It has been said that one of our great purposes in life is to give birth to ourselves. We have to find the purpose for which God created us and allow Him to give birth to it. Along the way, we must be very careful about what we allow to define us.
God’s Not Dead, a film about the existence of God and defending one’s faith, is making waves on Facebook. The movie’s trailer, posted on the popular social networking site, has racked up 6.5 million views, 1.4 million likes and has been shared 720,981 times.
Congregations from multiple denominations, including the Church of God, have teamed with the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association (BGEA) to sponsor MY HOPE AMERICA—what may very well be Graham’s final personal mass crusade.
There are many things that a grandfather can leave for his grandson. For instance, the grandson may carry his grandfather’s looks, legacy or worldview. He may even receive his possessions. For me, when I sit and contemplate my grandfather, Billy Graham, I think that one of the greatest gifts he has given me in his twilight years is something more subtle. He’s given me a lesson.
Pentecostals get a bad rap these days from all sides. Secularists don’t like us because we are morally conservative. Some mainline Christians classify us as holy rollers. And fundamentalists like John MacArthur question our very faith, claiming that all our experiences with the Holy Spirit are fake.
Cleveland, Tenn.—National Christian leaders Joined the Awakening America Alliance at a strategic summit focused on establishing a National Prayer Accord and Preach2Engage strategies to be used for renewing God’s people and extending Christ’s witness in the nation. The Alliance—formed in 2007 from a broad coalition of Faith Community leaders—recognizes that one of its greatest strengths is establishing a strong core of friendships at this historical moment in our nation as we want impact not image. In the words of summit speaker Bob Bakke, Senior Teaching Pastor of Hillside Church in Bloomington, Minnesota: “Passion is the burden of friends, and history is transformed among friends.”Alliance
