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While giving is up, membership, baptism, and church numbers continued to drop in 2018.
Kate Shellnutt
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A
boost in giving—up to $11.8 billion total—and major church growth in
Texas was not enough to fend off more than a decade of declines among
the Southern Baptist Convention last year.
The nation’s biggest Protestant denomination isn’t as big as it used to be, according to its ...
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Telling the uncomfortable story of “desolate” Tamar positions us to show a kind of compassion King David didn’t.
Jen Wilkin
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For
the past year, I’ve been teaching the Book of Samuel to a group of
women at my church. We go through it chapter by chapter, verse by verse,
and I challenge them to think critically about what they are reading.
The Book of Samuel is filled with stories that ask us to grapple with
the sovereignty of God and the severity of sin. But perhaps none is so
jarring as the story of Tamar and Amnon in 2 Samuel 13.
I’m sure you know it. Amnon, one of David’s sons, violates his own sister ...
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Testimony
I Used to Hide My Shame. Now I Take Shelter Under the Gospel.
How a gay atheist teenager discovered Jesus and stopped living undercover.
Greg Johnson
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Bill, I’m gay.”
The
word vomited out of my mouth. I had never actually said it before. Not
out loud, at least. We were in a mostly empty chapel on the grounds of
the University of Virginia, and a dozen or more Campus Crusaders were
gathering up on the stage to pray. Bill looked up at the stage, then
back down at me.
He nodded toward the door. His tone was hushed. “How about we step outside and talk,” he said. “Someplace more private.”
I imagined that everyone had ...
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Ex-members
say they’re uniquely equipped to reach gangs. Former Latin Kings
continue to fight Illinois restrictions they believe hamper their right
to share the gospel.
Morgan Lee
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Two
sets of brothers—Elias and Saul Juarez and Ruben and Oscar Sanchez—said
they just wanted to minister to gang members and help the men they
worked with leave this lifestyle behind. But they blame an anti-gang
lawsuit in their home in Elgin, Illinois, for holding up their work for
nearly ...
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The lack of signs and wonders in Nazareth says more about Jesus than about people’s lack of faith.
Jeff Peabody
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Off
the shores of the Philippines, a fisherman discovered a very large,
misshapen pearl. It was not pretty. It looked more like an amoeba, with
blobs and folds everywhere. He took the unusual find home and stowed it
under his bed.
When he moved ten years later, he had no use for it, so he gave it to ...
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Dr. George Lombardi, doctor to Mother Teresa and the Missionaries of Charity Published on Mar 22, 2013 A young doctor is ...
