Efficient Church · 9 min read
Prepare your church's New Year's Eve service: an order of service with timings, 14 texts to read into the microphone, Bible readings and advice for organizing the evening.
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Prepare your church's New Year's Eve service: an order of service with timings, 14 texts to read into the microphone, Bible readings and advice for organizing the evening.
Efficient Church · 9 min read
Epiphany, celebrated on January 6, honors Jesus made manifest to the nations. What Matthew 2 says about the wise men, what comes from tradition, and what their visit teaches you.
Efficient Church · 7 min read
17 Christian Mother's Day messages for Japan: to your mom, mother-in-law or grandmother, the mothers of the church, with carnation cards and four verses.
Efficient Church · 6 min read
Christian wedding anniversary messages for parents or grandparents, from children and grandchildren: cards, toasts and short texts, with Bible verses to add.
Efficient Church · 9 min read
20 Bible verses for a church anniversary in the World English Bible: God's faithfulness through the years, one body in Christ, life together and thanks.
Efficient Church · 6 min read
Christian Thanksgiving messages and wishes for family, friends, church and coworkers: short texts, cards and longer notes, with four Bible verses on gratitude.
Efficient Church · 6 min read
Christian Easter wishes and He is risen greetings for family, church, coworkers and neighbors: short texts, cards and longer notes, with four Bible verses.
Efficient Church · 6 min read
Church anniversary messages from members, the pastor or a sister church: cards, program notes and short texts, with four verses on God's faithfulness.
Efficient Church · 9 min read
20 Bible verses for Thanksgiving in the World English Bible: thanks in everything, thanks for daily bread and the harvest, and readings for the holiday table.
Efficient Church · 8 min read
20 Bible verses on God's goodness in the World English Bible: a good God, a goodness that follows you, revealed in Jesus, present every day.
Efficient Church · 6 min read
A guide for the service leader: a typical order of worship, choosing classic and modern songs, Nativity readings and a welcome for visitors who only come at Christmas.
Efficient Church · 6 min read
Fifteen short prayers to read aloud for the Christmas Eve meal, Christmas morning, the family gathered together, people who are alone or grieving, and for the world.
Efficient Church · 5 min read
Fifteen short prayers for blessing a meal: with family, with children, with guests or at a festive table, to read as they are or adapt.
Efficient Church · 7 min read
Fifteen opening prayers to read at the microphone: Sunday worship, praise, youth, prayer meeting, with four scripture verses and tips for daring to pray.
Efficient Church · 5 min read
Praise celebrates what God does, worship focuses on who he is. Discover the meaning of the biblical words, key passages, and how to live out both.
Efficient Church · 5 min read
15 Christian thank you messages to copy for a friend, a pastor, a supporter or a gift, with Bible verses on gratitude and tips for writing your own.
Efficient Church · 9 min read
25 Bible verses (World English Bible) on praise and worship: praising God with your whole being, in trial, in the assembly, and into eternity.
Efficient Church · 10 min read
20 Bible verses (World English Bible) for Christmas: prophecies of the birth of Jesus, the announcements to Mary and Joseph, the Nativity story, worship, and the meaning of the incarnation.
Efficient Church · 9 min read
20 Bible verses about gratitude in the World English Bible: thanking God for his blessings, entering his presence with praise, giving thanks in every circumstance and thanking him for Christ.
la Chapelle (Montréal) · 7 min read
Every year, on June 24, all of Quebec celebrates Saint-Jean-Baptiste Day. Fireworks, shows, large gatherings: the celebration has become a national symbol.
Impact Centre Chrétien Montréal · 10 min read
"Go and tell my father about all my glory in this land." This is Joseph's cry to his brothers, once he has revealed himself to them after more than twenty years of silence (Genesis 45:12-15).
Impact Centre Chrétien Montréal · 7 min read
Every new year, you make resolutions. Lose weight, manage your time better, learn a new language. All good things. But if you had to keep only one decision, one obsession, which one would it be?
Impact Centre Chrétien Montréal · 6 min read
For some time now, a revelation has been returning with force in our spiritual family: that of the two major battles we have to fight. The battle for image and the battle for destiny.
Impact Centre Chrétien Montréal · 6 min read
The thanksgiving service marking ICC North America's 10th anniversary was not just a birthday celebration.
