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NC Church Leaders Have Been Asked To Preach Marriage Themed Sermons To Support NC Gay Marriage Ban

Melissa Wade — Mon, 30 Apr 2012 15:56:39 +0000

The group Vote For Marriage NC is looking to get a big push from churches in support of their ban against gay marriages.

The group is asking church leaders and Pastors to preach a marriage themed sermon and encourage their congregation to vote today on banning gay marriage.

NC already outlaws gay marriage, but adding the ban would make it harder to change it in the future.

Fred Hammond Listening Party

Courtney M. — Mon, 23 Jan 2012 14:00:31 +0000

Multi-award winning gospel recording artist and producer Fred Hammond was in town to promote his new project God, Love and Romance. While in Raleigh, he hosted a Listening Party at Abundant Life Christian Center. During the Listening Party, Fred Hammond went into detail about the message behind each song from his upcoming album. He spoke candidly about learning from his past marriage, being radical and maintaining the love in relationships.

God, Love and Romance is set to be released January 31, 2012. You can follow Fred Hammond on Twitter @realfredhammond.

The Light 103.9 has exclusive footage from the event. Check it out here!

Fred Hammond Listening Party

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Raleigh Church’s Neighbors Want A Miracle

Sha'Linda Jeanine — Thu, 05 Jan 2012 19:37:33 +0000

Around the 500 block of South Person Street, many buildings still show shingles ripped from the roof, chimneys knocked apart, blue tarpaulin stretched across the damage. Raleigh’s tornado tore through here in April, and among the broken buildings in its wake, it left Gethsemane Seventh-Day Adventist Church – a neighborhood landmark dating to 1920.The white concrete-block church owns a pair of distinctions: It’s one of the first black SDA churches in North Carolina, and it’s built in an offbeat, stucco style with smaller rocks hand-pressed onto each block.

5 Year Old Delivers Unforgettable Prayer

Jerry Smith — Sun, 18 Dec 2011 22:07:27 +0000

Matthew 21:16: And said unto him, Hearest thou what these say? And Jesus saith unto them, Yea; have ye never read, Out of the mouth of babes and sucklings thou hast perfected praise?

Watch the following video, as a 5 year old prays an unforgettable prayer, at Potter’s House – Bishop Jake

What is your favorite scripture, prayer or affirmation? Let us know in the comment section below.

Sending positive and prosperous vibes to Elev8 – Robin Downes

Parents Prayer For Protection

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The Serenity Prayer

10 Tips To Focus On The Good

3 Tips For Spiritual Gifts

YOGA FLAVA VIDEO: Enjoy This Guided Meditation To Bliss

Pastor Zachary Tims Church Is In Search Of A New Pastor

Melissa Wade — Thu, 27 Oct 2011 17:06:45 +0000

According to the Christian Post, New Destiny Christian Center, revealed on Friday one of the requirements needed for applicants looking to take over the senior pastoral role the charismatic preacher left vacant when he died in August.

Minister Samuel Anderson, an executive administrator of the church, told The Christian Post Friday that NDCC is seeking “a pastor that is part of a husband and wife team,” that would be committed to each other as they commit to the message and growth of the Apopka, Fla., megachurch.

NDCC was the vision of Pastors Zachery and Riva Tims, after hard work and great dedication, built a ministry that would eventually grow to a membership of 7,500 in just ten years.

The Tims, who share four children, divorced in 2009.

Since the death of Pastor Zachery Tims, many members of the church have called for Riva Tims return to take up the mantle of leadership and become pastor of the megachurch.

Church Financial Tax & Law Conference

Melissa Wade — Fri, 14 Oct 2011 19:44:03 +0000

Church members STOP and listen to this interview with Dr. Michael Chitwood. He has vital information for the church in dealings of financial tax and law and information on new rules that churches must comply with.

The Church Financial Tax & Law Conference

Tuesday, October 25, 2011

North Raleigh Hilton

3415 Wake Forest Rd.

Raleigh, NC

Phone: 800.344.0076

Online: WWW.CMTC.ORG

•_ Chitwood_&_Chitwood,_P.C._has_been_working_with_and_representing_churches_and_nonprofit_ministries_

for_over_70_years._

•_ Chitwood_&_Chitwood_is_the_oldest_and_largest_financial_firm_in_the_United_States_that_represents_

churches_and_nonprofit_ministries.

