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How do wealthy ministries spend the millions of dollars that Americans give them? Many of them won’t say, and few donors seem to know. That’s where Rusty Leonard and Wall Watchers come in.Read more of this story.
When a pickup truck backed out of a driveway into the side of James Giles’ passing Saturn Vue this spring, his FaithGuard insurance policy waived the $250 upfront deductible because the Kenosha man was driving to a Sunday morning service at First Christian Church in the Town of Bristol.Read more of this story.
ATLANTA — Here at the International Christian Retail Show it is, to borrow a phrase from Charles Dickens, the best of times or the worst of times, depending on whom you ask.Read more of this story.
Many young people rank listening to a sermon right up there with a trip to the dentist’s office or taking a pop quizBut what if that sermon included miming, inspiring music and dramatic dance moves?"Some people go to sleep listening to preachers," said Mason Porter, a Dallas mime who uses his talent for the dramatic to encourage people to embrace the Christian faith. "We’re outta the box."Read more of this story.
Could the next Harry Potter be a devout Christian?As the days tick down until Saturday, when a breathless world learns the fate of the teenage wizard, a new breed of fantasy fiction, with Potter-style stories, is emerging.Read more of this story.
Francine Tate disappeared after attending a Tuesday night prayer meeting at the offices of MadCity Church on East Washington Avenue. She never made it to her home in DeForest. She said she was going to stop at Token Creek Park on the way home to look for something she had lost while visiting the park on Sunday.Francine Tate is a kindergarten teacher at Abundant Life Christian School and helps lead the Alpha program at Mad City Church. The family is asking for prayers of safety, protection and that everything is okay, and that they will hear from her soon. Her…
COMMENTARY "There is nothing new under the sun," proclaims the Book of Ecclesiastes. The rise of the new new atheism confirms this ancient biblical wisdom.Of course the famous words of Ecclesiastes should not be taken in a slavishly literal sense, a technique that is all-too-common among those who think they can refute belief in God by showing that the Bible abounds in demonstrably false and self-contradictory statements.Read more of this story.
COPENHAGEN — The "Amens!" flew like popcorn in hot oil as 120 Christian worshipers clapped and danced and praised Jesus as if He’d just walked into the room. In a country where about 2 percent of the population attend church regularly and many churches draw barely enough worshipers to fill a single pew, the Sunday morning service at this old mission hall was one rocking celebration.Read more of this story.
ORLANDO, FLORIDA (ANS) — This month, The JESUS Film reaches an astounding milestone with the debut of its 1,000th translation, making it the most-translated film in history. According to a media release, if you took some of the biggest box office hits of all time, blockbuster films like Gone with the Wind, The Wizard of Oz, Star Wars, Titanic, and The Lion King — all have been translated into multiple languages and shown to audiences around the world. But if you added them all together they wouldn’t reach even half the number of translations of JESUS, the most-translated film in…
COMMENTARYChurch "hopping" is the ultimate "all about me" experience.I’m not talking about church "shopping" — say, moving into a new community, or deciding to start attending church altogether, and then visiting churches until becoming a member of one as soon as reasonably possible. And I’m not talking about leaving one’s church after finding unaddressed scandal in a church’s leadership, for instance, or when a person’s conscience becomes persuaded that something foundational to the belief system of that church is very wrong.Read more of this story.