In the United States, where it is most established, many such broadcasters play popular music of Christian influence, though many programs have talk or news programming covering associated topics that can have an economic or a political angle to them.

* Other organisations access to the public system, including the former commercial pirate broadcasters TROS and Veronica and the evangelical Christian EO to diversify programming ;

In response to this challenge, 150 Evangelical Christian broadcasters and church leaders held a series of meetings which led to the formation of the National Religious Broadcasters ( NRB ).

Seven decades later, the Christian multi-media association birthed by these visionary radio broadcasters operates in a far more complex electronic media environment, while retaining its original focus of defending and expanding access to electronic media platforms for the Gospel of Jesus Christ.

And the audience for religious broadcasters has expanded dramatically, with 141 million Americans using Christian media at least once per month.

Attendees typically include Christian radio and television broadcasters, Internet web developers, church media ministries, public relations firms, publishers, broadcast and communications students, and media / broadcast equipment producers and vendors.

NRB encourages its members to assist Christian broadcasters in other parts of the world.

The association ’ s Strategic Partnerships division provides training, mentoring, facilities assistance and programming aid in order to meet the needs of Christian broadcasters around the globe.

Attendees typically include Christian radio and television broadcasters, Internet web developers, church media ministries, new media professionals, public relations firms, publishers, broadcast and communications students, and media / broadcast equipment producers and vendors.

Public moral failures are not unknown in the community of Christian broadcasters, with some occurrences receiving national attention, such as the highly publicized scandals of Jim Bakker and others in the late 1980 ’ s.

The initial programme / station manager, John McNeil, laid the groundwork for what became the network's relaxed talk and music format, in which a limited number of teaching programmes are intermingled with music, news and interviews, to differentiate the station from American Christian broadcasters, which were perceived to be " Bible-bashing " and culturally irrelevant.

The company focuses on acquiring radio stations with powerful transmitters, unlike most Christian broadcasters who tend to purchase many low-power translators.

Salem Communications was founded by Stuart Epperson and Edward Atsinger III and, unlike many Christian broadcasters, is a for-profit corporation.

Christian broadcasters ( but not other religions ) in the U. S. are organized through the National Religious Broadcasters ( NRB ) organization.

Sky Angel offers two programming packages for its IPTV service: the " Sky Angel " package consists of faith-based broadcasters ( including various Christian broadcasters, and accompanying video on demand services ) and the " FAVE TV " package includes general family entertainment, sports, and specialty channels along with a wide selection of faith-based TV and radio channels.

BA's smooth / urban AC format remained for a period of time without local broadcasters on 106. 9's HD Radio HD2 subchannel, which has since been replaced with an HD relay of sister AM station WJYI, which has a Christian / brokered programming format.

Salem Communications, which had formed in the early 1980s by Christian broadcasters Ed Atsinger and Stuart W. Epperson, had first made overtures to purchase WPIT AM / FM from Associated Communications back in the mid-80's, but the station had been sold to Boston-based Pyramid Broadcasting, which operated WPIT AM / FM under the name Kiss Limited Partnership, for a much higher price than what Salem was willing to pay.

I was also publicly reprimanded, dragged through the mud by the radical press and made a figure of fun by such leftist publications as The New Republic, The New Yorker, Time and The Christian Science Monitor.

We shall not make a decisive advance in the ecumenical movement until such a church begins to see itself not merely as a haven of comfort and peace but as a base of Christian witness and mission to the world.

Because Christianity teaches not only salvation in history, but salvation by the history of Christ, such an interpretation of death would require a drastic revision of the Christian understanding of the work of Christ.

The Turkish language and the Islamic religion were gradually introduced as a result of the Seljuk conquest, and this period marks the start of Anatolia's slow transition from predominantly Christian and Indo-European and Semitic-speaking, to predominantly Muslim and Turkish-speaking ( Although some ethnic groups such as Armenians, Greeks, Assyrians and Georgians retained Christianity and their native languages ).

Some religious groups, such as the Association of Christian Schools International, opposed the ADA in its original form.

The need to persuade his nobles to undertake work for the ' common good ' led Alfred and his court scholars to strengthen and deepen the conception of Christian kingship that he had inherited by building upon the legacy of earlier kings such as Offa as well as clerical writers such as Bede, Alcuin and the other luminaries of the Carolingian renaissance.

Some scholars believe that the apologetic view of Luke ’ s work is overemphasized and that it should not be regarded as a “ major aim of the Lucan writings .” While Munck believes that purpose of Luke ’ s work is not that clear-cut and sympathizes with other claims, he believes that Luke ’ s work can function as an apology only in the sense that it “ presents a defense of Christianity and Paul ” and may serve to “ clarify the position of Christianity within Jewry and within the Roman Empire .” Pervo disagrees that Luke ’ s work is an apology and even that it could possibly be addressed to Rome because he believes that “ Luke and Acts speak to insiders, believers in Jesus .” Freedman believes that Luke is writing an apology but that his goal is “ not to defend the Christian movement as such but to defend God ’ s ways in history .”

Opponents of musical instruments in the Christian worship believe that such opposition is supported by the New Testament and Church history.

Grant made her debut as a teenager, and gained fame in Christian music during the 1980s with such hits as " Father's Eyes ", " El Shaddai ", and " Angels ".

By the 2nd century there were also famous Christian ascetics, such as Saint Thecla.

It approved the state's blue law restricting commercial activities on Sunday, noting that while such laws originated to encourage attendance at Christian churches, the contemporary Maryland laws were intended to serve " to provide a uniform day of rest for all citizens " on a secular basis and to promote the secular values of " health, safety, recreation, and general well-being " through a common day of rest.

