Efficient Church

神戸キリスト栄光教会 · 8 min read

Why give? Why devote your time, your money, your strength to God and to others? In this message preached at Christ Glory Church in Kobe, Pastor Susumu Kitayama invites you to see giving in a whole new light.

Rehoboth Italie · 5 min read

The church is the one place in the world where you can truly be yourself, with no mask, no pretending. A place where what is imperfect does not matter, because the sinner there is fully forgiven.

Mission Évangélique Internationale (MEISTAD) · 7 min read

There are seasons in your life when the source you'd grown used to starts to run low. The stream that once flowed effortlessly ends up drying out. That isn't always a sign that God is abandoning you.

Efficient Church · 6 min read

In John 8:12, Jesus makes a statement that echoes across the centuries: I am the light of the world; whoever follows me will not walk in darkness, but will have the light of life.

Efficient Church · 7 min read

Since childhood, one sentence has followed me: "You talk too much." It didn't come from my parents or my teachers, but often from the adults at Sunday school.

沼津シオン・キリスト教会 · 6 min read

There are days when words fail us. A loved one passes away, a trial settles in, a prayer seems to go unanswered, and we find ourselves, like a child, no longer knowing what to do with our cry.

沼津シオン・キリスト教会 · 9 min read

"The LORD appointed a great fish to swallow up Jonah, and Jonah was in the belly of the fish three days and three nights" (Jonah 1:17).

沼津シオン・キリスト教会 · 9 min read

There are Bible characters whose story we've known since Sunday school: Jonah is one of them.

Efficient Church · 13 min read

What is the record for the longest distance ever run without sleeping? The answer is about 563 kilometers. In 2005, a man named Dean Karnazes ran for more than 80 hours, three days and three nights without closing his eyes.

Efficient Church · 11 min read

Pastor Sakurai opened this third session of the 2026 devotion gathering by recounting his time in Okinawa before coming.

Efficient Church · 7 min read

There are mornings when your "today" weighs too heavy. A situation that isn't moving, a child drifting away, a marriage growing cold, a project that's stalled.

Efficient Church · 6 min read

The last Sunday of the year. A full year behind you, with its joys, its unexpected hospital stays, its losses, its weariness, its returns to church after months away.