Paul notes, “And though I have the gift of prophecy, and understand all mysteries, and all knowledge; and though I have all faith, so that I could remove mountains, and have not charity, I am nothing” (Scofield, p. 1526). Given the foregoing insights, how might one best frame love...
When we, as Christians, make excuses as to why we cannot volunteer time and or provide the added financial resource, to pursue active evangelism, we miss the opportunity to enrich our communities and actually do far worse by nourishing the very elements that destroy the community of faith in ...
Look down upon me, good and gentle Jesus, while before Your face I humbly kneel and with burning soul, pray and beseech You to fix deep in my heart lively sentiments of faith, hope and charity, true contrition for my sins and a firm purpose of amendment, while I contemplate with great...
3 And though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor, and though I give my body to be burned, and have not charity, it profiteth me nothing (1 Corinthians 13:1-3). Rest in Jesus: The Christian life is not all work. Jesus completed the work of salvation on the cross, and we ...
Kim Ream, a former American Family Insurance agent in Warrensburg, MO, was instrumental in connecting Show-Me with the American Family Insurance Charity, Inc. (AFIC). Thanks to her nomination, Show-Me was selected as the beneficiary of the 2018 AFIC Annual Golf Tournament. The tournament rais...
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Christians should avoid such hoarding of wealth not merely because it is spiritually dangerous, but because it signals a lack of charity. Effective hoarding depends on protecting wealth from others. If we save up wealth for a future that may never come, we can’t use it now to help those ...
During the past half a decade, Fujian Catholic Charity Fund started a drive for donations in the Catholic community to support charity work and disaster relief and the donations totaled over 20 million yuan. The Catholic church in Yunnan offered donations of money and material which were worth mo...
27 However, despite these strong festival associations, the charity ‘seeks to affect the lives of individuals, and to influence the spiritual atmosphere of the region, and those regions to which visitors return afterwards’ (Hills 2023, p. 2), and thus it envisages connections between the ...