Bede wrote homilies not only on the major Christian seasons such as Advent, Lent, or Easter, but on other subjects such as anniversaries of significant events.

Bede was familiar with pagan authors such as Virgil, but it was not considered appropriate to teach biblical grammar from such texts, and in De schematibus ... Bede argues for the superiority of Christian texts in understanding Christian literature.

For Bede, Mercia was a traditional enemy of his native Northumbria and he regarded powerful kings such as the pagan Penda as standing in the way of the Christian conversion of the Anglo-Saxons.

These include the appearance of a number of figures and images which have become important in Christian eschatology, such as the Whore of Babylon and the Beast, and culminate in the Second Coming of Jesus Christ.

:" Meanwhile it happened that Swedish ambassadors had come to the Emperor Louis the Pious, and, amongst other matters which they had been ordered to bring to the attention of the emperor, they informed him that there were many belonging to their nation who desired to embrace the Christian religion, and that their king so far favoured this suggestion that lie would permit God's priests to reside there, provided that they might be deemed worthy of such a favour and that the emperor would send them suitable preachers.

The word can also refer to a collection of Christian orders of prayers and readings, such as contained in Anglican or Lutheran resources.

The Calvinist influence remains in that some fundamental Calvinist doctrines such as unconditional predestination and divine providence remains present in much of Boer culture, who see their role in society as abiding by the national laws and accepting calamity and hardship as part of their Christian duty.

The Baptists have been non-creedal “ in that they have not sought to establish binding authoritative confessions of faith on one another .” Also rejecting creeds are groups with roots in the Restoration Movement, such as the Christian Church ( Disciples of Christ ), the Evangelical Christian Church in Canada and the Churches of Christ.

During 1976, Grant wrote her first song (" Mountain Man "), performed in public for the first time — at Harpeth Hall School — the all-girls school she attended, recorded a demo tape for her parents with church youth-leader Brown Bannister, then later when Bannister was dubbing a copy of the tape, Chris Christian, the owner of the recording studio, heard the demo and called Word Records.

" But for the searching and right understanding of the Scriptures there is need of a good life and a pure soul, and for Christian virtue to guide the mind to grasp, so far as human nature can, the truth concerning God the Word.

According to Jewish and Christian traditions, authorship is assigned to the Prophet Jeremiah, who was ministering the Word of God during the conquest of Jerusalem by Nebuchadnezzar, during which the First Temple was destroyed and King Zedekiah was taken prisoner ( cf.

According to one scholar, John portrays Jesus Christ as " a brief manifestation of the eternal Word, whose immortal spirit remains ever-present with the believing Christian.

The later Stoics understood it as " the account which governs everything ," and Hippolytus, in the 3rd century AD, identified it as meaning the Christian Word of God.

The Christian concept of the Christ / Messiah as " the Word made Flesh " ( see also Logos ) is fundamentally different from the Jewish and Islamic.

The Christian record companies include EMI Christian Music Group, Provident Label Group and Word Records.

Recent interfaith initiatives include " A Common Word ", launched in 2007 and focused on bringing Muslim and Christian leaders together, the " C1 World Dialogue ", the " Common Ground " initiative between Islam and Buddhism, and a United Nations sponsored " World Interfaith Harmony Week ".

* Word ( bookstore ), a Christian bookstore chain in Australia

Cox subsequently became a Christian and raised Kyoko in a Christian group known as the Church of the Living Word ( or " the Walk ").

* " The Two Parts of the Word of God: Law & Gospel " from The Christian Faith by Beza

The basic Christian ideal specifies that peace can only come by the Word and love of God, which is perfectly demonstrated in the life of Christ ( see Romans 8: 19-23 ).

Christian world peace necessitates the living of a proactive life replete with all good works in direct light of the Word of God.

In Christianity, the Catholic Church rejects the similar expression " religion of the book " as a description of the Christian faith, preferring the term " religion of the Word of God.

* The 1972 novel by Irving Wallace, The Word concerns archaeological forgery, the finding and translation of a supposed lost gospel by James the Just, close relative of Jesus Christ, as part of a large project to be published as a new Bible that would inspire a Christian revival, but which is possibly a forged document.

Messianic Judaism asserts that Jesus is the Word of God become manifest ( John 1: 1 ; 14 ), a belief that is identical with normative Christian doctrine regarding the nature and identity of the son of God.

This new version of the band released a pair of albums for Word Records: 1992's The Seventy Sevens ( known by the band and fans as Pray Naked, the album's original title which was dropped by the record label without consulting the band due to Christian vendor pressures not to sell an album titled " Pray Naked ") and 1994's critically acclaimed Drowning with Land in Sight.

He wrote that the Christian Scientists understood positive thinking better than any group he knew, and encouraged his readers to subscribe to Unity Church ’ s magazine, Daily Word.

In 1975 Norman recorded In Another Land, the third album in his trilogy, which was released in 1976 through his own Solid Rock label and distributed through Word Records, making it " the first of his albums to be released on a Christian label ".

Until 1980 Solid Rock records would be distributed by Word, giving them a more direct distribution into Christian bookstores.

In a 1982 interview with British Christian musician Norman Miller, then Executive Director of Word Europe, Norman discussed both the original purpose for Solid Rock and its future:

The private Ouachita Hills Academy, associated with the Seventh-day Adventist Church, is still located near Amity on the Clark-Pike County line and Word of Faith Christian Academy is located outside of town between Amity and Alpine.

* Living Word Christian