Christian Today
Moderate and Liberal Christians Urge Bush to Push for Middle East Peace
Dozens of Christian leaders from mostly moderate to left-leaning denominations signed onto a letter, urging President Bush to rededicate himself to the establishment of Middle East Peace, January 21, 2005 ...
Child trafficking rears ugly head in tsunami aftermath
Nagapattinam – More than 14,000 people perished when the tidal waves ravaged the south and southeastern coastal regions of India, and of these more than half of them were children. However, rumours of child trafficking and kidnapping...
Quake - Tsunami Death Toll Passes 175,000
South Asia's quake-tsunami death toll soared past 175,000 Monday as Sri Lanka confirmed thousands more dead. Sri Lankan officials said another 7,275 people were now known to have died...
UK Clergywomen March for 'Make Poverty History' Campaign
Nearly 600 clergywomen joined one of Britain's most popular television comedy actresses to campaign for ‘Make Poverty History’ on Thursday by marching to 10 Downing Street — London’s most famous street address and home and office of Prime Minister Tony Blair...
Loving Lord
Jesus replied, "Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind. This is the first and greatest commandment. And second is like it: ‘Love your neighbour as yourself.’ All the Law and the Prophets hang on these two commandments."
- Mt 22: 37-38
Do not love the world or anything in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him.
Music in our Lives...
Date: Mon 31st January - Fri 4th February
Venue: Lee Abbey Devon
Description: Meeting with worship leader Adrian Snell. How can we discover or rediscover a place where music can unite us...
The Discipline of Intimacy with God
Date: Mon 31st January - Fri 4th February
Venue: Lee Abbey Devon
Description: Our lives are often parched and our souls thirst for God. Charlie Cleverly will guide us...
The Mature and Holy Hope of a Nation
Over a Nigerian dinner a few moments ago, I asked a missionary deep into his second decade about the health of the Church in this nation ...
In praise of blasphemy
Last Saturday, BBC2 showed a brilliant piece of musical theatre. Jerry Springer - The Opera was obscene, offensive, blasphemous; and the BBC was absolutely right to broadcast it. Right because the obscenity, offensiveness and blasphemy are used not just to entertain, but to convey a disturbing message...
Coping with Stress in the New Year
It's clear that stress is a killer. The question, however, is what can be done to reduce the ravages of stress? The only answer that Epel and Blackburn's study could offer was...
The Local Church at Prayer
Date: Fri 28th - Sun 30th January
Venue: Lee Abbey Devon
Description: How much does your church live by prayer? How much do you talk to and listen to God?
Meeting Stuart Townend at Lee Abbey
Date: Mon 24th - Fri 28th January
Venue: Lee Abbey Devon
Description: Come and meet Stuart Townend, one of the UK's best known and inspired worship leaders and songwriters...
Tsunami: Christian West Are Biggest Givers
When an earthquake struck deep in the bowels of the Indian Ocean and Tsunami waves broke on distant shores, the world stood in stunned shock at the horror of the dimensions a few breaking waves could cause. No one initially fully realised its horror...
Reformed Leaders say ELCA Study on Sexuality Misleading
Reformed leaders within the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA) called the denomination’s January 13 report on homosexuality "duplicitous" and "disingenuous," and criticised it as nothing...
Gospel for Asia Helping Thousands of Children Orphaned in Sri Lanka
On the invitation of local government officials in Sri Lanka, Gospel for Asia (GFA) is helping thousands of orphans whose parents died in the Dec. 26 tsunami that inundated coastlines in the Asia Pacific region...
Where Was God?
In the aftermath of a cataclysm, with pictures of parents sobbing over dead infants driven into human consciousness around the globe, faith-shaking questions arise: Where was God? Why does a good and all-powerful deity permit such evil and grief to fall on so many thousands of innocents? What did these people do to deserve such suffering...