Ministry Updates

This week 600 Christian radio broadcasters are gathering in Orlando for Christian Music Broadcasting's Momentum Conference.  Are you there?  HCJB Global's Wayne Pederson is, and he just recorded a short reflection on his experience thus far.  Specifically, what it's like to be in Disney's world.  Yes, the place is called Disneyworld -- one word.  But Wayne is referring to the world in which its creator, Walt Disney, imagined -- and then worked it into being! 

Listen to Wayne's 1:00 reflection from the Momentum Conference on going Beyond the Call >>

Wayne asks, What if we had holy ...

Has this ever happened to you?  I was going through my morning round of email sorting and began the usual routine of filtering messages -- I need to do this, I will read this later, I'm replying to this now, etc.  I quickly read an email about Compassion's Blog Month in September and the exciting opportunity to join writers in changing the world for children in poverty.  I should tell so-and-so about this, I thought.  I continued clicking away at my inbox without another thought.  This went on for a few minutes when I realized Someone had been tapping ...

Did you know that Labor Day was actually first established as a national holiday in 1882? Two years later, the first Monday in September was selected as the official "working man's holiday."

Today, most of us anticipate the holiday as summer's "last hooray" - in my family it's always a weekend of camping adventures with my cousins and grandparents.

Over a hundred years ago, working conditions were far different than today. For most Americans and their 8-hour work days in safe environments complete with benefits...it might be hard to remember why some of our forefathers fought so ...

For those of us who exist in a world that is relying more and more upon social media (so, all of us) you know that we just can't replace the value of a face-to-face interaction.

A handwritten card you receive in the mail wishing you a "Happy Birthday" carries a little bit more significance than the post on your Facebook wall with the same message.

A text message saying "I'm sorry" can't convey all of the emotion and feeling a conversation over a cup of coffee can hold.

In this increasingly digital world I think it is ...

When friends and family look at your life, what might they conclude about what it means to be a Christian?  What character qualities reveal you've been transformed? And how can you keep on cultivating those traits throughout your life?

This month on "Grace to You^®" John MacArthur looks at ten spiritual attitudes that every believer should possess ... including humility, joy, faith, compassion, contentment, love.  These pillars of Christian character are vital in creating the ...

That's the ministry focus of FamilyLife -- providing help to people in every stage of life, and no matter what circumstances they find themselves in, giving them the hope only found in Jesus Christ.  This is clearly evident in the subjects "FamilyLife Today" is addressing in September:

• surrending a homosexual lifestyle
• surviving divorce
• Bible learning for kids
• encouraging the broken-hearted
• walking through the empty-nest
• reaching out to the orphan

One broadcast that I'm particularly looking forward to hearing is with Arlene Pellicane, author of "31 Days to a Happy Husband."  She joins Dennis Rainey and Bob Lepine to talk ...