Life
A Christian view on savings and financial security
One of the reasons why Jesus bought our lives is so that we may experience freedom, and that freedom includes freedom from financial insecurity and anxiety anchored on money.
Christian doctor saves stranger's life by donating her kidney: 'I've been given so much â why not give a little back?'
She believed God would eventually work a miracle to cure a man who has been suffering from chronic kidney disease for more than 30 years. But Dr. Ester Kwok, a Christian physician from Stanford Health Care in California, felt that such a miracle could only happen if she would help make it happen.
92-year-old woman with 'insurmountable energy' relishes God's extraordinary gifts of youth and vitality
Living a long enjoyable life free from much of the constraints of aging is undoubtedly one of the greatest blessings God can give to His people. Ninety-two-year-old Phyllis Sues, a yoga and tango enthusiast from Los Angeles, California, is one of the lucky people who have been blessed with a long productive, happy, and exhilarating life spent on bringing out the best of their God-given talents to help and inspire other people.
What makes a healthy church?
If we truly understand the message of Christ and how He desires for all saints to exist for each other, we will know that healthy relationships will always lead to healthy churches.
Why God will still love us even when we aren't changed yet
Many Christians find themselves often repeating the same sin over and over again even after they surrender it to Jesus. As a result, they may think that God could not possibly love them after they repeatedly humiliate and malign God. But that's not what God says.
If love bears all things, do we put up with a person's sin?
Looking at the example that Jesus lived out as a leader, He never missed an opportunity to rebuke His followers and disciples, but there was a way that He did it and with a right heart stance as well.
How should we respond to unanswered prayer?
The life that we live is not our own as the Bible tells us that we have been bought at a high cost -- the blood and life of Jesus Christ. That being said, when we surrender our lives to God, we give Him full ownership of everything that occurs in our lives whether it's what we prayed for or not.
Press in and love on: The new wave of Christian jargon and why it's not half as clever as we think it is
In recent years, the church has developed a little bit of self-awareness when it comes to the ultra-cheesy phrases which characterised it in the 1980s and 90s.
God cannot make promises He cannot keep
Through the process of time, most of us would have received a revelation of God as the promise keeper, and I'm not talking about just knowing scriptures about it, but actually experiencing the faithful promises of God coming through in our lives.
10 Bible verses to help you be brave in troubled times
You alone cannot conquer your fears. But God can. You plus God is a winning team, every time. Here are 10 Bible verses to remind you to be brave.
What Pentecost tells the Church today: Three things that could change how we live
The first Christian Pentecost is often called the 'birthday of the Church'.
A simple rhythm for a profound spiritual life
What does Jesus call his earliest followers to do? Two things, and two things alone.
Places to pray for: the countries that could do with your prayers right now
While we can't know everything about every place, the following suggestions can act as a starting point in improving the focus of your prayers for others.
Harry Potter and three other books that Christian opinion is divided on
A headteacher has urged parents to prohibit their children from reading Harry Potter because in his opinion it 'encourages difficult behaviour in children'. Whether you agree or disagree with this headteacher's comments, popular books have long divided opinion among Christians. As well as Harry Potter, here are three other books which many Christians have found controversial.
Perseverance in prayer: 3 things Christians can learn from Hannah in the Bible
Hannah â wife of Elkanah and mother to Samuel â lived for years with unfulfilled promises, yet never failed to turn to God.
4 simple ways to recharge your spiritual life
We so easily fall into the trap of letting our spiritual life fall by the wayside, so how do we break that pattern?