Efficient Church

Efficient Church · 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.

Efficient Church · 8 min read

"Do you believe this?" This is the question Jesus asks Martha at the tomb of her brother Lazarus.

Efficient Church · 6 min read

There are weeks when you arrive at Sunday exhausted. A summons, a doctor's appointment, a bill, a conversation that went wrong.

Mission Évangélique Internationale (MEISTAD) · 6 min read

There are wounds that no one sees. Humiliating words swallowed in silence. Cold looks in your own home, at work, sometimes even within your Christian family.

Mission Évangélique Internationale (MEISTAD) · 7 min read

Elder Jean Michel Musungayi opens this service on November 30, 2025 with a simple conviction: with Jesus, there is always a way back.

福岡アガペ教会 · 8 min read

What are your weaknesses? Your flaws, your hang-ups, the things you'd rather hide from others?

Efficient Church · 7 min read

A new series is opening up for you: Waymaker, about those who open the way. But before talking about opening a path for others, there is one step that no shortcut can replace: knowing.

Efficient Church · 5 min read

You may know this rare word: ultracrepidarian. It describes someone who talks endlessly about a subject he doesn't really know. A true waymaker, one who opens the way, is not like that. Before he speaks, he knows.