By Robert M. Baxter Posted Nov. 14, 2015 Friday, 11/13 will be forever etched into the minds of the French people, much like 9/11 was for most Americans. More than 130 people have died and nearly 100 are still in critical condition from the Islamic terrorist attacks that rocked the French capital and wounded the soul […]
By: Chuck Lawless As a pastor, I always struggled with the best way to do announcements. Whatever we did, it never felt right. Over the years, I’ve noted what other churches have done – and I’d do announcements differently than I ever did back then. Here are some suggestions for doing announcements well: 1. Send […]
By: Frank G. Tunstall “My lover is radiant and ruddy, outstanding among ten thousand” (Song of Solomon 5:10). “Your attitude should be the same as that of Christ Jesus…” (Philippians 2:5). “He became what we are that He might make us what He is.” Saint Athanasius What people could not do for themselves in their […]
Author Unknown Originally posted at Fox News In Iraq today, Assyrian Christians have two blunt options — convert or die. With the radical Islamic State’s proud announcement that “the caliphate is here” (that note is painted on the walls of their cities), the next step in their plan is to systematically eradicate Christians from the […]
When a child in our church complained about an adult volunteer’s physical affection, we faced a difficult decision. By: Name Withheld Originally published in Leadership Journal at Christianity Today It was the last thing any church leader wants to hear at the end of a long, sweaty week of VBS. A mother, visibly upset, approached […]
By: ANNIE COTTON/CHRISTIAN AID MISSION Originally posted on Charisma News At several steps on their path to death by beheading and crucifixion last month, 11 indigenous Christian workers near Aleppo, Syria, had the option to leave the area and live. The 12-year-old son of a ministry team leader also could have spared his life […]
By Michael Brown Originally posted on Charisma News I’ve been saying that 2015 is the year of pushback, and this might be the most significant act of pushing back so far: A group of legal scholars, most of them university professors, have declared that the Supreme Court’s redefinition of marriage this past June 26 is not “the law of […]
“Remember the Prisoners As If Chained With Them” The original article first appeared at ACLJ. September 20. After two months without any physical affection or contact with family, today, American Pastor Saeed Abedini was able to have a visitation by a family member. It is through these visitations that Pastor Saeed expresses the pain and […]
By Frank G. Tunstall A. G. Garr, pastor of a holiness mission in Los Angeles, was the first white man to receive the Pentecostal baptism in the Azusa Street Pentecostal outpouring of 1906-1909. Garr took the message of Pentecost overseas, first to India. From there he went to Hong Kong where he served for a […]
Original Article appeared in Christianity Today By: Jayson Casper, (in the United Arab Emirates) September 11, 2005 Sam Espada led friends in a chorus of “Happy Birthday” for his sombrero-wearing brother at a Mexican restaurant. After dinner, they saw the latest Hollywood blockbuster. The five-story mall could have been anywhere in America, except that every […]