There are two points which are integral in understanding what Easter means for Christians. The blood of Jesus Christ was shed to free humanity: The blood of Jesus Christ is the blood that frees us from the curse over Adam’s sin. It is the blood that allows us to enter the new covenant with God [...]
The next Christmas is soon. Surely, when you see how people around you or on the media talk about what kind of presents they would like to give or receive, your heart starts beating and you send your imagination on its way through the stores to find out what would be the best present for [...]
As the Lord said to Paul in 2 Corinthians 12:9, “My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness”. I do not pretend to call myself a Pastor because I know the Bible inside out and can quote endless passages from memory. I confess that there is not much special [...]
The Evangelical Alliance and the Christian Institute have welcomed the British Parliament’s decision to keep a clause preserving freedom of speech in the Coroners and Justice Bill as a careful balancing of competing human rights. The House of Lords this week resisted pressure from the House of Commons to remove a clarifying clause, introduced by [...]
“Holy” means separate or apart. Historically, there have been Christians who feel that in order to live as God’s holy people, they have to withdraw from the world (hence the emergence of the monastic movement). But in Jesus’s high priestly prayer in John 17: 15-18, we hear something different. As a result, most Christians strive [...]
“I placed a goat’s horn into the stomach of my elder sister to prevent her from having children,” Olivia, 19, and a self-proclaimed witch, now exorcised, told a large congregation at the Ebenezer Healing Church at Kasoa, in the Central Region last week. She had been sent to the church by her relatives after they [...]
I recall the day a pastor in Frankfurt, Germany, asked me if I wanted to continue working for satan, or if I wanted to now work for God. I was so offended by this question. I couldn’t believe that anyone would think that they have the right to even suggest that I might be working [...]
Jesus said, come to me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you and learn from me, for I am gentle and humble in heart, and you will find rest for your souls. For my yoke is easy and my burden is light… What motivates [...]
FORT WAYNE, Ind. (Indiana’s NewsCenter) A new report shows Indiana had the eighth highest rate of child deaths from abuse and neglect in 2007. Officials with the nonprofit group Every Child Matters say 354 Hoosier children died from abuse and neglect from 2001 to 2007, that’s more than 50-per year. Those numbers are up more [...]
If God put a dream in your heart Write it -keep it as a treasure Whatever anyone says, protect the vision with passion… Here is a link to a beautiful song. The title is ’Persevere’, (which has the same meaning in french as in english). Roughly translated the lyrics in english go something like this: [...]