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Nazarene Compassionate Ministries and Nazarene Youth International encourages youth groups and others to participate in the 30 Hour Famine. Why is this so important? A child dies from hunger-related causes every 13 seconds. That's as many as 7,000 children younger than age 5 dying daily. Most…

I was in a prayer service one evening, praying for a family whose 38-year-old wife, the mother of three precious girls, had died. The Lord gave me this word picture, which I wrote for the family. A few days ago you, and your family were walking joyfully through the beautiful prairies of life,…

How can we live together within this diverse Christian community in such a way that our relationships are redemptive and a witness to unbelievers of the reconciling work of God in Christ? I wrote this question 35 years ago, early in my ministry at European Nazarene Bible College. Students were…

Mark Louw is the Asia-Pacific Regional director for the Church of the Nazarene. He was elected to that role in August. Born and raised in Cape Town, South Africa, his career path has taken him from a major in the South Africa Infantry Corps to pastor in California and then to missionary in West…

When a pastoral change involving a long-term, previous pastor takes place, it is not unusual to hear the statement, "The new pastor will be a sacrificial lamb." The assumption is the church will go through some really trying times. Many people will leave. The new pastor is condemned to short tenure…

Q: Some say that Article IV (The Holy Scriptures) has changed quite a bit over the years in the Church of the Nazarene's Articles of Faith. I didn't think that was accurate. A: To put it simply: they heard wrong. The Church of the Nazarene's official position on Scripture has been the same since…

An elderly woman was struggling with her first Christmas alone. Her husband had died of cancer just a few months earlier. Now, several days before Christmas, she was almost snowed in by a brutal weather system. She felt terribly alone - so much so she decided she was not going to decorate her home…

On a beautiful day in South Carolina, near where we lived and served as pastor, my family and I headed into the Blue Ridge foothills. As we drove, a little Christian store with "holiness" prominently displayed on its sign caught my attention. We pulled over and walked into the place. I observed the…

If you had eavesdropped on one British couple during the Advent season of 1921, you would have heard lament. The year had been punctuated by a string of deaths. In January, the wife's grandmother died and the husband had a family member killed in a railroad accident. In April, the wife's…

Keith Wright, former Kansas City District superintendent, will be forever known for his words, "Lost and broken people matter to Jesus." In Luke 15, there are three stories about the lost. I've been studying this chapter for many years and recently it occurred to me that Jesus was talking about…