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Reasons to Assemble Not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together, as is the manner of some, but exhorting one another, and so much the more as you see the Day approaching. Hebrews 10:25 Recommended Reading Acts2:42-47 It is said that one Sunday, King Louis XIV of France arrived at his chapel for…

Clinical Psychologist Karra Harrington said, “Maintaining high quality relationships may be a key for protecting brain health from the negative impacts of loneliness. Older adults who feel more satisfied in their relationships have a 23% lower risk of dementia, while those who feel their relationships…

Katie Davis, a young girl from Tennessee, moved to Uganda immediately after graduating high school to serve others. She spends her days helping orphans, teaching school, and feeding street children. Not long after arriving in Uganda, Katie was amazed at how difficult it was for families to send their…

Look out America! There’s a new church movement rising across the country, and guess what they all have in common? They all don’t believe in God! Yes, the growth of atheist churches and even atheist mega-churches are becoming more and more popular as people want the warm feelings of a church experience…

A new listing of churches within a denomination has found an interesting trend among young Christians. The survey conducted for Churches or Christ that most denominations are seeing a decline in overall membership. Carl Royster who conducted the survey says he found an increasing number of Americans…

In Flickering Pixels, Shane Hipps writes, “Digital social networking inoculates people against the desire to be physically present with others in real social networks—networks like a church or a meal at someone’s home. Being together becomes nice but nonessential.” --Flickering Pixels, 115 Acts 2:46…

Vince Lombardi, the former head coach of the Green Bay Packers, emphasized going over the fundamentals in his training camp. He would repeatedly go over football basics like block and tackle, and review his plays over and over again from page 1. Through this method of building on a strong basic foundation,…

54 year-old Howard Snitzer of Goodhue, Minn. collapsed on a freezing sidewalk. Two car mechanics and a high school teacher ran over to help. “For the next 96 minutes, a tag team of more than 25 other people, including volunteer firefighters, took turns performing CPR on Snitzer, until a rescue helicopter…

Back in 2000, the FCA leaders of Pearl River Central High School in Carriere, Ms, were discussing plans for the remainder of the school year. "Everyone was writing down goals and plans when suddenly a teacher suggested we reach our school for Christ," said Cary-Anne Dell, a member of the FCA's leadership…

"One hundred religious persons knit into unity by careful organization do not constitute a church any more than eleven dead men make a football team. The first requisiste is life, always." A. W. Tozer, The Dwelling Place of God

The way the early Church understood slavery was different to our conceptions of African cotton fields or butlers of the aristocracy. Slaves were literally everywhere in the Greco-Roman context - 1 in 3 people in the empire were slaves. Status as a free or freedman was pretty special then. And yet, in…

The men and women who have moved the world have been the men and women the world could not move. Many years ago a man was commissioned by the king of Denmark to lead a band of soldiers against pirates who were reeking havoc with shipping along a certain coastal area. The man set up his headquarters on…

The new preacher loaded his car with his large family and visited an old deacon on the farm. After the introductions there was an awkward pause as the unexpected guests looked for chairs upon which to sit. The parlor had only two chairs. "Brother, I don't believe you have enough chairs," suggested the…

Christianity Without the Church? The results of a new study conducted by The Barna Group reveal that a majority of adults now believe that there are a variety of biblically legitimate ways to experience God outside of the conventional church. At least 50 percent of adults who took part in the survey…

THE RICH FAMILY IN CHURCH By Eddie Ogan I'll never forget Easter 1946. I was 14, my little sister Ocy was 12,and my older sister Darlene 16. We lived at home with our mother, and the four of us knew what it was to do without many things. My dad had died five years before, leaving Mom with seven school…

Some of us probably don’t remember but five years ago next month (July 2002) nine miners were trapped in a coal mine in Pennsylvania. On a Wednesday evening the mine collapsed filling with water. The miners were not pulled from the mine until Sunday morning. The miners were 250 feet underground in a…

How can you tell the Holy Spirit is present? It is just like batteries in a flashlight. You can't tell the flashlight has batteries in it until you try to turn it on. When it is turned on you know if there are batteries or not. With the Christian life, if the Holy Spirit is present the Christian shines…

Thanksgiving Quiz – The Answers! Here are the answers to last week’s Thanksgiving Quiz: 1. When did a whole nation pause to give thanks to God? The Israelites, after the crossing of the Red Sea (Exodus 15). 2. When did four thousand people praise God with instruments? Under the appointment of King David…

On the eve of the Persian Gulf War, ABC correspond­ent Sam Donaldson asked a young soldier if he was afraid. The soldier responded by gesturing toward his buddies and saying that he was not afraid because he was with his family. The other soldiers shouted to the young manto repeat what he had just told…

PARENTING A survey by a British Magazine for teenagers suggests teens may not be as rebellious as most people think. Bliss magazine asked 5,000 young people, with an average age of 15, to take part in a study examining social and political attitudes of teenagers across the country. The survey found the…

Baptism There are at least three reasons why every believer should be baptized. First, they should be baptized to follow the example of Jesus. Matthew 3:16 says, "And after being baptized, Jesus went up immediately from the water; and behold, the heavens were opened, and he saw the Spirit of God descending…

Baptism There are at least three reasons you should be baptized. First, you should be baptized to follow the example of Jesus."And after being baptized, Jesus went up immediately from the water; and behold, the heavens were opened, and he saw the Spirit of God descending as a dove, and coming upon Him,"…

The Holy Torment of Preaching 13 For “everyone who calls on the name of the Lord will be saved.” 14 But how are they to call on him in whom they have not believed? And how are they to believe in him of whom they have not heard? And how are they to hear without someone preaching? 15 And how are they to…

Lechem - Bread by Josa Bivin1 "For the bread of God is that which comes down out of heaven, and gives life to the world." John 6:33 When Richard and Lucinda (our volunteer workers) first came to Israel, they noticed plastic sacks containing pieces of bread hanging from the sides of the trash containers…

Evangelist Vance Havner wrote, “My father was faithful to the house of God. When he felt like it and when he didn’t, when the preaching was good and when it wasn’t, my father was there.” Today’s crowd isn’t quite so faithful, nor is our society very helpful. A group of churches in New Jersey recently…