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Why Church Shouldn’t Just Be on Facebook by BONNIE KRISTIAN for Christianity Post The reasons worship services should be offline are all too human. Every week, in the front lobby, the secretary of the church I attended in kindergarten updated the archive of sermon recordings. This was in the early 1990s, so the archive was a spice rack of cassette tapes, with maybe two or three copies for each sermon, in case multiple homebound church members wanted to listen simultaneously. That sort of care for those who can’t make it…

Miracle Has Just Happened on Jerusalem’s Temple Mount! by JONATHAN FELDSTEIN for Charisma News Wait, what? Jews and Christians can pray on the Temple Mount in Jerusalem. Why is that news? At the conclusion of the 1967 Six Day War, Israel negotiated a cease fire with the Arab countries that had gone to war against it. A cease fire, not peace. Israelis believed that after the crushing defeat of the Arab armies and loss of vast territory, the Arabs would finally realize that they could not win militarily, and that…

‘The Answer Is Jesus’: 240,000 Receive Message of Hope During SoCal Harvest, 6,000 Find Faith in Christ by Andrea Morris for CBN News Pastor Greg Laurie welcomed 40,000 people to Angel Stadium in Anaheim, California Sunday for SoCal Harvest while another 200,000 people from around the world enjoyed the event online. Laurie’s Harvest Christian Fellowship in Riverside hosted the event that included special performances by For King & Country, Phil Wickham, Kirk Franklin, and Tori Kelly. After postponing the Live stadium event in 2020 due to COVID, Harvest was excited…

What spiritual gifts does the Bible mention? from Compelling Truth The New Testament mentions certain spiritual gifts in three passages (1 Corinthians 12:4-11, 28; Romans 12:6-8; 1 Peter 4:10-11). Some also include a fourth passage, Ephesians 4:11, though these are technically “offices” or “roles.” In the three passages noted, 1 Corinthians 12 lists at least 11 gifts, Romans 12 mentions seven gifts, and 1 Peter 4 notes two gifts for a total of 20 specific gifts. They include: 1 Corinthians 12:4-11, 28 (some areas are listed as offices or roles and are not included here as gifts) Wisdom Knowledge Faith…

Unexpected Prophetic Word Takes Church From Mini to Mega from CHARISMA NEWS Gossip is never pretty—but when it comes from one pastor about another pastor and his church, it seems to come straight from the enemy. So when Pastor John Lindell of the then-fledgling James River Church, meeting in a storefront in Joplin, Missouri, learned of another pastor spreading unkind words about his church, he went straight to the source. He told the man, “We’re pastors; hey, we should be on the same team,” he tells Dr. Steve Greene on a recent…

GENUINE GOODNESS AND LOVE by Ligonier Bible Study via Servants of Grace Romans 12:9, “Let love be genuine. Abhor what is evil; hold fast to what is good.” Scripture tells us that “God is love” (1 John 4:7-8). Of course, there is a great deal of confusion in our day as to what love means, so there are all manner of false understandings of the love of God both in the church and the world. A true understanding of divine love must take into account all of the Lord’s other attributes,…

Megachurch Pastor Shares Key to Conquering Your Most Challenging Mountains from CHARISMA NEWS Fear. Loneliness. Worry. Grief. These are just some of the pressures we’ve faced, and continue facing, during the past 18 months and more. Dr. Robert Jeffress has another word for them: mountains. As he shares with Dr. Steve Greene on a recent episode of the Greenelines podcast on the Charisma Podcast network, “”In the Bible, mountains represent obstacles that separated God’s people from God’s blessings.” In his new book, Invincible, he shares how we can conquer those mountains by partnering with God. Jeffress says…