Words and actions are powerful. They can build people up, or tear them down. They can pour out love, or breed hate. They can establish trust, or destroy it. They can soothe deep and powerful wounds. Or they can create them. Most of us have experienced wound-inflicting words or actions from other people at some […]
Article by Andre Yee (founder of Gospel Translations) What do you do when you experience fruitlessness or even failure in your work? How do you respond when your hard work yields poor results? Whether you’re a faithful pastor with a struggling church, a diligent college student with poor grades, or a involved parent with a prodigal […]
by RT Kendall If we wait for those who have hurt us to repent first, we will almost certainly wait for a long, long time. We also give ourselves a justification to stay bitter the rest of our lives. This cannot be right. Even non-Christian organizations are emerging to show the value of forgiveness; their […]
by MaryLynn Johnson I don’t remember the day I was diagnosed with a physical disability. I was only three years old. Disability is something that has always been a part of my life, and it probably always will. Growing up, there was no doubt in my mind God created me the way he had for a […]
We spend a lot of our life in the workplace and often with people who have different beliefs to our own, this is therefore a vital place for us to talk about Jesus and the difference he makes. Sometimes the headlines we see in the media suggest that Christians aren’t able to share their faith at […]
What do financial advisors, prosperity preachers, and Jesus all have in common? As a financial advisor, I’m constantly providing counsel to all types of people about how to manage their money well. Prosperity preachers talk about money as if it were some type of investment seed: you give to God and he must give it […]
Friends with God The theme of friendship takes us right to the heart of the Bible’s message. God is relational. He has from eternity existed in a relationship of loving friendship within the Godhead: Father, Son and Holy Spirit. He created us in his image as relational beings, uniquely able to relate to him in […]
Do Christians and Muslims worship the same deity? It has become one of the most pressing and controversial questions in the world in the last fifteen years. The question was stirred up in earnest in 2001 in the aftermath of fundamentalist Muslims flying hijacked commercial jetliners into the twin towers of the World Trade Center […]
Out of the frying pan into the fire. Such a fate has befallen a Christian family who fled persecution in Pakistan only to realise later on that their situation has gone from bad to worse. Interviewed by CBN News recently, Mustaq Faisal said he and his family had no choice but to abandon their home […]
David Cameron was accused of “morally indefensible” equivocation over the slaughter of Christians and other religious minorities in the Middle East as he dismissed calls to classify the jihadist attacks as genocide as “politicisation”. He is facing a potential rift with Britain’s most important ally over the issue after the US Secretary of State John […]