Praying for the children of Africa who are living in some of the hardest conditions anywhere.
Changing the world
one child at a time.
Join us for 21 days of prayer August 15 through September 4, 2010. We’ll post daily prayer guide information for you to track along with. You can also post your own prayers on our facebook page at www.facebook.com/ChildrensCup.
Let us know your are praying with us by attending our 21 Days of Prayer Facebook Event.
Welcome to the 19th annual 30 Days Muslim Prayer Focus.Follow the 30 Days of Prayer Online
It coincides yearly with Ramadan (the holy month of fasting in Islam). This prayer movement (currently coordinated out of France and previously from Australia) calls upon Christians to make a concerted but considerate effort during this time to learn about, pray for and reach out to Muslim neighbors - across the street and around the world.
It is not our intention with this prayer focus to disparage Islam or Muslim sentiments in any way. We recognize that humans and the Muslim world are far too complex to easily condense or explain with a mere booklet. Yet, as Christians, we long for all the world's people to have an opportunity to understand the grace of God incarnated in Jesus Christ. To this end we inform ourselves, pray for, and support respectful opportunities to make that grace also known among Muslims.
Each year a new illustrated prayer guide is published in dozens of languages and locations around the world.
Thank you for participating.
People listening to their pastor preach on Sunday morning may now ask a question that no one has ever asked before: Is this live or is this on tape delay?
More pastors are using high-def videos, and even holograms, to beam their Sunday morning sermons to remote "satellite" churches that belong to their congregation, as I detail in a story today.
They are pastors like Rev. Ed Young, senior pastor of Fellowship Church in Dallas, Texas. Young broadcast videos of his sermons from his “mother” church to other congregations in Texas and even one in Florida.
Young says he doesn’t think parishioners who watch his video-projected sermons at other locations are being short-changed:
I don't think you lose a thing. I would argue you could see me better when you're at a venue made for screens.
Yet the Rev. Thomas Long, a nationally recognized authority on preaching and author of "Preaching from Memory to Hope," says something is lost when preachers beam in their Sunday morning sermons:
There's something about embodiment - that the person who delivers the sermon is actually there - that's important. It's important in the same way that someone physically visits someone in a hospital or buries a loved one - they don't fax it in.
We live in a culture that’s becoming more visual. Are pastors like Young just taking advantage of existing technology or is there something vital about a pastors being physically present when they preach?
The findings have surfaced with ominous regularity over the last few years, and with little notice: Members of the clergy now suffer from obesity, hypertension and depression at rates higher than most Americans. In the last decade, their use of antidepressants has risen, while their life expectancy has fallen. Many would change jobs if they could.
Public health experts who have led the studies caution that there is no simple explanation of why so many members of a profession once associated with rosy-cheeked longevity have become so unhealthy and unhappy.
Read the full article from NY TIMES >
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