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By Michael Brown Originally posted on Charisma News I’ve been saying that 2015 is the year of pushback, and this might be the most significant act of pushing back so far: A group of legal scholars, most of them university professors, have declared that the Supreme Court’s redefinition of marriage this past June 26 is not “the law of […]
“Remember the Prisoners As If Chained With Them” The original article first appeared at ACLJ. September 20. After two months without any physical affection or contact with family, today, American Pastor Saeed Abedini was able to have a visitation by a family member. It is through these visitations that Pastor Saeed expresses the pain and […]
By Frank G. Tunstall A. G. Garr, pastor of a holiness mission in Los Angeles, was the first white man to receive the Pentecostal baptism in the Azusa Street Pentecostal outpouring of 1906-1909. Garr took the message of Pentecost overseas, first to India. From there he went to Hong Kong where he served for a […]
Original Article appeared in Christianity Today By: Jayson Casper, (in the United Arab Emirates) September 11, 2005 Sam Espada led friends in a chorus of “Happy Birthday” for his sombrero-wearing brother at a Mexican restaurant. After dinner, they saw the latest Hollywood blockbuster. The five-story mall could have been anywhere in America, except that every […]
Article Originally posted at Fox News Radio By Todd Starnes There was no halftime show under the Friday night lights at Mississippi’s Brandon High School — the marching band had been benched. The band was ordered off the field because the Christian hymn “How Great Thou Art” was a part of their halftime show […]
Bishop Leon Stewart: “You are writing some good material and pointing people to articles that are helpful to spiritual growth. Keep it up. Kathy Petty, Missionary to Spain: So moved by the article of the missionaries beheaded and crucified, and their testimonies, and what God is doing. We have Syrian friends from the Aleppo area […]
By: David Shibley This article originally appeared on CharismaNews. William Booth, founder of the Salvation Army and a man who dedicated his life to lifting the poor out of sin and poverty, reportedly made this statement: “Most Christian organizations would like to send their workers to Bible college for five years. I would like to […]
By Karl Vaters This article originally appeared on Christianity Today. Many types of churches fulfill the Great Commission without seeing their own numerical growth. “If a church stays small, they must be doing something wrong. It can’t possibly be healthy.” This has been an underlying assumption of many in the church growth movement. (Although it’s […]
David Platt: International Mission Board overspent $210 million over last 6 years. By: Bob Smietana http://www.christianitytoday.com/ct/2015/august-web-only/southern-baptists-will-cut-800-missionaries-imb-david-platt.html August 25, 2015. Two months after promoting plans to send out “limitless” numbers of missionaries, the International Mission Board (IMB) of the Southern Baptist Convention (SBC) faces a financial crisis. IMB president David Platt announced Thursday that the agency needs to cut at […]
http://www.christianitytoday.com/edstetzer/2015/august/life-is-eternal-dont-have-affair.html By Ed Stetzer Aug. 25, 2015. This week, we’ve found it’s not as simple as AshleyMadison.com would like its (former) users to think. “Life is short. Have an affair.” So they say. Get caught. Lose your reputation. Lose your spouse. So they omit. I’ve been told that pastors I know, people in my neighborhood, […]