PRAISE: Thank the Lord for his working in hearts of friends of the ministry and for the encouraging responses we saw at our recent Southern California Briefing, to our October Translations appeal and to our early fall New Donor letters.Thank God for the progress on my projects at work, and for me at home. PRAYER: Please …
A Christian Economist Theology and Biblical Worldview of Work
In a recent interview with WORLD Magazine, David Bahnsen, the founder and managing partner of The Bahnsen Group, offers a refreshingly concise and incisive response. What does a Christian approach to work and economics actually look like? Click on image here to go watch and heard David's commentary on work. How does this view sync up with yours? …
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Where are you looking for joy and peace?*
Blaise Pascal was a 17th-century mathematician and philosopher who had a dramatic religious experience in his early thirties. Out of that experience came a work entitled “Pensées,” a collection of his ruminations and thoughts. In thinking about his conversion, Pascal wrote this: All complain, princes and subjects, noblemen and commoners, old and young, strong and weak, …
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October Praise and Prayer Updated
Prayer is absolutely necessary if we want to carry on God's work properly. God has intended it to be so!" E.M. Bounds PRAISE: Thank God for the encouraging response to the Haiti relief efforts in late August. Both aid and ministry tools have gone to the hardest hit areas in the southern part of the country …
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Subscribe to the Podcast, and get the whole season.“The Unheard Story” podcast talks about what happens after the message of Jesus is shared. Season two is out now. Listen to season two now or catch up on season one. Search for “The Unheard Story” on Apple podcasts, Spotify or wherever you listen to podcasts. To …
Showing God’s Love by Providing for Needs and Then Reaching Hearts in Central Asia
Here's a report from workers on the ground using Jesus Film Project tool along with humanitarian aid which is leading to "changed lives."* “We have been traveling to all sides of our country to encourage churches and develop partnerships with pastors. Many pastors receive us with joy. Recently we organized a charity project in our …
By-product of Giving
"Joy increases as you give it, and diminishes as you try to keep it for yourself. In giving it, you accumulate a deposit of joy greater than you ever believe possible." Norman Vincent Peale American minister, author and progenitor of "positive thinking."
Guarding What is Most Important!
Proverbs has many pearls of wisdom, this is one of the most foundational ones.
Why understanding God’s ownership is essential*
Have you noticed that it’s all or nothing with God? Throughout Scripture, we see “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your might” (Deuteronomy 6:5). Though God’s people failed to obey, God made this promise through his prophet, “I will cleanse them from all the guilt of their sin against me, …
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Record Teams are Traveling Again!
Jesus Film® recording teams are traveling again. A couple of months, a team traveled to the Middle East and Central Asia and here’s a report from one of the recordists. Her team was recording “Rivka,” our follow-up and discipleship video series which focuses especially on women and families. It is a series of a dozen …
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