How Should Christians Respond to a Worldwide Crisis?
How should Christians respond to this worldwide crisis? How should we biblically think in this fallen world that strikes panic and fear of our life, family, and churches?
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How should Christians respond to this worldwide crisis? How should we biblically think in this fallen world that strikes panic and fear of our life, family, and churches?
In certain countries, there are 3,572,000 orphans, with nearly 5000 children with Down syndrome who are unwanted. Many of those children are killed at birth. The “lucky” ones end up in orphanages.
Because we are adopted as sons and daughters of the highest, we celebrate together the beautiful adoption of the rescue, redemption the restoration of the heavenly Father’s love.
Could someone who struggles with past sin be disqualified from preaching? At what point does a man who struggles with pornography be disqualified from ministry altogether? Can a man who is divorced or remarried be a leader in a church? Can he ever be restored again?
The Son of Glory came to fight our glory battle so that we would be freed from our bondage to any glory but the glory of God.
The longer I’m in ministry, it seems like anxiety seems to be more prevalent in ministry. How could we deal with our anxiety? Where does anxiety come from?
The Bible abounds with the truth about worry, fear, and anxiety, although applying these truths can be a complex and difficult task.
The fundamental question in the midst of sorrow is, “What is a proper grieving from a biblical standpoint?”
Because of the cross and the empty tomb, the way is now open for all to come. Sins have been fully paid and fully accessible!
Many people are seeking purpose and identity horizontally such as their wife, from a job, from achievement, from health, or wealth which the cycle continues on over and over again.
Am I intended to be the hero of my HEART and the hero of MY story? Is this life about believing in myself and following my own heart?
“The mission of the Church is to seek and to save them that are lost.” – James H. Aughey
To get at the nature of that faith, it is helpful to ponder why faith alone justifies. Why not love, or some other virtuous disposition?
I come with singing and everlasting joy within my heart. I obtain joy and gladness, and sorrow and sighing goes away.
“The central miracle asserted by Christians is the Incarnation. They say that God became Man. Every other miracle prepares for this, or exhibits this, or results from this. ” ― C. S. Lewis
“If you believe what you like in the gospel, and reject what you don’t like, it is not the gospel you believe, but yourself.” ― Augustine
God has designed our souls to be satisfied in worshiping Him.
We are in the Great Commission by living empowered by the Great Commandment love.
How can we continue on with faith in the life of anxiety when things seem uncertain? What are some ways to trust in our God in the midst of the storm?
The doctrine of hell is one of the most difficult aspects of the Christian faith for many people.
“He is not here,” tells them that their search is a vain one; no more should they look in a tomb for Jesus. “He has been raised,” where the passive points to the truth that the Father raised his Son.
The fundamental question that our 21st century evangelical churches must ask is this; If we could have everything in this world, yet Christ is not there, can we be satisfied?
The word “Christian” does not mean “one who admires Christ,” nor “the recipient of Christ’s blessings,” nor even “one who believes in Christ.”
This is absolutely a counter-cultural model. This radically changes everything of how we think and howe we function as a church.