Serving God's Purposes in Our Generation (Acts 13:36b)
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Engaging With Cultural Products

I am often asked the question: Why do you write on music videos and movies? I have always often the querry interesting. The question is “Why?” rather than “how?”. My response has always been ” “Why not?”. The question ”…

Church Planting Video

At the conference in Buffalo, we were shown a video documenting some of the church planting work that is going on with the CCCC throughout the country. It’s now up online. Church Multiplication and the CCCC (Long) from CCCC USA…

Connecting To God

"Praying Till We PRAY"by A.W. Tozer Dr. Moody Stuart, a great praying man of a past generation, once drew up a set of rules to guide him in his prayers. Among these rules is this one: "Pray till you pray." The…

Praying Hands

Back in the fifteenth century, in a tiny village near Nuremberg, lived a family with eighteen children. Eighteen! In order merely to keep food on the table for this mob, the father and head of the household, a goldsmith by…

American Students Heading To India

For the last three years or so, Asian Indians have been the largest foreign student population in American universities. Despite a five per cent drop from a record 80,000 plus last year, India still heads the list with 76,503 admissions…

How Americans View Themselves?

Barna Group is a pollster like Gallup and does very interesting survey of American Christendom. Some of it are controversial, while many are useful. This one is very interesting - How Americans view themselves? The research reveals that adults generally…

IKEA, Sleepys, Raymour, & Rest

Can you believe we’ve been residents of Philadelphia for a week already? It has been a blur for us. I feel like all we’ve done for the last 7 days is unpack boxes and visit every furniture store in Philadelphia.…

Argentina Trip Highlights

    * The Last Two Days - The whole group spent the last two days going out and making it the best two days. Within those 48 hours, I only had 2-3 hours of sleep! On the last day, we…

Quotable Quotes

Stanley's analytical statements about Christian Life and Ministry __________________ "Unless" and "until" are the two keywords of the Kingdom of God. "Unless" you are born of the Spirit, you cannot enter the Kingdom. "Until" you are baptized with the Spirit, you…

Sin And Computer Virus

Some days my computer helps me fly like an eagle. Other times, it bogs me down like a hippopotamus. On “eagle days” I’m grateful for my computer. But there are those “hippo days” when I rue the day I bought…

The Queen City

We had a sweet time at the National CCCC Conference in Buffalo. Here are some thoughts coming out of our time there. I love that we are connected both to Acts 29 and the 4Cs. It’s important that we’re not…

Herbs from the Bible

by Kathy & Bharati Ramteke Plants have been used throughout history, (and even during pre-historic times), by civilizations around the world for food, medicine, tools, household implements and spiritual ritual. So, it is not surprising to discover that both the…

Success Mantras from Proverbs 30

Wisdom Way of an eagle in the sky (big picture), the way of a snake on a rock (eye for details), the way of a ship on the high seas (float and not sink; treat upon all obstacles), and the…

And Just Like That

I woke from my long slumber to find…I stepped out of my place to realize…I began to remember again why You… And just like that I’m wide-eyed and awakeAnd just like that I know why You’ve made meAnd just like…

Pati Parameshwar Challenged!

Nandhini Raichand ( played by Jaya Bachan in Karan Johar’s Kabhi Kushi Kabhi Gham) is perhaps the best delineation of the ideal women within Hindi movies in recent times. And yet, her characterization presents a tweaking of conventional modes in…