. [Download the article on […]
God not so dead. Atheism in decline worldwide
There seems to be a growing consensus around the globe that godlessness is in trouble. Read the original article here. “Atheism as a theoretical position is in decline worldwide,” […]
“Not everyone knows it. Do you?” Mt 28:1-10
“Now after the Sabbath, toward the dawn of the first day of the week, Mary Magdalene and the other Mary went to see the tomb. And behold, there was a […]
“Be the best Rotarian possible!”
I would like to begin with the words of apostle Paul from his letters to Christians in Philippi. “Do nothing from selfish ambition or conceit, but in humility count others […]
“What a life – receive and rejoice!” Philippians 2:5-11
“Have this mind among yourselves, which is yours in Christ Jesus, who, though he was in the form of God, did not count equality with God a thing to be […]
Easter: what is this?
What is this? Many things. Politically, in many countries of Christian heritage – public holidays. Existentially, the source of ultimate hope and meaning. But the most important, historically, the event […]
The Kingdom at Grace Lutheran Oshawa 