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Christian Bible | Moberly CCCB Saints Sign Two For 2012-2013 Season

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Moberly Central Christian College of the Bible Athletics Director Anne Menear reported both the Saints’ men’s and women’s basketball programs have signed a 2012 high school graduate to play basketball for the 2012-2013 season.Tianna Terry of Stroh, Indiana will join the CCCB Lady Saints team led by coach Deronté Polite, who will enter his second season at the helm.Terry is the younger    .. more …

Bible Courses | Seven Steps To Changing How You Think About Debt (so You Can …

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First, start by admitting that you are in debt. While debt is really a pretty black-and-white issue, many people prefer to live in denial (it’s cheaper) than own up to debt. But denial will eventually crack under your feet and plunge you into the icy waters of reality. Size up your debt. How do you do that? Take a pencil and paper and start to write down all of your debt. You may have to call the    .. more …

Sermon Ideas | ShareFaith Vs Graceway Media

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Do you want to improve your church’s media program, but don’t really know where to start? Are you looking at subscribing to a church media website, but aren’t really sure which one is best for your church? Well recently I made a post mentioning some very brief differences between CreationSwap, ShareFaith, and Graceway Media. I decided that I would do some research and bring you an in-depth    .. more …

Sermon | Lori's Bizarre Sermon

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These words from the Constitution on the Sacred Liturgy, Sacrosanctum Concilium, lept to my mind yesterday as I listened to newly installed Archbishop William Lori give the homily at his installation Mass: Lori’s homily, however, did not really draw on the scriptural or liturgical sources present at the event. He mentioned the readings only in passing, once to make a joke and the other to set up    .. more …

Sermon Preparation | New Priest, New Wardrobe For Mass At Sacred Heart

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Father Mark Yates still has some kinks to work out. Leading into his sermon during Wednesday morning’s Mass at Sacred Heart Church, he said, “I’m still learning, so I am going to use my notes.” And after the service, he forgot to turn his microphone off, eliciting some laughs from the Sacred Heart students filing out of the pews. Yates served as a transitional deacon at Sacred Heart    .. more …

Harlem Gospel Choir | A Sarasota Mom, 4 Generations, And A Legacy Of Music

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And for the legendary, classically trained 88-year-old concert pianist, it will end the way it always does – with a celebration of music.”I’d play right up until I gave birth,” Jenkins-Wisner recalls of her first captive audience, “and I could feel them kicking around in the womb. They were dancing while I was playing.”Today – after raising five children, who gave her four grandchildren, five    .. more …

Bible Society | Visiting Southern Snowdonia: Ten Interesting Facts About Bala

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Bala is a market town whose history stretches back to at least the period of the Roman occupation of Wales. Founded by Royal Charter in 1310 by Roger de Mortimer of Chirk Castle, Bala is one of the major towns of Southern Snowdonia and absolutely oozes character.Bala, in Welsh, means the outflow of a lake, so it won’t come as much of a surprise that the first four of our ten interesting facts    .. more …

Sermon Ideas | 10 Tips For Identifying Lucrative Business Ideas!

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Great business idea like gold,often looks undesirable in its raw state when it is surrounded by dirt. However, as it is refined and defined, it begins to shine and bring out its striking qualities.Although business ideas or solutions originate in various ways, their source is God who created us in His image and place in each of us the creative ability.Business ideas come through:1. An idea    .. more …

Christian Bible | The Born Again Christian Movement

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The Born Again Christian Movement can be rooted back when Roman Catholicism was branching into different divisions of the religion (i.e. Paganism, Orthodox). The religions understood the term “born again” as the term for spiritual rebirth. They’ve cited this claim from the Bible, when Jesus Christ was baptized by John as depicted in the Gospel of John. This symbolized that Jesus was born once    .. more …

Bible Gospel | What Happens After Death?

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The subject of death is considered morbid, but it is reality-we are all going to die. It is sad to be separated from our loved one, but death should not be viewed by Christians in an extreme negative connotation. To have such an attitude is to deny the victory the faithful one has received. Our whole purpose as a Christian is to live righteously so that we can go to heaven.Since the beginning of    .. more …