Compassion International, David C Cook, and Integrity Music Release FAITHFUL Project
Christian authors and artists tell the story of God s faithfulness in and through the women of the Bible
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FAITHFUL project – helmed by the ministries of Compassion International, David C Cook, and Integrity Music.
Coming to life in the winter before the pandemic, a group of well-known and respected authors and songwriters gathered as a community to write and share songs. Their work came to be known as
FAITHFUL, songs and stories of God s kindness to women throughout history and here with us today.
Blue Sunday s about biblical stewardship
Friday, April 23, 2021 |
Charlie Butts (OneNewsNow.com)
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America s pastors are being asked to preach and teach this Sunday on an unresolved problem that haunts the country, including her churches.
Jeff Dalrymple, who heads the Evangelical Council for Abuse Prevention (ECAP), says this weekend is Blue Sunday, when churches are asked to address the subject of child abuse. This is specifically for churches, for pastors, and other ministry leaders to raise awareness with … abuse, he continues. Let s inform and educate people to what abuse is, in addition to the staggering statistics. So [it s] about awareness, and education [is] really at the heart of Blue Sunday.
Giving to the Church of God in Christ (COGIC) fell by nearly 50 percent during the COVID-19 pandemic. The church’s new presiding bishop, who took office on March 20, said he will have to make finances a top priority his first year.
J. Drew Sheard Sr. has a full agenda for the 8.8-million member global church, which is the fifth largest denomination in the US. He has to fill vacant leadership roles, wants to develop programs to strengthen marriages and families, and hopes to unify COGIC after an unusually competitive election, with several bishops vying to lead.
But because of the coronavirus, Sheard will have to focus on the budget first.
Christ-centered Nonprofits and Churches Ended 2020 Surprisingly Well
85% said cash giving in 2020 came rather close to 2019 cash giving numbers with a sizable portion of that group saying that 2020’s cash giving ended higher than 2019’s. Dr. Warren Bird Image: Canva
The pandemic’s much-feared financial toll on churches and nonprofit ministries failed to materialize in 2020. That’s the verdict from a survey of 1,292 members and friends of ECFA (the Evangelical Council for Financial Accountability) published March 4 in a 12-page illustration-rich report titled “Remarkable Resilience.”
Every three months since the nation’s coronavirus-driven financial upheavals began last spring, ECFA has polled its membership, plus other likeminded churches and nonprofits. After an initial dip in charitable giving, donations rose and held somewhat steady in the summer and fall. Donor fatigue apparently did not set in even across the end-of-year’s final appeals.
For decades, John MacArthur has railed on prosperity preachers, likening them to “greed mongerers” who led First Century cults.
Recently, he’s also taken aim at scandal-plagued evangelical leaders, like the late apologist Ravi Zacharias and former Hillsong Pastor Carl Lentz, saying these celebrities were in ministry only for the money. That’s why “liars and frauds and false teachers” are in business, MacArthur said in a recent sermon. “False teachers always do it for the same reason filthy lucre, money.”
Yet according to financial statements and tax forms obtained by
The Roys Report, John MacArthur and his family preside over a religious media and educational empire that has over $130 million in assets and generates more than $70 million a year in tax-free revenue.