SBC Ethics Committee Names New Candidate for President
Loading the Audio Player... A search committee within the Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission, or ERLC, on Monday announced Evan Lenow was its candidate for the group’s next...
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Pastor warns that Christians often fall into 2 camps when talking about the End Times
A Texas pastor says when it comes to studying the End Times, many Christian fall into one of two camps either they obsess over Revelation and try to predict when the rapture might happen, or they ...
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UMC Conference Rejects 3 Arkansas Churches’ Disaffiliation Requests: ‘Uncharted territory’
A regional body of The United Methodist Church has voted down the disaffiliation requests of three congregations in Arkansas that want to leave the mainline Protestant denomination due to its ...
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Gospel generosity gives rural Kentucky church far-reaching impact | Baptist Press
MORGANTOWN, Kentucky (BP) – It was early in his pastoral ministry, Randy Burns said, that he realized, “I was blessed to recognize there was an undercurrent of generosity here,” at Monticello Baptist Church, which never has averaged more than 75 in Sunday morning worship except in 1991, when it reached…
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249 North Carolina Churches Leave UMC amid Homosexuality Schism
At a special session held last weekend, The United Methodist Church s North Carolina Conference approved the disaffiliation votes of 249 congregations, representing 32 of the regional body s member ...
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Holidays offer special opportunities for love and care | Baptist Press
HOT SPRINGS, Ark. (BP) – John McCallum knows the pain of struggling with grief and loss during the holiday season. But rather than sinking in sorrow, he’s using it to serve others.
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A Once-Dying Church Hopes To Reinvent Itself With Coffee and Kindness
The ongoing decline of organized religion in America has led to an existential crisis for tens of thousands of congregations. Over the past two decades, the median size of a congregation has dropped from 137 people to 65 people. Rather than owning a building that was empty most of the week, Embrace Church is part owner of a thriving third space — filled every day with the sounds of conversation and friendship.
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Megachurch Pastor Still Preaching Despite Claims He Stepped Back from Ministry over Prostitution Arrest
Despite a recent claim by Rock Church International in Virginia Beach that their lead pastor, John Blanchard, voluntarily stepped back as lead pastor and from all his ministerial duties due to a ...
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UMC Pastor Files Complaint against Election of Openly Gay Leader to Bishop Hierarchy
A United Methodist Church pastor has filed a complaint against a regional body s leadership over a recent decision to elect an openly gay bishop, which is in defiance of denominational rules
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Lyft Drivers Spread the Gospel with Ride-Hailing Ministries
One is an ordained pastor in Brooklyn, the other a single mother and children’s book author in New Jersey. Both drive for Lyft. Both share the word of God as roving preachers.
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Connecting college students to the church | Baptist Press
College is a time of change, learning, growth, and constant movement. In many cases, students experience freedom and independence in ways they never had before. It’s a time spent on the go and is arguably the most formative period of a person’s life. Unfortunately, this is when many students disconnect…
