Articles for tag: Neighbor

June 14, 2009

Christian Standard

Transformed Lives Through God”s Word in Every Language

  By Greg Pruett I cocked my ear to one side, straining to understand the faint yelping I was hearing as I blinked a drop of West African dust and sweat out of my eye. I instinctively moved into the high grass to investigate and found a young boy with a long switch relentlessly whipping a starving puppy to near death. I tried to tell him not to do that, but my first week of language learning just wasn”t enough. The boy”s eyes betrayed no shame. Nobody had ever told him the simplest lesson of Genesis my Sunday school teacher

January 25, 2009

Christian Standard

Stop! in the Name of Love!

  By Patti Cappa I am sure most of us remember the old Supremes” song “Stop! In the Name of Love.” In the 1960s I would stand on my fireplace hearth wildly singing it, just like Diana Ross, using a metal spatula as a microphone, but that”s not the story I want to relate hereSo often through the years at the clergy care center where I work, I have heard men and women say “they have been working so hard at ministry.” In fact, many are putting in 80 hours a week. They are counseling, organizing, going to meeting after

June 22, 2008

Christian Standard

Let There Be Peace

By Victor M. Parachin During one hot, dry summer in Southern California, a brush fire swept through Topanga Canyon, a suburb of Los Angeles, and destroyed 200 homes. Norman Vincent Peale, famed New York City minister and author, learned one of the burned homes belonged to a friend. Peale called him to offer sympathy: “I”m sorry to hear your house burned down.” Peale expected his friend would be traumatized by the fire and his losses, but was astonished that his friend sounded at peace with the tragedy. “Yes, the house did burn down,” he said, “but my wife and children

June 15, 2008

Christian Standard

Evangelism Is Natural Church

By David Bycroft A city dweller finally had enough of big-city life and decided to move his family to the country. He had also become enamored with lambs, so he decided to start raising sheep. He purchased six ewes, each with baby lambs, from a neighbor and began enjoying farm life. After a year went by and the lambs were fully grown, he began wondering why no new lambs had been born. He went back to the neighbor from whom he had purchased his small flock and asked him about it. His neighbor asked when the ram had been put

April 6, 2008

Orrin Root

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Public Prayer

What does it mean to lead a congregation in prayer? This classic piece urges leaders to pray clearly and specifically, awaken shared gratitude and need, and prepare thoughtfully so the congregation can truly say “amen.”

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