Just up river from where Billy Graham preached his first sermon in Palatka, Fla. folks will gather this weekend in for a 3-day Festival of Hope in Jacksonville\'s River City.\"Jacksonville is ripe for the harvest and we\'re really excited about that,\" Festival Director Eric Boutieller said about ...
Florida senator and Republican presidential hopeful Marco Rubio says gay rights advocates will come after churches for biblical preaching on homosexuality and traditional marriage. They will call it \"hate speech,\" he says.
With flash flood warnings waking residents of America\'s fourth largest city today, yesterday\'s hope of receding waters have hampered volunteers who are waiting to descend on the city to help.\"The water has to go down before we can do anything, but when it does we will be quick to mobilize our ...
One might think after 90 years it would be time to stop. But for the Lester Family of St. Louis, stopping isn\'t an option. This is the 90th year the family has performed Christian concerts and recorded gospel albums. The Lesters may be the longest continuous running music group of any genre, ...
Afshin Ziafat, a Texas pastor whose family disowned him when he renounced Islam to follow Christ as a teenager, was among dozens who spoke at the Ethics & Religious Liberty Committee\'s leadership summit on racial reconciliation.In his 30-minute address, Ziafat told attendees his salvation is ...
Texas Senator Ted Cruz believes in \"God\'s people of faith,\" the 2016 presidential contender wrote in a recent letter to pastors across the nation. The letter was an invitation for recipients to participate in Issachar Training today and tomorrow -- May 21-22 -- in Oklahoma City.
Baptist, Presbyterian, Lutheran and non-denominational churches in the town of Fountain Hills, Ariz., are walking hand-in-hand in opposition to the progressive teachings of a local Methodist pastor, but at least one local resident says this dispute has the same effect as that of the Sunnis and ...
\"Get this kid a Bible, let him know that Jesus loves him, and invite him to church.\"
Two years after France legalized same-sex marriage, the United Protestant Church of France (EPUF) has authorized its clergy to bless same-sex marriages, the French news service RFI has reported.
The Southern Baptist Convention\'s International Mission Board, which selects and trains missionaries for the denomination and has more than 4,700 field personnel under appointment, has changed its personnel qualifications to allow \"new pathways\" for service to those who previously could not be ...
More than 700 commitments to Christ, including 300 salvation decisions, were made among the nearly 11,000 individuals who attended the Northeast Georgia GO TELL Crusade at the Stephens County High School Football Stadium in Toccoa, Georgia, May 3-6.
Nabeeh Abbassi has a unique perspective of Middle Eastern culture and believes a better understanding of the differences between easterners and westerners could help Christians in their approach to evangelism.\"The distinction between East and West is that religion is not a part of your life -- it ...