Impact Centre Chrétien Montréal · 7 min read
It was the 5th day of fasting and prayer for women, a Friday evening, on the eve of the ICC Montreal women's camp.
Impact Centre Chrétien Montréal · 7 min read
There are mornings when you do not need a teaching. You need a presence.
Impact Centre Chrétien Montréal · 7 min read
Overflow Worship is a worship night organized at ICC Montreal for Passover. Sahra, from the SION ministry, leads the congregation in celebrating the slain Lamb.
Impact Centre Chrétien Montréal · 6 min read
There are evenings when you do not come before God with a light heart. You arrive with a head full of prayer requests, situations weighing on you, mountains that seem to never move.
沼津シオン・キリスト教会 · 6 min read
There are hymns that are not just hymns. There are songs that become, in the middle of a dark night, the hand of Jesus holding you.
浜寺聖書教会 · 15 min read
How can a Christian practically live as a priest of the King, once he has understood that he is called to offer himself as a living sacrifice?
沼津シオン・キリスト教会 · 5 min read
This Sunday, August 23, 2026, Numazu Church received two moving testimonies (Nozawa Masashi from Yokohama Church on three encounters that shaped his life, and Yamaguchi Mitsuo from Kamata Church on forty ye…
Mission Évangélique Internationale (MEISTAD) · 8 min read
You've known a season when everything flowed naturally. The ravens came morning and evening, the stream flowed, the provision arrived without you having to chase after it. Then one morning, you woke up and the water had stopped flowing.
Mission Évangélique Internationale (MEISTAD) · 6 min read
This Sunday, January 18, 2026, elder Junias Anané continued the exhortation he had begun the previous week around the same theme: "This time, I will praise the Lord."
Efficient Church · 8 min read
In this message given at the start of 2026, Pastor Samuel YEO shifts course partway through, setting aside the topic he had prepared to make room for a conviction the Lord lays on his heart during the service: to speak…
東京キリストの教会 · 6 min read
When you open the letter to the Hebrews, you come across three verses that read like a solemn declaration.
Mission Évangélique Internationale (MEISTAD) · 4 min read
As one year draws to a close, ten lepers stand at a distance from Jesus and cry out for mercy. He gives them a single instruction: "Go and show yourselves to the priests." As they go, they are healed.
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
There are weeks when you arrive at Sunday exhausted. A summons, a doctor's appointment, a bill, a conversation that went wrong.
Rehoboth Italie · 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.
Mission Évangélique Internationale (MEISTAD) · 8 min read
You may be going through a season where everything seems to be working against you. An illness that settles in, a job that falls apart, a family that's shaking, a prayer that remains without any visible answer.
Mission Évangélique Internationale (MEISTAD) · 6 min read
You've probably already noticed how much room money takes up in a life. It occupies your mind, it weighs on your choices, it works its way into your conversations.
Efficient Church · 11 min read
Pastor Samuel YEO opens his message with an obvious point that shakes things up: this year, the Church has taken as its theme "Let Us Rise Up and Build," echoing the words of Nehemiah 2.
Mission Évangélique Internationale (MEISTAD) · 10 min read
This Sunday, elder Jean Michel Musungayi opens the word with a simple and liberating conviction: with Jesus, there is always a way back.
Mission Évangélique Internationale (MEISTAD) · 9 min read
Some years begin with an empty heart. You took stock of 2025 and counted what you lack faster than what you received.
Efficient Church · 12 min read
You'd like to see the glory of God show up in your sphere of influence: your work, your home, your ministry, your projects.
Efficient Church · 11 min read
Elder Junias ANANE preaches here the third part of a series on perspective: where God hides his glory, his deliverance, his power.
Église Évangélique de Pentecôte de Nantes · 11 min read
"In the last days, God says, I will pour out my Spirit on all flesh." The apostle Peter speaks these words on the day of Pentecost, before the crowd gathered in Jerusalem.
浜寺聖書教会 · 9 min read
What is salvation? If someone asked you that question today, what would you say? Many Christians immediately think of a destination: heaven.
Vertical Nantes · 5 min read
There's a line from Godfrey of Bouillon that still gives you chills. When offered the crown of Jerusalem, he refused to wear a crown of gold where Christ had worn a crown of thorns.
