Dr. Robert Jeffress is no stranger to leading. He is the pastor of the historic First Baptist Church, Dallas, Texas, an 11,000-member congregation of huge influence around the world.He also has been a champion among U.S. evangelicals in following the model of Jesus in confronting the culture with ...
This week Texas native Craig Wayne sang \"The Old Rugged Cross\" on NBC\'s hit singing competition \"The Voice.\" The Gospel anthem helped secure the singer onto the show\'s season finale next week.
When Pastor Rodney Keith took the helm of a troubled north Jacksonville congregation he knew only one way to bring it back to life—the tried and true old-fashioned way. He seized a back-to-basics strategy instilled by Southern Baptist traditionalists Homer Lindsay and Jerry Vines, former pastors of ...
Students at medical schools around the United States planned \"die-ins\" to protest the chokehold death by police of an unarmed black man and New York activists demanded the city take action after a grand jury declined to indict the officer involved.
Michigan\'s House-approved Religious Freedom Restoration Act intends to grant the state\'s religiously devout residents the right to assert their faith\'s beliefs as a legal defense.
Around 7,000 to 9,000 people will give just one can of food to see a 70,000 string synchronized light show tuned to the songs of the season this year at Pine Forest Baptist Church in Vidor.Since 2009, the folks there have produced a 12 nights of the holiday season that includes a near-life-size ...
An executive jet crashed into a Maryland neighborhood on Monday, killing at least three people aboard and leaving three people missing on the ground, fire officials said.
More than 150 protesters were arrested in California overnight after shutting down a major freeway in another outbreak of nationwide demonstrations against police use of deadly force on minorities.
The CIA torture report, the result of a five-year Senate investigation into the \"enhanced interrogation techniques\" of the government agency, is expected to be released Tuesday. The 480-page document will detail the methods used by the CIA on prisoners accused of terrorism in post-9/11 America. ...
Flames destroyed a massive seven-story apartment building under construction next to a fire station in downtown Los Angeles and spread to a nearby high-rise on Monday, forcing the shutdown of a major freeway through the morning rush-hour.
According to the The Bradenton Herald, accused triple murderer Andrés \"Andy\" Avalos confessed to killing his wife Amber, her friend Denise Potter, and James \"Tripp\" Battle III, pastor of Bayshore Baptist Church in Bradenton.Avalos, 33, reportedly gave a \"full confession\" to investigators with ...
President Barack Obama met with Britain\'s Prince William at the White House on Monday as part of the prince\'s short visit to the U.S.