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I Desire Mercy Not Sacrifice
Experiencing the mercy of God in our lives
Ready & Faithful
Looking to Jesus for help now and hope in the future
Why Suffering?
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Majority Of Christians has shifted from being located in North America and Europe back in ’66 to only 37% today. Now the southern Hemisphere is home to over half the believers ...read more
Tags: What Is Evangelism?
Halloween has become the second most popular decorating holiday. This year Americans will spend more than $1 billion doing so. ...read more
Tags: Paranormal
The number of unchurched adults in the U.S. has doubled since ‘91. That growth is especially pronounced among men, people under 40, singles, and people living in ...read more
The number of adults involved in small groups has jumped from 12% to 20% since ‘94. (Foster ...read more
Tags: Church General
American Life Expectancy has risen to a record of 77.6 years. Women now expect to live to age 80.1 and men 74.8. Japanese have the longest life ...read more
Tags: Death
A Legacy Person is someone who has been in the same job 3 to 4 years or more. They tend to not be innovative because they are protecting systems and products they’ve helped create. Robert Herbold, author of The Fiefdom Syndrome, (Currency 2004), encourages managers to fight legacy thinking, break ...read more
Tags: Workplace
Gambling by cell phone has sky-rocketed. The number of betting pages downloaded is expected to approach 3 million this year, a rise of 367% over ...read more
Tags: Addiction
The financial wealth of the world has moved from $28.5 trillion in ‘03 to $30.8 trillion in ‘04, an 8.2% increase. (Foster ...read more
Tags: Money
Reshaping The Church Researcher George Barna has identified 4 factors he describes as “indicative of the reshaping of the church in the U.S.” They are: (1) The priorities embraced by church leaders. Most local churches essentially ignore: ministry to children, ministry to families and prayer. (2) ...read more
Wheaton College has revised its behavioral standards and will now permit faculty, staff and graduate students to use alcohol and tobacco. Additionally, the issue of dancing on campus will now be a matter of ...read more
Tags: Christian Values
America’s Faith Changing: George Barna has discovered discernible faith transitions have occurred across various subgroups. Young Adults—When Baby Busters (born between ‘65 and ‘83) enter a new life stage, a 1st marriage or parenthood, religious faith stabilizes. Since ’96 7% more attend Sunday ...read more
Tags: Faith General
Quality Of Life: Barna Research Group has uncovered a strong relationship between a person’s comfort with his quality of life and either his religious faith or socioeconomic status. 88% of adults claim they are either very happy or somewhat happy with their quality of life. 92% also feel integrated ...read more
Inflatable Church: A British designer has created what he believes is the world’s first inflatable church. Standing 47 feet high to the tip of the steeple, the gray plastic structure, which can be carried around on the back of a truck, includes a blow-up pulpit, organ, ...read more
Dialog Encouraged: The NAE has adopted guidelines for churches for urging evangelicals, who have not made a priority of interfaith dialogue, to interact more with Muslims. But the guidelines promote a fundamentally different approach to interfaith relations than that used by mainline Protestant ...read more
Tags: Evangelism How To
The suicide rate for juvenile boys has trippled since ’70. (Foster Letter ...read more
The Christian ideal has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and ...read more
If our language has appeared to some strong and severe, or even intemperate, let the gentlemen pause for a moment and reflect on the importance and gravity of the subject... We had to deal with human life. In a matter of less importance we could entertain no compromise. The American Medical ...read more
Tags: Abortion
A National park ranger in British Columbia has two sets of huge antlers, as wide as a man’s reach locked together. Evidently 2 bull moose began fighting, their antlers locked, and they could not get ...read more
Tags: Anger
Boston has seen its number of Protestant churches double in the past 30 years, from 300 in ’70 to over 600 today. Emmanuel Gospel Center research finds ...read more
Today, the IRS has about twice the budget of the FBI, and 8 times as many ...read more