Assemblée de Dieu de Nice Ariane · 7 min read
Even before opening his Bible, Alfredo Rinaldini tells a simple story. Before they were married, doctors had told his wife she would never be able to have children. Impossible.
Assemblée de Dieu de Nice Ariane · 6 min read
Praise isn't a 25-minute moment on Sunday morning. It's a state of the heart, day and night, morning and evening, at work, at church, with your friends, and even when you're working out.
Efficient Church · 2 min read
Pastor Giuseppe CIRULLI opens Exodus 33: Moses' two cries in the desert, the presence of God that guarantees everything, and the four-step path to seeing his glory.
Église Réformée Évangélique de Marseille Sud · 13 min read
Jesus calls his followers unworthy servants in Luke 17:7-10: a hard word that actually frees you from pride and points every bit of glory for your service back to God alone.
Église Protestante Évangélique Elim (EPEE) · 10 min read
There is a longing that runs through the whole Bible, from the first garden all the way to the cross: God wants to be close to you. Not from a distance, not through a go-between, not just for some spiritual elite.
Église Saint-Lazare · 17 min read
A Christmas meditation on Isaiah 40: the voice crying in the wilderness, the word that never fails, and the good Shepherd who gave his life to comfort and set you free.
Église Protestante Évangélique Elim (EPEE) · 12 min read
This Sunday at Elim, Pastor Cathy continues the series "Beholding Jesus" in the Gospel of Mark.
Église Protestante Évangélique de Paris Beaugrenelle · 7 min read
Without what could your ministry not go on? If your building were taken from you, if your pastoral team disappeared, if the word "evangelical" came to carry a different weight, what would be left of your church?
Église Protestante Évangélique de Paris Beaugrenelle · 9 min read
You don't transform yourself. As you behold Jesus in his glory, the Spirit changes you from glory to glory, giving his life to become yours and making you able to serve in every part of your life.
Église Protestante Évangélique de Paris Beaugrenelle · 10 min read
How can you keep your heart well oriented toward God? The question sounds simple, but it's decisive.
Église Protestante Évangélique de Paris Beaugrenelle · 8 min read
A friend is sick. His family sends word to Jesus. And Jesus doesn't move. He stays two more days where he is, and by the time he reaches Bethany, Lazarus has been dead four days. The stone is already in place.
Église Protestante Évangélique Calvary Chapel Paris · 8 min read
Before you even open your Bible, stop for a second. What does God feel when he thinks of you? Does he merely tolerate you because it's his job? Does he love you on the surface but not really care deep down?
Église Protestante Évangélique Calvary Chapel Paris · 7 min read
The third part of our series on Ephesians 1, built around the same question: who are you in Christ?
Église Protestante Évangélique Calvary Chapel Paris · 9 min read
The preacher opens with an image. He's just back from Germany, where he taught church history at a Bible institute. As a gift, he was given a tour of Berlin, including the Brandenburg Gate.
Église Évangélique Vie Nouvelle · 11 min read
Open your Bible to the book of Kings. Kevin Goncalves Palheiros takes us from 1 Kings 16:29 through chapter 17 verse 7, where Elijah the Tishbite steps onto the scene.
Efficient Church · 7 min read
Twenty Bible verses on joy, its source in God's presence, its strength in trials, its birth in salvation, its growth as the Spirit's fruit, and its glow in community, each with context and a link to read more.
Église CVV : le Chemin la Vérité et la Vie · 11 min read
Sixth part of the "Our Identity in God" series, this message from Joël shows that you do not tremble when you know who you are, you are both a king and a priest for God.
Église Connexion · 6 min read
One of the most frustrating questions Jason Procopio gets as a pastor is about issues the Bible never explicitly addresses. Someone asks, "Is it right or wrong to do this?" and often the only honest answer is "It depends."
La Porte Ouverte Chrétienne · 6 min read
In this last service of the year, Claude Greder opens Psalm 100 to invite you to look back on 2025 with one intention: to thank God, and to thank Him with joy.
La Porte Ouverte Chrétienne · 9 min read
We often think of light as decoration. But in his Advent-closing message, Benjamin Peterschmitt reminds us: light isn't just beautiful, it's powerful, and that light is Christ himself.