Across our country, public education for multiplied millions of students has already begun for the 2019-2020 school year, and for others, it will start soon. The launch of a new school year is a major event and is approached with varying degrees of anticipation and excitement, along with concerns and fears. As we move into a new academic year,...
When a pastor’s vehicle got trapped in a snowdrift near Sparta, Missouri, over 70 years ago, a local farm girl offered the use of the family phone. The subsequent friendship led to a lifetime of ministry for Buena M. Huffman, now 88 and still preaching.
After using the phone, evangelist Warren Davenport, who deliberate to start an Assemblies of...
When Hurricane Dorian devastated the Bahamas, Southeastern University students in Lakeland, Florida, were hasty to respond. They throw an initiative, Hope for the Bahamas, and raised up $24,000 in a matter of hours. During the Sept. 9 night chapel services, students prayed for fellow students and others who were affected by the storm. They also took up a special offering to...
Tommy Barnett entered the ministry at age 16 and molded some great ministries, including Phoenix First Assembly (now Dream City Church), a highly powerful annual pastors’ conference, and the Dream Center in Los Angeles co-founded with his son Matthew. Tommy’s three children lead ministries of their own as they bring the family heritage into the next generation.
“God has been gracious to give Marja...
For four years, Freedom City Church (FCC) in Springfield, Missouri, has held an annual Festival of Hope at its OCC School in Fordland. The festival contains hip-hop, live music, ministry, testimonies, and freshly charcoal-grilled cheeseburgers with sides. But unlike most organization efforts, the guest list to this event is highly limited as the OCC (Ozark Correctional Center) School is located behind prison walls.
Prison...
Danesh P. Manik’s way to America’s Midwest
covered 10,000 miles. But his faith trip took even longer, a bridge to infinity
that spanned the cultural and divine chasm between his Indian Hindu upbringing
and the gospel of Christ.
Born into a Brahman family — the maximum caste in
Hinduism — Manik was projected to follow his grandfather and father in priestly
duties for the ancient,...
Is the so-called Christian right driving liberals away from religion?
A new FiveThirtyEight analysis of recent studies proposes it is.
Researchers Amelia Thomson-DeVeaux and Daniel Cox say new data confirmed what a paper advised in 2002: that “distaste for the Christian right’s connection with politics was prompting some left-leaning Americans to walk away from religion.” That, in turn, helped explain why...
Christian
students from popular evangelical college Wheaton are suing the city of Chicago
over rules which they say restrict their ability to share the gospel in public
parks.
The students, who are part of a Chicago Evangelism Team, managed
by the Office of Christian Outreach at Wheaton College, claim they have been banned
from evangelizing by security personnel working at the downtown “Millennium
Park.”
Unfulfilled by the...
A month ago, after Hurricane Dorian devastated the northern portion of the Bahamas, Assembly of God World Missions instantly gave emergency relief goods and a 3-person Convoy of Hope (COH) group arrived to begin damage assessment and help Assembly of God leaders unite relief through local churches.
AGWM Caribbean Area Director David Speer give reports that two AG churches...
Pain
The first thing that
comes to my attention is that more hurt is knowledgeable in marriage and
nurturing than anywhere else in the world.
"Marriage was
shaped by God as an image of the covenant-keeping love of Christ and his
church."
This is the price of agreement-making and agreement-keeping love. It cost Jesus his life to have that connection with us. So I am...