•_ Dr._ Chitwood_has_helped_more_churches,_ministers_and_pastors_than_anyone_doing_church_financial_

tax_and_law._The_thing_that_makes_our_organization_different_is_that_Dr._Chitwood_cares_and_has_a_heart_

for_pastors_and_the_work_of_God.

Find out more about:

1. New rules on love offerings.

2._ Cash_from_the_offering_plate.

3._ What is this new deadline_for_ new_rules_that_churches_must_comply_with?

4._ Who is responsible_for_penalties_if_the_IRS_comes_to_check_your_church_books.

Listen to the interview….

Aretha Franklin Brings Her Gospel Roots To Her Latest CD

Melissa Wade — Tue, 26 Apr 2011 17:05:03 +0000

In the duet “Faithful” with gospel music artist Karen Clark-Sheard, Aretha takes it back to church.

Her newest album “Aretha A Woman Falling Out Of Love”, according to a press release, will be available exclusively at Walmart on May 3rd and available on iTunes and Amazon June 3. The album, is the very first on the legendary artist’s own label, Aretha’s Records, and contains 12 cuts including a bonus track.

Aretha has said : “OK ladies take a good look at the photo of me on this album; this is how you’re supposed to look when you’re a woman falling out of love. Don’t sit by the phone waiting for him to call you, girlfriend; I want you to listen very closely to the lyrics of the songs on this album and you’ll hear a few good tips. Go out and have a ball!” – Love always, Ree Ree

source: elev8.com

Orange County Church Commercial Pulled From Theaters

thelightnc Staff — Wed, 06 Apr 2011 15:48:47 +0000

According to the Christain Examiner, an Orange County Church in California wanted to promote its Easter Services by purshasing advertising time with a local theater. The commercial would run prior to the movie. The theater aggreed and the church paid for the advertisment until the
managers realized that the commercial may be offensive to some some viewers. The theater returned the money to the church. The church decided to run the commercial on U-Tube. The commercial created more that 2,300 hits in just five days.

Small Church Says: No Tax Return; Then No Communion

Melissa Wade — Tue, 22 Mar 2011 16:58:25 +0000

Some members of a small church in Texas says their Pastor denied them communion because they refused to give over their tax returns. Would you give all your tax return to your church if it needed it?

The Pastor, John Goodman, says he did so because the church members wouldn’t support the church financially – like giving toward the new parking lot. He said only a few members donated and called the rest devils.

McNamee/Getty Image – communion

Has Facebook Killed Church?

Truitt O'Neal — Wed, 02 Mar 2011 21:08:11 +0000

In a new book, “How Facebook Killed the Church“, author Richard Beck argues that our new connectivity online is not necessarily a good thing for organized religion. This past week many Pastors met to discuss this very question and book. The domination of facebook in everyone’s world. We all have facebook accounts. Often the first thing we ask someone now when we meet them in the street is in reference to the existence of their facebook account. Mr. Beck asks very engaging questions in his new book. He says it offers a replacement for the important social function that houses of worship have long provided. One reason that “millennials” are leaving, he says, is because the digital world is providing a sense of community that has been an aspect of churches and other communities of faith. Yes, that sounds really really simple. I am sure that there is an ounce of truth in there.

Obviously, religion provides something more important than a sense of community. But isn’t social affiliation a part of it? Isn’t a sense of community part of the institutional strength of our places of faith? The real question is the broader digital world providing something our places of faith once did – a center of social networking? Is that a problem? And if so, what do we do about it? How do we reach the disconnected.

There have been many issues discussed about the life of the church. We wrote a story not long ago here: Black Churches Unite To Become More Relevant In Their Communities

In the beginning of history religion had the monopoly in offering a sense of community, where people gathered to hear stories of the prophets and God, of evil and good as that was an affordable communal entertainment in those days.

Fast forward to 21st century; Religion gets relegated to the weekend activity and as Richard Beck argues in “How Facebook Killed the Church,” religion further loses its traditional share in capturing the congregants to an alternate source of satisfaction; the facebook. There is an element in all of us that seeks freedom through alternatives. Questions about Religion that people were afraid to ask, and expression of dissension cannot be easier than at facebook, indeed no one will be called on the carpet. It is also increasing one’s ability to interact with each other and a new language of refinement is emerging and new communities are forming based on shared interests.

The truth of the fact is that Facebook allows for real evangelization that we as faith believers often negelct or forget about. I think that is the real hot topic of 2011. How do we use this tool that has swept the nation and redefined our borders, physically and spiritually. W hat do you think?
Where do you stand on this issue?

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