As North Texas prepares to host nearly 4 million fans next month for the World Cup, churches in the Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex are gearing up to reach them for Christ
Central Baptist Church's mission, rather than location, is reflected in it name. From Warner Robins, Ga., Central Baptist reaches the nations in its own backyard and abroad through Cooperative Program giving.
Daryl C. Cornett enjoys all the "red, white and blue" of the Fourth of July while also seeing it as an "opportunity for important spiritual perspective and reflection."
North Point Community Church Senior Pastor Andy Stanley recently explained to popular radio host and Messianic Jewish author Michael Brown why Stanley quit using the term the Bible says
Tony Wolfe exhorts young leaders to "pour our lives out" for the Kingdom of God. "If we waste time now, time will waste us later," he writes. "God's Gospel story is passing through our generation right now.
Spiritual maturity, like physical fitness, entails commitment, effort and time, Doug Metzger writes. In striving for spiritual fitness, he notes, "we can expect evidence that God is working in us."
To address the problems plaguing contemporary culture, Hance Dilbeck writes, churches need men and women who are morally, practically and spiritual qualified.
Mission teams can accomplish in one week what it would take a missionary six months to accomplish, Keith Shorter writes. However, they can also tear down and undo what a missionary has taken months or years to build.
Suffering from injuries in a motorcycle accident, gang member Fred Luter was told by Brother Louis Beloney, "You better get your life together, ask God to forgive you and to give you another chance to get it right!"