... the Evangelical United Brethren church in 1968 to form the United Methodist Church. It is the largest Methodist denomination. In United States it ranks as the largest main line church tracing its main roots to the Methodist movement “The Holy Club”. It grew rapidly in the young country as it...

... how to avoid them: 1. Including too many new songs in the set Your congregation is there to worship – most will find it difficult to do so if they spend most of the time learning your latest masterpieces Vary your set list to include a variety of older, recently introduced and brand new...

... living in an imperfect world inside a decaying body of flesh. How victorious is that! But… you have the DNA of a victor! You may not feel like a winner because you’re subject to emotions, and they are controlled by the soul. First and foremost, though, you are spirit, infused by the Holy...

... was really dead. They prayed, sent messages and waited for Jesus to come heal him but by the time he got there, Lazarus was four days dead leaving two grieving sisters and a big crowd of mourners had gathered at their home.This is a typical Christian setting where people pray and hope...

... media and society. Miami Herald columnist Leonard Pitts is one of those stalwarts who deserves all the accolades that have come his way during his illustrious career. However, as an African American who considers himself a Christian first and foremost, it sometimes irks me to read...

... everyone – is that not so? In the hustle and bustle of your daily life and the hurry that everybody seems to be in, you may not have given this much thought. I know that I was not concerned about it for many years until something happened that changed my outlook (hint – I am a Christian). It is...

... at spirituality with an entirely different perspective and correlate it to Science. Spirituality is simply a science, just like physics, that was built to answer questions. Some questions have been asked innumerable times since the beginning of time and perhaps at every tick of the clock a few...

... global data locally into small known quantifiable pieces allows our minds to logically sequence this information and form relationships between them. But, what of the extreme outliers which lie beyond our ability to reason out logically? They fall into the human constructs of organized religion,...

... Lanka, Thailand and Burma) Buddhism just recognises Sakyamuni (and perhaps Maitreya and a few others) and so Amoghashiddi will be referred to as Sakyamuni (or Shakyamuni) with hands in Abhaya Mudra, etc., rather than Amoghashiddhi. Buddhism in Nepal has a tendency to mix and recognise both...

... God. Myrrh- Myrrh is mentioned several times throughout the Bible. It was presented to the baby Jesus at his birth. It was also offered to him before his death, and used to prepare his body for burial. Myrrh was also mentioned in the book of Esther. Esther used oil to prepare herself for her...

... of oil burners and vaporizers available. They range from simple inexpensive pieces to exquisite pieces of workmanship, but they all operate in the same way. The oil burner is comprised of a reservoir and a heat source. The reservoir is filled with water and drops of the essential oil. The heat...

... it takes. Guess what? The producers have carefully chosen the contestants based on their happy enthusiastic attitude. They do not want a dull lackluster person on stage. God is the greatest producer in the universe and when you pray you must come to him with the same enthusiasm you would have...

... from his close involvement in our everyday lives and from the mythological tales about him and his family. The legends about Ganesha depict him as a devoted son and a loving brother. There's no Hindu grandmother who doesn't love narrating the story of Ganesha's parentage and birth. Many...

... were thinking before you ever made an action or said anything. The reason is quite simple, they are true psychics. Have you ever sat in front of your door in anticipation of the arrival of someone you love fifteen minutes before they arrive? Have you ever found yourself in unknown territory...

... a Clairvoyant/Psychic reader will sit around all day working for nothing! Would you? •Of course not, there has to be a catch – and believe me there is! Want to find out more? Someone is trying to snare you into their net and, by advertising free psychic readings, many are enticed to...

... try to appear to us. Sometimes they will come to us and project a smell that will remind us of them. Other times we will be sitting quietly or perhaps taking a walk we once enjoyed together, and we will intuitively know they are there with us. They also work through electricity - turning TVs...

... very easy to be spiritual when you have an abundance of money in your bank account and you don’t have to worry about buying the necessities. It’s a lot harder to focus on spirituality when you are working sixteen hours a day just to be able to buy groceries for the week, pay the...

... people watch "R" rated movies on occasion and even have their kids watch with them? Didn't the other women of the church watch the "soaps" on T.V.? We even talked of them before and after church. Most of the time we talked about the soaps more then the sermon or the latest Bible study. One...

... As I watched them I noticed they were going under my walls. We had been remodeling so I didn't have any baseboards on yet so the dry wall was not quite to the floor. The moths were going in and out under the wall. I thought it strange and decided maybe I should keep a watch on what these...

... the kids at a very young age. Also, the animated Bible series are presented in such an engaging manner that the kids are sure to watch those over and over again. The DVDs and CDs are designed in a manner that is sure to strike a chord with the kids. The animated stories are full of colors and...

... first time I saw this happen during a church service I wondered what they were doing. It seemed rather odd. What was this bit with taking a bottle of oil and smearing it all over the person’s forehead? I even saw once where they poured the whole bottle over the person’s head. Oh, I would...

... the Christian church missed something? What was the truth? Who was right? I decided to find out. In my search the first thing I did was go to a Bible computer program and put in the word “incense”. I was amazed to see there were 132 references in the scriptures to incense. As I glanced over...

... could help her. I told her about the study I had been doing in the use of Biblical Anointing Oils for breaking bondages and the wonderful miracles we were seeing - her voice lifted. I told her about using anointing oil to anoint small pieces of cloth as we prayed over them asking God for...

... bear it out over and over again--but it can be summed up most simply in this way:   Soren Kierkegaard wrote, “Purity of heart is to will one thing.”     If we are only allowed one expression of our lives, it must be the adoration of God.  To see God in His fullest glory would leave us in...

... wrong and correct our wrongs. In this way we can get closer to God by purifying ourselves. We need to find out what God's will is for us. It will bring about our true identity. As long as we live outside of His will, we will always be living in our false self, the way of the world and we...