Raising awareness about the mental health crisis and increasing suicides facing rural America is at the center of a new free resource released by a Christian college–based training hub.
Technology gives us unprecedented ways to collaborate as the global Church but it takes intentionality to use it for Kingdom purposes. During global Bible month the CEO of YouVersion Bible, with over 1 billion installs, notes that people walking closely with Jesus and investing in authentic relationships are what transforms the world.
"One of the most surprising aspects of evangelical discourse on LGBTQ issues has been the insistence by some believers that same-sex attraction is a sin even if one doesn’t act on it", says commentator Bruce Baron. Gregory Coles has a different opinion and shares that with Bruce in this opinion piece.
What are the chances that churches could devote 50% of their budgets for missions? Some prove that it is possible to grow from giving beyond themselves to see the gospel embedded in places where it currently has little influence.
Evangelicals yearn to see crowds entering God's Kingdom and this is legitimately happening in some parts of the world, commonly known as people movements. By removing some persistent barriers, it is possible to see the Church reactivated as a movement, even as it already is in some of the most hostile of contexts. This opinion links to a statement that encourages the Church worldwide to reactivate itself to once again see crowds coming to Christ.
The Assemblies of God has launched a new initiative to expand Pentecostal theological education for ministry leaders worldwide through fully online degree programs. The Assemblies of God Theological Seminary (AGTS) at Evangel University in Springfield announced the launch of AGTS International, designed to make advanced theological training accessible “regardless of geographic or economic barriers.”
Thousands of college students made first-time commitments to Christ or rededicated their lives during an evangelistic outreach organized by UniteUs near three major universities in Cincinnati, Ohio.
Evangelist Will Graham launched a “Sunshine State Good News Tour” in Florida shortly after a successful evangelistic outreach in the European country of Estonia.
Christian and Jewish leaders have signed a landmark interfaith declaration urging that Artificial Intelligence be developed and deployed within ethical boundaries that preserve human dignity, prevent harm, and ensure the technology remains under human control.
More Bible reading results in a greater level of loving and generous behavior, according to the just-released eighth chapter of the 15th annual State of the Bible report by the American Bible Society.
The Bible Society has unveiled a sweeping analysis of how culture, religion, politics and economics shape engagement with Scripture across the globe. The Patmos Typology Report, developed with the United Bible Societies and built on Gallup’s data science, examines 85 countries and territories across seven 'missiological clusters' that reveal current opportunities and barriers for Bible work.
The National Commission for Human Rights (NCHR) has filed a landmark constitutional petition before the newly established Federal Constitutional Court (FCC), seeking an end to manual sewer cleaning – a practice that has claimed the lives of dozens of Christian and other sanitation workers over the years.
