Your Pastor Cares When You Don’t Care
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Pastor Tavner Smith announces time off to spend 'with God' after staffers quit over affair rumors
Weeks after a video surfaced online allegedly showing him kissing a woman who is not his wife and multiple members of his staff quit, Pastor Tavner Smith of Venue Church in Chattanooga, Tennessee, has announced he will take a few weeks off work to get counseling and “spend time with God.”
Austria’s Catholic Church reports decline in membership, rise in income
A total of 72,055 people formally left the Church in Austria in 2021.
Promise Keepers leader denounces porn use: 'God didn't create you to be that way'
The leader of the men’s ministry organization Promise Keepers recently denounced the usage of pornography, stating that “God didn’t create you to be that way.”
Midwest leaders to convene in Illinois | Baptist Press
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (BP) – More than 1,000 leaders from SBC churches in the Midwest are registered for a leadership gathering in Illinois next week. The Midwest Leadership Summit convenes in Springfield Jan. 18-20, bringing together representatives from 12 states and nine Baptist state conventions.
FIRST-PERSON: Grateful for my Baptist brothers and sisters | Baptist Press
WAKE FOREST, N.C. (BP) – God called me into full-time Christian service on a mission trip in 1977. Our church in Forest Park, Ga., had commissioned a team to travel to Sells, Ariz., in partnership with our Home Mission Board (HMB), now the North American Mission Board (NAMB), to do…
Less than 10% of evangelicals want shorter sermons; 30% want more depth in preaching: survey
Fewer than 10% of evangelical Protestants want to have shorter sermons during worship, while nearly a third want more in-depth teaching, according to recently released survey data.
The Presbyterian Church adds ‘Per Capita Sunday’ to official calendar to explain funding system
The Presbyterian Church (USA) has added an observance called “Per Capita Sunday” to its calendar in the hopes of helping to foster among congregations a better understanding of its system of funding.
Pope Francis speaks out against cancel culture
The Pope has warned against cancel culture and attempts to deny or re-write history through a modern lens.
Andy Stanley says shutting down 'the excuse factory' essential to living God-glorifying life
Andy Stanley, the pastor of North Point Ministries, urged Christians to stop making excuses, explaining that many professing believers construct a paper wall— often fueled by fear or insecurity — that holds them back from living a God-glorifying life.
