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MANILA, Philippines (BP)–When Tropical Storm Ketsana blew through Manila Sept. 26, it dumped more rain in six hours than the Philippines’ capital normally receives the entire month of September, resulting in what has been called the worst flood in 40 years.In any city, such rainfall would lead to flooding. For a crowded city that sits below sea level with an underdeveloped sewage system, the results proved disastrous. By late Saturday afternoon, the government reported 80 percent of Manila was under water.More than 240 people have lost their lives and hundreds of thousands are displaced. Southern Baptist missionaries living in Manila…
Conservative Lutherans from congregations throughout the country voted on Saturday to begin deciding on whether to go their separate ways from the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America.Arguing that the ELCA has fallen into heresy, the traditional group has essentially initiated a process that they hope will lead to a reconfiguration of Lutheranism in North America.
A fast-growing church in Seattle that’s popular with the twentysomething crowd launched three new campuses on the same day. Although the multi-site movement was championed by big box churches, the phenomenon has spread to smaller communities."Multi-site (one church in two or more locations) is no longer just for a church of 2,000 or 5,000 or 10,000," said Geoff Surratt, co-author of A Multi-Site Church Road Trip, in a recent episode of Leadership Network’s "The Show.""We see churches as small as two or three hundred weekend attenders starting to launch new campuses," said Surratt, countering early criticisms that the multi-site movement…
There seems to be no shortage of folks from the Evangelical Lutheran Church of America who are upset about several votes last month at the denomination’s convention in Minneapolis. For those of you who weren’t reading about how — despite a tornado that showed up on a key day of the conference — the denomination voted to approve gay clergy and, by implication, same-sex blessings — a huge switch that placed the ELCA as America’s largest mainline Protestant denomination to accept homosxual ministers.
Three hundred pairs of hands are not quite enough hands to reach around the Wisconsin capitol in downtown Madison. But still, 300 is a powerful number. With only 300 men, Gideon defeated thousands of Midianites. "Gideon had 300 people and God did amazing things," Renee Springer told the group of worshipers who gathered at the Inn on the Park this evening for the first annual Wisconsin Prayer Rally.
As many as 60,000 people representing over 300 churches and 65 youth organizations gathered Sunday for an hour of prayer in New York City’s Times Square. On the day that New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg proclaimed to be “Prayer in the Square Day,” the thousands who gathered for “Prayer in the Square” prayed for the nation in three-minute intervals with songs performed by a 180-voice gospel choir between each prayer segment.
ABC News Nightline Begins Series on The Ten CommandmentsTo explore one 21st century interpretation of the second commandment — the prohibition against false idols — "Nightline" co-anchor Terry Moran traveled to Seattle to spend the afternoon with Pastor Mark Driscoll of the Mars Hill Church. Mark Driscoll preaches against replacing God with false idols in modern culture. Driscoll frequently preaches to his church members about idolatry and the seemingly endless supply of potential idols modern culture throws in believers’ paths.
Can we all get along? Maybe not when it comes to science and religion. Just ask scientist Francis Collins, installed last month as head of the National Institutes of Health. It wasn’t just newspaper editorials — scientists such as Harvard’s Steven Pinker, who called Collins an "advocate of profoundly anti-scientific beliefs," criticized placing an outspoken evangelical Christian in the post.
Around two million students across the nation and overseas are expected to gather at their schools Wednesday to ask God to bring moral and spiritual awakening to their campuses and countries.
Boomerangs, a resale shop operated through Madison’s Door Creek Church (DCC) opened one year ago on Sept 9th, at 1133 N. Sherman Avenue, in the Northgate Shopping Center. A report to the DCC community states: "We continue to see God’s hand moving in this special ministry. We have had over 12,500 customers and over $129,000 in sales. More importantly real needs in our community are being met."