704 articles on "religion"

Understanding The Term Church

The term church was first used by Christ during the time when he declared that He will build the church as it was written on the book of Matthew 16:18. Definitely, the Apostles who heard it from Christ knew what it means, because they didn't que...

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The Winter Solstice Celebrations With Meditations, Decorations & Incense

Winter Solstice or Mid Winter comes around in the Northern hemisphere, or much of the Western World, on December 21st. This is a magical time of the year and throughout the ages of mankind religions have gravitated toward this date to hold major cer...

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Awareness = Possibility

Just as people often resist being awakened from physical sleep, they are much more resistant being awakened from spiritual sleep. Many people have had moments of spiritual awakening, only to ignore them and return to the comfort of their previous rou...

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Covenant Media - Religious Broadcasting

Covenant Media, the nation's fastest growing full service Christian Media and non-profit advertising agency. Our specialty firm relies on decades of experience with a focus on Christian marketing and religious broadcasting. Grow your ministry an...

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The Two Building Blocks in Sermon Jokes

In general, we can say individuals laugh at two issues: surprise and misfortune. These two developing blocks are necessary for fantastic humor. A cartoon containing a lot of surprise would be a cartoon showing Pope Benedict XVI riding a skateboard. ...

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The Rite of Water Baptisim

As Christians, one of the first rites I believe every born-again believer should observe, either at the moment of being saved in the Lord or sometime shortly thereafter, is to be baptized with water. You can either be baptized with water at the momen...

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Material Abundance In The End Times

The world of the post-Industrial Revolution is one of vast material wealth, where average citizens enjoy a lifestyle that in generations past would have been the envy of kings and queens. Yet, in spite of this great material prosperity, most of the w...

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Salvation of the Professing Christians

The way of salvation that professing Christians, like Born Again Christians, knew is too easy to do. According to them, by just accepting Christ as personal savior is enough for us to be saved on Judgment Day. This pronouncement is backed them up wit...

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Youth Ministry Resources - Stop Creating Resources For Your Ministry

I was sitting in my office the other day and had an interesting thought about youth ministry resources. If I never created another game or sermon for my students, would that make me a bad student pastor? Possibly, after all you do have to listen to G...

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Gift of Love

God's grand plan unfolds through the exercise of the ordinary means of grace Word and Sacrament in the midst of His people who make use of their God-ordained gifts, and are intended to bring blessing to us and glory to God through ordinary liv...

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