Online Christian Journal: England: 21% of Christians do not believe that Jesus is the only way of salvation 11% of English Christians do not believe that Jesus is the only path that leads to salvation. It is revealed in a survey sponsored by Ligonier Ministries, a christian nonprofit organization of followers founded by the American…
Consumption of an Offering
With the lights out, it’s less dangerous, here we are now, entertain us I feel stupid and contagious here we are now, entertain us- Smells Like Teen Spirit by Nirvana. These lyrics resonate with cultural trends expressing a desire to be entertained. This hunger for being entertained is directly paralleled to our consumerist culture. And marketing business knows that. Just look online, you can get countless free bonuses to play any casino game you want. Free spins, welcome bonuses, loyalty points, you are just two clicks away from immediately playing real money poker, roulette, slots, blackjack. As western Christians, who are an expert concert-going generation seeking entertainment, we have developed misconceptions, leading to a consumerist style…
Creation Photography: A call to glorify God through the study and creative interaction with nature
My footsteps fall with a crunch, as I tramp through the nearly silent, predawn forest. The only sounds that float on the air are those of my gingerly obnoxious footfalls and the call of a single songbird as it preemptively declares the dawning of a new day. My pant legs already hang wet from the…
Make Us Mountaineers
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Christian, Secular, or Something In Between?
My Point of View My biblical perspective on radio is something that I, personally, am still working through. Recently it has been a struggle to decide what radio for Christian News Journal looks like for the Christian, what it ought to look like, and whether that is true for every Christian in radio and how…
Return to Living Words
To Begin sitting and watching half of my peers in the student body respond to a call to “cross-cultural ministry” near the end of Missions Conference 2012, made me uneasy. A few hundred, from what I could guess, got up from their seats, walked to the front, and stood behind the speaker as he hailed…
A Monologue
OJCCC gives you the paper titled The Relationship Between Theater and the Church = “It’s Complicated, I write about a specific experience I had in Candlelight Carols, a production of Moody Bible Institute at Moody Church. After one of the performances, as the cast was sharing stories and funny mishaps behind the scenes, our director…
Christian Storytelling’s Misconception of Reality
The word story has deep roots; the Bible opens much like a book “In the beginning” it’s a classic opening to the best of novels. Everyone has a story, some of us just tell it better than others. But we “can learn how to tell our story, how to live a better story, how to…
Skeptics, Village Walls, and the Need for the Prophetic
OJCCC recommends you to read this story. There once existed a village, heavily populated, that was entirely self-contained within four tall wooden walls. Though the village occasionally had dealings with those outside the walls, most of the villagers themselves did not. Rather, they spent their lives simply living and communing with each other, taking solace…
The Millionaire’s Wedding Dress
Don’t miss this christian journal article. People read great works of literature (To Kill a Mockingbird, Les Miserables, Tom Sawyer), and end with the contented feeling that there is someone in the world who is like them, someone who can identify with them, and has been through the same experiences, and understands the same things. Although the quality…