Posts Tagged ‘worship’
Arts & Culture
Album review: For The Sake Of The World – Bethel Live
Bethel Church like most churches has a music department and music ministry. The Bethel church music ministry however is a blessed one and one that has blessed thousands of people around the world. BETHEL MUSIC was formed for th...
News
Parents seek veto on sexuality teaching in Ontario schools
A group of conservative Christian and Muslim parents in Ontario want schools to notify them before their children are taught about sexuality, birth control, "environmental worship" and occult practices.
Causes
Nigerian church tries to move on after massacre
The church is still empty. Clothes and bibles remain scattered throughout the sanctuary. Dried blood stains the floor.
Features
Churches shifting summer worship from Sunday to Wednesday nights
As New England sweltered in early July, Sunday mornings came and went without a single soul showing up for worship in the hot, stuffy sanctuary of First Congregational Church of Salem, N.H. Even the pastor stayed home.
Apologetics
Question of the week: What’s true worship?
The Apostle Paul described true worship perfectly in Romans 12:1-2: “I urge you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God to present your bodies a living and holy sacrifice, acceptable to God which is your spiritual service of...
Arts & Culture
Christafari to release first worship album in 20 years
Gospel reggae veterans Christafari are working on a new worship album. The album, which will be the band’s first worship album in 20 years, will be funded in part by fans. Since the beginning of March fans have been pledging fu...
Contributor Columns
Partisan politics in the pulpit: Stank wedgie or fragrant worship?
I admire my pastor’s walk with God. It truly is an inspiration to behold. It’s even more amazing when you consider that dude’s strut is complicated by a crazy stank wedgie. The term “stank wedgie” is gross and therefore shouldn...
Suicide bombers attack worship service in Nigeria
Two suicide bombers from the Boko Haram Islamist sect drove a car laden with bombs into the worship service of a Church of Christ in Nigeria (COCIN) congregation here this morning, killing at least one Christian girl and injuri...
Churches Forced to Stop Farsi Worship in Tehran, Iran
Iran’s Ministry of Intelligence has ordered the last two officially registered churches holding Friday Farsi-language services in Tehran to discontinue them. Emmanuel Protestant Church and St. Peter’s Evangelical Church were th...
Apologetics
Question of the week: The pitfalls of celebrity
Question: “Why are there so many tragedies among celebrities?” Answer: Suicides, drug overdoses (whether illicit or prescription), divorces, alcoholism, financial disasters – why are tragedies like these seemingly c...