Praising Through My Problems Video by Pastor Chad Veach for ZOE Church Los Angeles Do you have some problems? Praise will give your problems a problem! Praise will position you in the presence of God! Join us this week as Pastor Chad Veach starts a brand new series on the “Power In My Praise!” Video Source
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UPPERROOM Monday Prayer 8/5/19 Video Video Source
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How an Eternity Full of Tomorrows Can Help Us Get Through Today Podcast by Cold Case Christianity In this episode of Incarnate Investigation, Jimmy Wallace (J. Warner’s son) taps into his experience as a police officer to discuss our inclination to view the world through our temporal, finite experience. Why do we struggle in the moment as Christians when we know we’ve been promised eternity? Incarnate Investigation podcasts will be featured occasionally as part of the Cold-Case Christianity Podcast collection. You can subscribe to the Cold-Case Christianity Weekly Podcast (which…
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God and Evil Podcast by David Platt for Secret Church If God is good and in control, then how can there be evil in the world? In this episode, David Platt concludes Secret Church 4 by answering this question through the lens of Scripture. Podcast HERE>>> More at Secret Church>>>
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How To Forgive? As has been stated on several occasions to this point there is, in fact, a manual for life and it is called the Holy Bible. This is “book” explains to those willing to hear how make good choices and how to treat one another. Forgiveness is a center piece of the model for life described within the pages of the Bible. Making amends is a center piece in walking through the Steps of AA. Feeling the pain of others, as our destructive lives rolled over the people…
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‘Choosing Between God and The Gang’: El Salvador Ministry Run By Ex-Hitman Freeing Men From Lives of Violence By Will Maule for Faith Wire On the streets of La Dina, El Salvador, extortion, robbery and murder are a way of life. The area has been decimated by gang culture, with MS-13 and Bario 18 tearing the streets apart. Simply put, if you are a young man growing up in La Dina, your life expectancy is going to be devastatingly low. As such, the rate of incarceration is stratospheric. But while it…
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Was Pascal right about God and belief? by Mark Vernon for Christian Today Pascal’s Wager has become a notorious reason to believe in God. The French mathematician and philosopher proposed that it’s rational to believe in God because if you’re wrong it won’t make any difference, but if you’re right it might make every difference as to where you spend eternity. It’s as if he was suggesting it’s better to hedge your bets and believe, only that seems duplicitous and inauthentic. However, there is more to the wager than just…
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True Doctrine Doesn’t Wait by MARK GALLI for Christianity Today Without good theology, you can’t have Christlike love and compassion. In a recent email to me, a writer encouraged CT to pursue a new trajectory. He argued we should move away from orthodoxy, even if “beautiful,” and instead in a direction where orthopathy (meaning right feelings or emotions) and orthopraxis (right practice) are seen as “first-order issues responsive to the two great commandments and the mission of Jesus, and witnessed through love and unity.” This is a near-perfect summary of…
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IF GOD ALREADY KNOWS EVERYTHING WE NEED, WHY PRAY? by Antonio Coppola for Core Christianity If we believe that God is sovereign, all-knowing, all-powerful and that he is a good Father who knows all our needs, then why bother to pray? Isn’t praying to God then a waste of time? As we shall see, prayer is certainly no waste of time. Why pray then? The short answer is that God commands us to pray. Jesus instructs us to pray and even details exactly how we should pray in Matthew 6:9-13, in…
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THERE IS NO BETTER TIME THAN RIGHT NOW TO ASK THE LOST IN YOUR LIFE WHERE THEY WOULD GO IF THEY DIED TONIGHT BY HANDING THEM A GOSPEL TRACT by Geoffrey Grider for Now the End Begins Take a close look at the picture of the gas station pump in the main photo at the top of the article, and look close. Do you see anything unusual? If you look closely you will see an NTEB gospel tract placed securely in the metal frame of the advertisement on the top…
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