Results for: "Christian Living"

Christian Calendar (Holidays), Christian Living Articles, December, December Now

This post is part 12 of the series:Christian Living SeriesOften, the Christmas season is the most meaningful time of year—for both the believer and unbeliever. Many fail to use this season of the year to point to Christ as fully as they might to Christianize the world around them. While some attempt to sanctify the carnal and merely sensuous for Christian purposes, the Apostle Paul warns believers to build with materials that are most precious and most enduring (1 Corinthians 3:10-18). For this reason, Christian leaders should look eagerly upon the Christmas season with the intent to redeem...Read more... Read more... -->

Christian Calendar (Holidays), Christian Living Articles, October Articles, October Now

This post is part 10 of the series:Christian Living SeriesBy the time October arrives, many plans for the end-of-the-year activities are well underway or soon will be. No other season of the year provides as much opportunity for creating spiritual impressions upon young and old alike as do the closing months of the year. In contemporary society, Christians must conceive of ways to convey the glory of the gospel to a suspicious and cynical world. Often this task is complicated by the fact that America and other parts of the world are increasingly biblically illiterate and many audiences do...Read more... Read more... -->

Christian Living Articles, September, September Now

This post is part 9 of the series:Christian Living SeriesSeptember offers many exciting opportunities for the expression of Christian living, some of which our readers may seek to employ in their homes, local churches, and where appropriate, in their businesses. Of all that may be anticipated in the expression of our Christian faith in the month of September, renewed interest in Christian education should be a prominent focus. For many of us, careful planning for Thanksgiving and Christmas is delayed too long and hasty efforts produce lackluster results, though grandma and grandpa would...Read more... Read more... -->

August, August Now, Christian Calendar (Holidays), Christian Living Articles, Christian Witness, Social Theology

This post is part 8 of the series:Christian Living SeriesWhereas the “dog days of summer” in the Northern Hemisphere begin in early July, they conclude prior to the end of the second week of August.[1] Fishermen generally regard these days as useless for their sport, and by the early part of August, teachers and pupils once again inhabit most school classrooms. With the beginning of school, summer quickly grinds to a halt.Christian Living in August As is true with every season of the year, much encouragement may be received from a knowledge of the lives of Christians who have...Read more... Read more... -->

Christian Calendar (Holidays), Christian Living Articles, Christian Witness, July, July Articles, July Now, Social Theology

This post is part 7 of the series:Christian Living SeriesThroughout the summer months, families are preoccupied with various activities that are often unique to this season of the year. Family vacations, church camp, and other activities provide materials from which family and personal memories are made. For those of us who are privileged to regularly share in a good summer family church camp, meeting with the Lord and cherished friends for a few days of spiritual retreat is eagerly anticipated. Lamentably, too many times the ministry of the local church slows during the summer because the...Read more... Read more... -->