How Social Media Will Help Us Finish the Great Commission

The church is living in an age of tremendous evangelistic opportunity. As we venture into the social, digital era, thegospel can travel further and faster than ever before. If the church is a vast volunteer army of people carrying the Good News of Jesus to the least,...

Nigerian Pentecostals Hope to ‘Plant Churches Like Starbucks

European and American missionaries have traveled to Africa to spread the gospel, but a Nigerian pastor plans to do the opposite: build churches as numerous as Starbucks. Pastor James Fadele is a pastor in Texas with the Redeemed Christian Church of God in North...

The Strangest Scripture in the New Testament

As a Jewish person, I can tell you that the word baptism conjures up horrible images for my people. From the early years of Catholicism, Jews were forced to be baptized as Christians. Sometimes it was under the threat of death. Other times the consequences of not...

New Orleans Church Defies ‘Sunday Morning Segregation’

Martin Luther King Jr. called Sunday morning the most segregated time of the week, and in many places that’s still the case. But in New Orleans, one congregation is going against that norm and is showing how diversity makes it stronger. Sitting in the heart of...