It’s easy to forget that even the smallest gifts point to incredible divine abundance. It is difficult to remember just how much we have been given. It would have been enough if God had given us three square meals and a map for the journey. It would have been enough to have the promise of…
An evangelical from Pennsylvania argues the postal service should have accommodated his Sabbatarian beliefs. Maybe if Gerald Groff had only asked for one Sunday off, that would have been okay. Or he could have just asked for part of Sunday, shifting his schedule to deliver the mail after church, and that would have been fine…
First Baptist Church Atlanta pastor lived by the motto “Obey God and leave all the consequences to him.” Charles Stanley once took a punch to the face for his church. The longtime pastor and oft-praised preacher, who died on Tuesday at age 90, fought hard to lead in his Southern Baptist congregation, earning him a…
Southern Baptist leader Brent Leatherwood calls on the state to “restrain evil” through Governor Lee’s plan to keep weapons from those deemed a threat to themselves or others. Writing as the president of the Southern Baptist Convention’s Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission (ERLC) and the father of three children who survived the shooting at the…
I had never heard of him, but here he was convincing me to pray for a country I couldn’t even find on a map. It was October 1959. I was a sophomore at Wheaton College, majoring in history and planning to attend law school after graduation. One Friday night, four friends convinced me to drive…
The founder of Operation Mobilisation moved untold numbers to proclaim God’s love around the globe. George Verwer had a question. When the 18-year-old and his friend finished praying in a dorm room in Maryville, Tennessee, Verwer looked at his college buddy and asked, “Well? Are you ready to go?” Dale Rhoton was startled. He had…
On the 60th anniversary of Martin Luther King Jr.’s Letter from a Birmingham Jail, Christians are reminded of how much further we must go. On Good Friday in 1963, eight white Alabama clergymen published an open letter in Birmingham calling for the Black community to cease their civil rights demonstrations. These church leaders—from Methodist, Episcopal,…
During Songkran, Christians find parallels in honoring their elders but point to the living water. This is the third article in the Engaging Buddhism series, which explores different facets of Buddhism and how Christians can engage with and minister to Buddhists. For the first time since the pandemic began, the massive water fights of Songkran…
“If you have ever felt like most worship music sounds the same, it may be because the worship music … is written by just a handful of songwriters.” On Easter Sunday, the worship band at Bethel Community Church in Redding, California, opened the service with “This Is Amazing Grace,” a 2012 hit that has remained…
Today’s groups are becoming more integrated with the rest of the church. In the 1990s and early 2000s, youth group culture relied on delivering fun and entertainment by any means possible: gross-out games, Christian rock concerts, hip hangout rooms, and pizza-party blowouts. The activities were seen as vehicles to get kids in the door before…
