Author: Gordon Govier

When Stuart and Jill Briscoe came from their native England to shepherd Elmbrook Church in 1970, their global perspective helped shape the congregation as it grew into one of the nation’s early megachurches.Read more of this story.

LA CROSSE, WIS. — People musing about what keeps Mike Huckabee in the race for the presidency have wondered if he’s sowing the ground for future television deals, angling for a vice presidential nod or getting ready to run for the White House again in 2012.If those are his goals, the former Arkansas governor isn’t admitting it. He told half a dozen audiences over the last three days in Wisconsin that he can still win or, at the very least, give voice to conservative voters not yet sold on the presumptive Republican Party nominee, Sen. John McCain of Arizona.Read more…

Last spring, something was stirring under the white steeple of the Billy Graham Center at Wheaton College.A motley group of young and clean-cut, goateed and pierced, white-haired and bespectacled filled the center’s Barrows Auditorium. They joined their voices to sing of "the saints who nobly fought of old" and "mystic communion with those whose rest is won." A speaker walked an attentive crowd through prayers from the 5th-century Gelasian Sacramentary, recommending its forms as templates for worship in today’s Protestant churches. Another speaker highlighted the pastoral strengths of the medieval fourfold hermeneutic. Yet another gleefully passed on the news that…

Ajinbayo Akinsiku wants the world to know Jesus Christ, just not the gentle, blue-eyed Christ of old Hollywood movies and illustrated Bibles. Mr. Akinsiku says his Son of God is “a samurai stranger who’s come to town, in silhouette,” here to shake things up in a new, much-abridged version of the Bible rooted in manga, the Japanese form of graphic novels.Read more of this story.

DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. — On Sunday, the Rev. Ronnie Barton found himself comparing the trials of the Christian life to the challenges confronting Nascar race teams. He was preaching to about 40 race fans in a 20-by-20-foot tent amid some 1,000 recreational vehicles and motor homes on the grounds of Daytona International Speedway, where fans have been gathering for Speedweeks, the prelude to the Daytona 500.Read more of this story.

The Larimores wrote "His Brain, Her Brain, How Divinely Designed Differences Can Strengthen Your Marriage," published by Zondervan this month. The book focuses on what the Colorado couple say are more than 100 God-given neurological differences that can make a marriage happier.Read more of this story.

NASHVILLE, TENNESSEE (ANS) — Grammy Award winning Christian singer, Rebecca St. James, whose signature song about abstinence, “Wait For Me” is a hot send at iTunes this Valentine’s Day has a different take on Valentine’s Day.The Australian-born singer says: "What better ‘valentine’ to give the one your love than to remain pure until marriage — to consider yourself a gift worth giving only to the one with whom you intend to spend the rest of your life! Imagine yourself asking God to give you His wisdom and direction in the process of finding His choice in seeking the love of…

If you heard Republican presidential candidate Mike Huckabee’s victory speech on Super Tuesday, you may have noticed him speaking in what is almost a separate dialect. Some listeners have even asked us what he was talking about. So NPR headed off to the National Mall in search of people who understood Huckabee’s biblical allusions.It proved almost as hard as getting a camel through the eye of a needle.Read more of this story.

WAYNE, N.J. — The walls of the jail cell were built from stone, providing the perfect place for David Tyree to hit rock bottom. Arrested for drug possession after the police found half a pound of marijuana in his car, caged between stone walls and steel bars, Tyree covered his face with his hands. Read more of this story.

(CNSNews.com) – Intelligent design theory, or ID, is opening new doors of scientific research, particularly in cancer and other disease research, according to its adherents, but a new movie, "Expelled" starring Ben Stein explores how an "elitist scientific establishment" is apparently muzzling and smearing scientists who publicly discuss ID.Read more of this story.