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HEWITT, Texas (BP) -- For Michael Visy, senior pastor of Grace Church Hewitt, connections make the difference. Through a series of divine connections, he has found friendship, encouragement, and accountability via the Southern Baptists of Texas Convention’s Young Pastors Network.
WINTER GARDEN, Fla. (BP) -- First Baptist Church in Winter Garden and Foundation Academy, a private Christian school in Winter Garden, have partnered together to integrate the gospel into every aspect of students’ educational life, resulting in a campus-wide spiritual revival.
I’ll never forget when I returned to the Kansas City area in 2003 after years of planting churches in Canada. I moved from a community that desperately needed new churches to one with quite a few dying churches. It seemed like they were on every corner of inner-city Kansas City.
Evangelist Franklin Graham, the son of legendary evangelist Billy Graham, said in a recent interview that the term Christian nationalism is often used by the media as a tactic to polarize and divide
Survey: Majority-Asian churches are half as likely to have leaders under 30.
KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (BP)—As the police car headed out of an apartment complex and toward Main Street of a small Tennessee town, Pastor Michael Koontz looked out the window at the Halloween decorations in a small house on the corner.
ELKO, Nev. (BP) — An example in contrasts, Nevada is home to the glitz of Las Vegas as well as the loneliest road in America. It appears on lists for both the fastest-growing and least densely populated states. The land has mountains but also vast deserts.
Organizers said the group included Mennonites from at least 40 different churches, as well as interfaith supporters from Catholic, Lutheran, Jewish, evangelical Christian, and Southern Baptist traditions.
Theologian and author John Piper suggested that it can be appropriate for single pastors to date within their congregations, stressing that religious leaders should be transparent in their desires
The church court stripped the Rev. Thomas Jay Oord, of Nampa, Idaho, of his preaching credentials and expelled him from membership in the 2.5 million-member global denomination.
