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
Emphasizing missions may be a more fitting way to observe St. Patrick's Day than wearing green and hailing Irish culture. That's because the March 17 celebration marks the traditional death date of Patrick of Ireland, the fifth century Christian who was instrumental in spreading the Gospel to the Irish.
In this week's Call to Prayer, Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary President Paige Patterson shares about the loss of a dear friend and why personal evangelism still counts.
Woman's Missionary Union selected six teens to serve as 2015 National Acteens Panelists based on their commitment to missions and participation and leadership in their Acteens group, church, school and community.
David Platt, president of Southern Baptists' International Mission Board, notes that the North American Mission Board's focus "to plant and revitalize churches" -- supported by the Annie Armstrong Easter Offering -- is key to spreading the Gospel "in this nation and to all nations."
Mark Lashey had zero desire to live in Delaware. From his perspective, there was no sweet tea, no biscuits. Children there didn't say sir and ma'am. The Northeast seemed both cold in terms of relationships and climate. Then he started praying during his neighborhood jogs, and God gave him a burden for the community.
Church planter Jonathan Land, one of the featured missionaries in this year's Week of Prayer for North American Missions, has carried his Texas family legacy to South Dakota. Land is the great, great, great, great grandson of Josiah H. Bell, who helped start the first Protestant church in Texas.
Year-to-date contributions to Southern Baptist Convention national and international missions and ministries received by the SBC Executive Committee are 4.81 percent above the year-to-date budgeted projection, and are 2.97 percent above contributions received during the same time frame last year, according to SBC Executive Committee President and CEO Frank S. Page.
New survey: 81% embrace religious freedom for those who uphold traditional marriage, according to findings announced by the National Religious Broadcasters and Family Research Council.
I took a break from meditating about tomorrow’s Super Bowl to read Chapter 16 of a book by Michael Allen Rogers with a news-you-can-use title, What Happens After I Die? (Crossway, 2013). Early in th...
Vicars in rural Britain are rushing between multiple churches to take Sunday services while their congregations are dying off faster than they can be replaced, according to a new report.
