A recent research project has highlighted concerns about the effective quality of Christian faith in the United States of America. It revealed a highly privatized and personalized faith with limited public impact and relatively low confidence in salvation. Back to the Bible recommends that churches worldwide learn from the American data and make an urgent shift from activity metrics to transformation outcomes to assess the impact of our faith in the world.
Five years into my ministry, a friend of mine told me he was going to do a series called “Encore,” in which he preached all his greatest hits from his first five years of ministry.
CARTERSVILLE, Ga. – Lottie Moon was in a worship service at what’s now First Baptist Church when she heard God's call to missions, prompting her to leave Cartersville for China 150 years ago.
States such as Minnesota and South Dakota are offering suicide prevention training to clergy – a crucial, trusted presence in rural America. In the farmland, churches remain essential social gathering points.
Bestselling author Rebekah Lyons is dedicated to empowering Christians in cultivating mental resilience, a skill she believes has been lost in modern culture, as evidenced in the aftermath of the ...
One of my favorite books is the narrative nonfiction story Boys in the Boat written by Daniel James Brown. I first read it several years after a recommendation from a friend. I know almost nothing about crew, a sport that has never piqued my interest. Yet Brown’s beautiful storytelling and…
A judge in Georgia has decided that 185 congregations should be allowed to vote on whether to leave the United Methodist Church, ruling against a regional body s recent attempt to put a stop to ...
Tim Keller s family has asked for continued prayers for the pastor and bestselling author as he recently returned to the hospital amid his ongoing battle with pancreatic cancer
In a significant disciplinary action, the Nashville Presbytery, a regional governing body for the Presbyterian Church in America PCA , has indefinitely suspended Scott Sauls, the senior pastor of ...
