What do you think after seeing this?

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/22425001/vp/23338456#23338456

MORE LINKS ON THIS STORY:

http://pewforum.org/about/inthenews/

http://news.aol.com/story/_a/survey-finds-religious-landscape-in-flux/20080225170509990001

http://www.usatoday.com/news/religion/2008-02-25-survey_N.htm

http://neilwestbrook.wordpress.com/2008/02/27/big-news-about-faith-in-america/

Do you know someone who isn’t saved?

Better yet, do you know of a people group that hasn’t even been engaged with the Gospel?

This will be the first of many videos and posts that will be related to the church considering the important task of reaching every tribe and language and people and nation, fulfilling the declaration in Revelation 5:9:

“…with your blood you purchased men for God
from every tribe and language and people and nation.”

How are you currently reaching these 4 groups?

More Links on Jim Caviezel and The Passion of The Christ

The Passion of the Christ

Jim Cavieze’s Website

Al Mohler and R.C. Sprohl on “Seeker Sensitive Movement”:

John Piper on “Is God Better than Sex”:

Mark Driscoll on “The Emerging Church”:

If any of the 100 million people that watched the Super Bowl are out there, you know about “The Play” in the last minute of the Super Bowl, where Eli Manning eluded tacklers and threw a long pass to a covered David Tyree. Tyree somehow caught the ball behind his head as Rodney Harrison tried to push it out of his hands. This led to the Giants win, and the catch is now considered one of the greatest in Super Bowl History.

What’s even more fantastic than the catch is that David Tyree gives the credit to God for his catch and mentions the Power of Jesus Christ that transformed his life from drugs and alcohol. I also learned from Charisma Magazine that someone had prophecied to David Tyree about the catch below:

“Daniels told Tyree that the Lord would “quicken” his feet and give him “hind’s feet” which she later explained to him were like the feet of a kangaroo. She also told him that he would have “spiritual glue” on his hands and would make “the big play.” Daniels’ husband prophesied that the sports world would no longer know him as just a special teams player but as, “David Tyree, the receiver.””

Check out the video of David Tyree on Jim Rome and ESPN last week, in addition to Eli Manning’s reaction to the catch. David Tyree credits God for both the play and catch and mentions Christ changing his life (at 5 min into the first video with Jim Rome).

I believe in the power of God and I hope this encourages you to see that God is Alive today and working in big and small ways. See for yourself…

David Tyree on Jim Rome
 

Tyree Reflects on His Super Bowl Performance

Eli Manning talks about the catch David Tyree made here:

I have to share a cool video blog I found from Francis Chan. He recorded some behind the scenes interviews with Chris Tomlin and Matt Redman that are just priceless.

I was hoping that Francis would have a section on his blog where people could leave comments, but for some reason he has disabled this feature. Francis, if you are reading this, we would love to be able to interact with you on your blog and leave comments!!!! Please enable comments!

Anyway, here is Mr. Chan’s video blog:
http://www.francischansblog.blogspot.com/

Francis Chan Message:
http://intheclearing.blogspot.com/2008/02/message-monday.html

Children of the Night looks at the serious issue of human trafficking that occurs around the world. Take a look at the short video here:
http://current.com/items/88816505_children_of_the_night

As followers of Jesus, we should take this very seriously…Jesus’ heart was to set captives free and if our heart does not break for these children and young people in sex slavery, we need to reexamine if our hearts are surrendered to Jesus as Lord.

FAITH in Jesus without works is DEAD.

What are you doing to help with the sex slavery and human trafficking issue? How could we do more to bring Jesus’ light into the darkness?

A group of 138 Muslim Clerics originally wrote back in October “A Common Word Between Us and You” to foster conversation between Christian and Muslims about “Loving God and Loving People”. In Response to this document, over 300 Christian Scholars, Pastors, Missions Leaders, and Organizations published their own document through the Yale Center for Faith and Culture to outline some of this Common Ground. These names include:

Bill Hybels, Tony Jones, Brian McLaren, Joseph Cumming, Robert Schuller, John Stott, Rick Warren, and Fuller Theological Seminary, to name a few.

John Piper Response to Christian Document

A few months after this original document, “A Common Word Between Us and You”, John Piper has released a video response to this Christian document on his Blog, DesiringGod.org/Blog, expressing both disappointment and surprise over it:

“I just want to register publicly a disappointment with this document, in fact a profound disappointment with the way that it is worded and surprised that some of the people that signed it, some of my friends who signed it, who i would have thought would be more careful in what they lend their support to because what’s missing from this document is a clear statement about what Christianity really is and how we could come together to talk with muslims from our unique, distinctive, biblical standpoint.” - John Piper, DesiringGod.org

More Links about “A Common Word Between Us and You”

MUSLIM Introduction to “A Common Word Between Us and You”:
http://Acommonword.com

CHRISTIAN Response to “A Common Word Between Us and You”: http://www.yale.edu/faith/abou-commonword.htm
http://www.acommonword.com/lib/downloads/fullpageadbold18.pdf

JOHN PIPER Video Blog Response to Christian Response:
http://www.desiringgod.org/Blog/1032_a_common_word_between_us/

JUSTIN TAYLOR Blog Response to John Piper Video:
http://theologica.blogspot.com/2008/01/piper-on-common-word-and-response.html

ISLAMIC MAGAZINE Article about “A Common Word…”:
http://www.islamicamagazine.com/Common-Word/A-Common-Word.html

CHRISTIANITY TODAY Response to “A Common Word…”:
http://www.christianitytoday.com/ct/2007/octoberweb-only/143-42.0.html

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