A recent announcement from the IRS may help ministers around the state save on their taxes, according to Missouri Baptist Convention (MBC) Human Resources and Guidestone specialist Gene Foster. According to Foster, this IRS announcement made clear that ministers -- and other taxpayers -- who have ...
A grass roots effort to intervene in lives of children and teens before those lives need reclamation has grown out of Oak Cliff Bible Fellowship, where Tony Evans is pastor.At least 50,000 students\' lives have been impacted since the inner-city church founded by Evans in 1976 began adopting ...
Anne Graham Lotz, daughter of the great American evangelist Billy Graham, says Easter is about forgiveness.
In a heartbreaking cry for prayer, Saddleback Community Church Pastor Rick Warren called April 5 \"the worst day of my life,\" referring to his son\'s suicide in 2013.In a Facebook message that has received nearly 40,000 \"Likes\" since yesterday, Warren wrote that it was during Easter week two ...
One week the crowds in Jerusalem welcomed Jesus as King, and the next week crowds demanded He be crucified.So why did the crowds turn so quickly?Billy Graham suggests these were not necessarily the same people, and, asks readers to consider which crowd they would have joined.
Rick Warren last Sunday preached a message he\'s been waiting to preach for 35 years. Just four words. \"I told you so.\" The 61-year-old pastor of Saddleback Church in Lake Forest, California -- one of America\'s largest churches -- gathered 20,000 at Anaheim\'s Angel Stadium March 22 for a 35th ...
Satellite delivery of the Bible spoken in at least 880 languages is on the horizon.Faith Comes By Hearing announced late last week an Aerospace Advisory Council has been formed to direct the future of global digital Bible distribution.
After a widely popular evangelical blogger and writer announced she joined the Episcopal Church earlier this year, the director of the Institute on Religion and Democracy said more \"like-minded\" evangelicals could take a cue from Rachel Held Evans instead of \"exploiting the evangelical market ...
The Presbyterian Church USA (PCUSA) has formally approved recognition of gay marriage in its denomination, continuing the group\'s leftward drift away from biblical Christianity.
Three 40-foot containers packed with 83,723 Spanish-language Bibles to be distributed among Baptist churches in both Western and Eastern Cuba will leave South Florida during the week of March 15 and are expected to arrive in Havana March 25. The shipment is the third Southern Baptists have sent to ...
A move by leaders of City Church in San Francisco to welcome same-sex married couples as members was a \"bad day by the Bay,\" Jeff Iorg, of Golden Gate Baptist Theological Seminary wrote in a blog on the seminary\'s website March 16. The congregation\'s elders March 13 told members in a letter ...
When three women and then three men wed each other in ceremonies in Massachusetts and Thailand in the past year, the news barely made a ripple given the impact of what could be a growing trend towards \"polyamory.\" The apparent apathy on the part of Christian leaders in not addressing the trend is ...