Troy Anderson
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Prophetic Art That Points to Salvation
Imagine Christ’s view from atop the mountain where He preached to the multitudes about the poor in spirit, those who mourn, the meek, the merciful and the pure of heart. As He preached the Sermon on the Mount (Matt. 5-7), Jesus looked down on a sea of faces that hung on His every word because …
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3 Keys to America’s Spiritual Resurrection in 2016
In this year’s presidential election, America’s greatest hope is spiritual resurrection. What St. Augustine prayed in the fifth century should be on the lips of 21st-century Christians: “Revive Thy Church, O Lord, beginning with me,” says David Lane, founder of the American Renewal Project, an organization helping energize pastors to mobilize their congregations to “register …
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How to Participate in ‘Empty Manger’ Caroling Day
Each Christmas since 2003, Eric Scheidler and other members of the Pro-Life Action League have gathered around an empty manger outside several Chicago abortion clinics to sing carols. Ranging in age from 5 to 87, the carolers sing standards such as “Away in a Manger,” “The First Noel,” “O Come All Ye Faithful” and “Silent …
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Is The World Turning Its Back on Israel in Fulfillment of Prophecy?
As the world turns against Israel, Chosen People Ministries President Mitch Glaser is calling on Christians to speak out against the eruption of violence, efforts to weaken the nation’s sovereignty and other disturbing developments in the “apple of His eye.” Glaser’s request comes amid a “wave of terror” in Israel that has left more than …
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Is the End Really Near?
The signs—the last of the four blood moons, the biblical Shemitah, rise of end-time “Babylon,” the Supreme Court decision legalizing same-sex marriage, the dangerous Iranian nuclear deal and a world drowning in debt and dangling on the edge of economic catastrophe—seem unmistakable now. While harbingers of the apocalypse have been gathering for decades, most of …
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JONATHAN CAHN: Grabbing the World’s Attention Through Words
He gave the keynote address at the Presidential Inaugural Prayer Breakfast in 2013. He was recently invited to speak at the United Nations on behalf of persecuted Christians. Now more than 7 million people have viewed his latest speech on Capitol Hill. Born of the Tribe of Levi, the line of Aaron, the priests in …
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RICK WARREN: ‘An Incredible Impact on Our Generation’
He’s the author of The Purpose Driven Life, a book that simultaneously hit No. 1 on the four major best-seller lists when it was released in 2002 and went on to sell more than 32 million copies. It’s listed in “100 Books That Changed the 20th Century.” In 2005, TIME listed him among “The 100 …
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Charisma Wins Two Charlie Awards on its 40th Anniversary
Charisma magazine won six awards at the Florida Magazine Association’s Charlie Awards gala in Orlando this weekend, including two Charlie Awards for Best Overall Writing and Best Cover. Charisma won the Charlie Award for Best Cover for “The Mystery of the Shemitah” issue in October 2014 about Rabbi Jonathan Cahn’s New York Times best-selling book of the same name. …
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Why World Vision Changed Its Mind On Hiring Gays
Jeff Farmer believes in the righteous mission of World Vision. Founded by missionary Bob Pierce in 1950, World Vision today is one of America’s largest Christian charities with 44,000 staff members in nearly 100 countries and an annual income of nearly $1 billion. Dedicated to working with children and their families worldwide to help them …
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5 of the Fastest-Growing Churches You’ve Never Heard Of
Other Christian magazines annually report on the “fastest-growing churches in America.” Churches like New Spring in Anderson, South Carolina; Church of the Highlands in Birmingham, Alabama; Saddleback Church in Lake Forest, California; Gateway Church in Southlake, Texas; and Citylife Church in Tampa, Florida, have all received their just due for packing ’em in every Sunday …
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Where Your Israel Donation Really Goes
At a time when Israel is facing the threat of nuclear annihilation and many believe the world is nearing the midnight hour on God’s prophetic clock, millions of evangelical Christians are rallying to support Israel. Even the Jewish community—long suspicious of conservative, Bible-believing Christians—is beginning to notice. The support comes in many forms, from increased …
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Is Yechiel Eckstein Worth His Weight in Gold?
As the head of a nonprofit that is almost entirely supported by donations, what makes Yechiel Eckstein’s compensation noteworthy is its proportion to his organization’s overall income compared to other ministries. While the salary and benefit package of the head of the International Fellowship of Christians and Jews (ICFJ) is at least five times higher …
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Leader Compensation
How much are those in charge of these Israel-related ministries actually making? It’s often implied that any leader of a nonprofit ministry or organization who earns more than Mother Teresa is somehow gouging the public. Obviously, that isn’t true. Running a large organization—whether a college, a hospital or a church—is complicated and requires hard …
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Behind the Investigation
Given the magnitude and importance of the mission of Israel-related ministries—and in an effort to help promote financial transparency, integrity in fundraising efforts and the proper use of donations—Charisma requested financial information from 17 Israel-related ministries. To begin its seven-month investigation into the financial stewardship of these ministries, Charisma requested financial information from each organization, …
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Professor in The Pulpit
For more than 30 years, Kenneth Ulmer has worn two hats: pastor and academic. But just because he’s stepped down as president of The King’s University doesn’t mean he’s schooling his Los Angeles megachurch any less these days.
Some 25 years ago, three men who would later become pastors of some of the largest churches in Los Angeles gathered with 800 other ministers to pray at First Presbyterian Church of Hollywood.
Pastors Jack Hayford, Lloyd Ogilvie and Kenneth C. Ulmer—all seated “by Providence” along the front row, Ulmer says—prayed for Hollywood and the nation. Bonded in that moment in a “spirit of like-mindedness,” the three have been friends ever since and get together several times a year to pray for one another.
“I think we formed a relationship of not only praying for each other, but being accountable to one another,” says Ulmer, now 64. “There has been no challenge, good or bad—no high point or low point—that we’ve had in the last 25 years that we haven’t gone through together. We have prayed together, cried together, gone through deaths together and been through challenges in our relationships. It’s just been a relationship of three men who love each other and who share life together.”
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