Where can I find the recording of Friday, June 9 worship from #NazGA2023 ?

Amen.

10,000 teenagers in Tampa giving praise to Jesus. ❤️🙏🏽 Beautiful. (Nazarene Youth Conference)

Christianity in the United States doesn’t need more political power. It doesn’t need more authority or influence. It doesn’t need more money or resources Christianity in the United States needs more humility, listening, compassion, and a willingness to share power with others.

Preaching with integrity is not about living something perfectly, but wrestling with something faithfully.

We may feel far from faith, far from the church, or even far from hope. But no one is ever far from God. "...He is not far from any one of us. 'For in him we live and move and have our being." Acts 7:27-28

charchristian.wixsite.com/christian-refl… Seminary students and professors can especially relate... but it applies to all of us....

Wrestling is a theological virtue. Like Jacob, we may be overtaken by something we didn’t see coming, refuse to let go, and meet God among the strife. We may walk away with a limp, the sign of one who has not given up on wrestling with difficult questions and situations.

The shift from expecting the culture to serve the church toward the church seeking to serve a groaning creation is a revolution in mission.

Building Nests in God’s House Psalm 84 has the striking image of birds nesting in the temple of God: “Even the sparrow finds a home, and the swallow a nest for herself, where she may lay her young, at your altars, O Lord of hosts, my King and my God” (v. 3). In this holiest

There is truth in this post. I testify from experience.

John 3:16 says “God so loved the world.” Not “God so loved just Christians.” Or “God so loved just America.” It says “for God so loved the world.” It’s really easy to make God’s love exclusionary. But it’s the way of Jesus to embody a love that can embrace the whole world.

How far have I to go to find you in whom I have already arrived! – Thomas Merton One of my favorite Merton quotes. In Christ we have already arrived & we are continually on the journey towards him.

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Sometimes I wonder⁣ if Mary breastfed Jesus.⁣ if she cried out when he bit her⁣ or if she sobbed when he would not latch.⁣ and sometimes I wonder⁣ if this is all too vulgar⁣ to ask in a church⁣ full of men⁣ without milk stains on their shirts⁣ or coconut oil on their

You know what the problem with the church is? Women. There's just too many of them. It just feels so feminine. When they do things wrong, let's say that that's why they shouldn't do things, and when they do things right, let's say they're doing it TOO WELL and intimidating the