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Dec, 17, 2010 0
Q. I've heard that Nazarenes believe in sinless perfection. Is this true?
A. Isn't it amazing how information can become so twisted and distorted?
Every Nazarene believes that we can pray the Lord's Prayer as we confess and seek forgiveness for our "trespasses," and offer forgiveness to those…
Dec, 17, 2010 0
Q. I've heard that Nazarenes believe in sinless perfection. Is this true?
A. Isn't it amazing how information can become so twisted and distorted?
Every Nazarene believes that we can pray the Lord's Prayer as we confess and seek forgiveness for our "trespasses," and offer forgiveness to those…
Dec, 17, 2010 0
Jennifer Brown is the Global Nazarene Missions International (NMI) president. Elected to the position in 2009, she is the first in that role to be elected from outside the U.S. An ordained elder in the Church of the Nazarene, she holds B.Ed. and M.Ed. degrees from the University of West Indies. A…
Dec, 16, 2010 0
Facebook exists because of our search and hunger for affirmation.
- We want to be loved.
- We want to be liked.
- We want to be talked about.
The "Like" button fuels our desire to be affirmed. If we don't get 17 "Likes," we feel inadequate. If people don't comment on our status, we feel…
Dec, 16, 2010 0
Are you one of those persons obsessed with your family tree? If not, perhaps you have a relative who has an account with ancestry.com and keeps urging you to look at the site and see what has been discovered about your family tree. Usually, we find that we are related to some famous person or…
Dec, 12, 2010 0
My congregation and I are about to embark on new territory for all of us. I am their senior pastor and my husband and I are expecting our first child. It is a pretty amazing thing to me to be pregnant, to be a pastor, and to experience all the joys and expectations in the context of the community…
Dec, 06, 2010 0
The secret of the holy life is self-surrender. Always has been, always will be. That's the conclusion Mary Reuter reached in her 1,112-page Duquesne University Ph.D. dissertation.
She was right, according to the saints in every age. They have termed it self-denial, self-donation, or self-…
Dec, 06, 2010 0
Approximately three years ago, a young man named Karthik became troubled by mental illness. He was hearing voices and increasingly losing touch with reality. He was hospitalized in the psychiatric ward of an Auckland, New Zealand, institution where he remained unable to function or even hold…
Dec, 06, 2010 0
Approximately three years ago, a young man named Karthik became troubled by mental illness. He was hearing voices and increasingly losing touch with reality. He was hospitalized in the psychiatric ward of an Auckland, New Zealand, institution where he remained unable to function or even hold…
Dec, 06, 2010 0
Many Christians, and some churches, allow Advent to get lost amid Christmas celebrations. Some fail to even acknowledge Advent.
Advent is preparation for Christmas, not Christmas itself. It is only in commercial advertising that the Christmas season begins the first of December (or the first of…