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By Lillian Kwon , Christian Post Reporter A Florida megachurch has axed its traditional and contemporary Sunday worship services, refusing to continue down the wide path of segregated worship. Coral Ridge Presbyterian Church in Fort Lauderdale now offers only one service at 10:15 a.m. with, essentially, blended worship – that means no more separation based [...]
By Avis Thomas-Lester and Hamil R. Harris Members of a divided Jericho City of Praise attended services at two locations on Sunday, the first time members of the church worshipped formally since Joel R. Peebles, the acting pastor and son of the church’s founders, was ousted and stripped of his membership last week. About 300 [...]
Christian Newswire LYNCHBURG, VA – As announced today at a joint press conference, Thomas Road Baptist Church will serve as the host church for the new film “Finding Faith.” This new faith-based film centers on the work of Bedford, VA, Sheriff Mike Brown and DOJ task forces around the country in their groundbreaking work to [...]
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By Bob Allen DECATUR, GA. (ABP) – A gay Christian told Baptists April 20 that whatever their views about homosexuality, churches can learn something from committed same-sex covenant relationships. Cody Sanders, a Ph.D. candidate at Brite Divinity School and member of Broadway Baptist Church in Fort Worth, Texas — a congregation kicked out of the [...]
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LANSDOWNE, VA., April 21, 2012—Evangelical Christianity lost one of its most eloquent and influential voices today with the death of Charles W. “Chuck” Colson. The Prison Fellowship and Colson Center for Christian Worldview founder died at 3:12 p.m. ET today at the age of 80. After a brief illness, Colson passed away at a Northern [...]
CHICAGO (CBS) — The older you are, the more likely you are to believe in God, according to a new University of Chicago study. As WBBM Newsradio’s Bernie Tafoya reports, researchers from the National Opinion Research Center at the U of C mined data from three surveys conducted in 30 countries between 1991 and 2008 [...]
WASHINGTON (BP) — Prison Fellowship Ministries founder Chuck Colson is near death and doctors have urged his family to gather by his bedside, according to a statement from his ministry. Colson — a popular Christian author and speaker — has been hospitalized since Friday, March 30, when his speech became slurred during a conference. Doctors [...]
By Sara Shelton NEW YORK (BP) – When pastor Freddy T. Wyatt arrives at his New York City church plant and sits down in his office every day, he looks out the window. There, on the side of the Broadway Plaza Hotel, is a four-story billboard that is home to ads for products like Coca-Cola [...]
