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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
By Jeff Brumley WAYNESBORO, VA. (ABP) – Dale Tadlock is a 45-year-old youth minister, a fact that he says baffles some folks. He’s often been asked when he plans “to grow up” and “get a real ministry job?” But leaving youth ministry isn’t even on the radar for Tadlock, the associate pastor-minister to young adults [...]
By Michael Gryboski, Christian Post Reporter A new translation of the Bible into English does not contain the name “Jesus Christ” nor the word “angel.” It also prefers the word “emissary” over “apostle.” The Voice, a Bible that replaces “Jesus Christ” with terms like “Jesus the Anointed One,” had its complete edition released by Thomas [...]
By Lifeway.com staff NASHVILLE, Tenn. – Nearly eight in 10 Protestant pastors strongly disagree that eternal life can be obtained through religions other than Christianity, according to a survey by LifeWay Research. The survey of 1,000 Protestant pastors asked respondents for their reaction to the statement, “If a person is sincerely seeking God, he/she can [...]
By Steve Stoler WFAA GRAPEVINE — The pastor of a North Texas mega-church who is no stranger to stunts is now facing new criticism. This time, it’s not over a sex sermon; it involves his use of live animals during an Easter Sunday service. Fellowship Church pastor Ed Young says it was a creative Bible [...]
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