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
New England layman David Holland's turn to Christ began with a carpet-cleaning job, a pesky stain and a pastor's comment, "You know that stain you keep trying to get, we have them in our heart too. Sometimes when we try to get rid of them we can't. But Jesus can."
Shane Pruitt, director of missions for the Southern Baptists of Texas Convention, examines such questions about church planters as: Who is this kind of person that in the process of church planting often leaves a steady salary and an established ministry for the complete unknown? Is he brave or is he naïve enough to try it?
Brian McLaren has thrown down another gauntlet to conservative Christians by rewriting old hymns he regards as too militaristic.
As President Obama prepares to become the first sitting U.S. president to visit Cuba in 88 years, a U.S. senator has said further steps to normalize relations with Cuba could hinder the advance of religious freedom in the island nation.
David S. Dockery describes the late Charles Ryrie, longtime Dallas Theological Seminary faculty member and member of First Baptist Church in Dallas, as "a thoughtful theologian, a stalwart defender of the truthfulness of the Bible and faithful follower of Jesus Christ."
Christians who want to serve in medical missions don t have to travel to the interior of Africa to help people in need when there are countless opportunities to serve in the U S , says Dr Paul ...
National WMU President Linda Cooper has named the search committee for the mission organization's next executive director and requested prayer for the committee's work. Wanda Lee, who has led WMU since 2000, announced in January her intention to retire.
Danny Akin, president of Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary, underscores the passion for religious liberty and freedom of conscience that "runs in the veins of Baptists."
The Florida Baptist Convention has sent an additional $500,000 in Cooperative Program funds to the Southern Baptist Convention, representing 51 percent of the budget overage from Florida Baptist churches to the state convention's 2015 budget of $28.8 million.
If traditional marriage proponents get their way, 2016 could be the year Indiana's controversial Religious Freedom Restoration Act (RFRA) "fix" is overturned and the state reaffirms, among other freedoms, the right of business owners not to participate in same-sex weddings if doing so violates their religious convictions.
