A Prayer for Your Child to Be Bold for the Gospel 　　By Victoria Riollano 　　Don’t let anyone look down on you because you are young, but set an example for the believers in speech, in conduct, in love, in faith and in purity. - 1 Timothy 4:12 　　I couldn’t believe she took so many flyers. With only a few weeks...

　　A former Southern Baptist seminary professor and interim provost has been indicted on a charge of obstructing justice in a sexual misconduct case, the Department of Justice announced Tuesday. 　　Matt Queen, who was previously an administrator and professor at Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary, allegedly gave the FBI falsified notes during an ongoing investigation into alleged sexual misconduct at the seminary,...

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　　The accreditation agency for over 2,700 evangelical nonprofits wants to raise its standards to address one of the greatest financial risks posed to churches and ministries today: moral failures by leadership. 　　For decades, the Evangelical Council for Financial Accountability (ECFA) has established guidelines around financial transparency, stewardship, and governance. This year, the organization announced plans to add a new requirement...

　　Why Your Church Needs You 　　The eye cannot say to the hand, “I don’t need you!” And the head cannot say to the feet, “I don’t need you!”On the contrary, those parts of the body that seem to be weaker are indispensable…. -1 Corinthians 12:21-22 　　In March of 1981, President Ronald Reagan was shot as he was walking toward the...

　　Social Security and Medicare are in a meltdown. In their recently published Trustees Reports, Social Security is facing a $25.4 trillion shortfall and Medicare is facing a $52.8 trillion shortfall, a combined total of $78.2 trillion—a daunting figure that is not included in calculations of our national debt. 　　It sometimes seems like the only existing bipartisan consensus in Washington is...

　　Worship Together 　　By: Amanda Idleman 　　Editor’s Note:This devotional was written before the Covid-19 global outbreak. We hope that you can still take the principles of this devotional and apply it to your specific situation, no matter what worship looks like for you at the moment. 　　That is why I can never stop praising you; I declare your glory all day...

　　Pentecost 　　Weekly Overview: 　　God’s presence is real, full of love, and completely transformational. It takes what was broken and brings healing. It takes what was lost and guides us to our rightful place in the Father. It satisfies the weary, brings light to the darkness, and pours out the refreshing rain of God’s love on the dryest, deepest parts of...

　　Weekend, May 18, 2024 　　What We Have 　　Then Andrew, Simon Peter’s brother, spoke up. “There’s a young boy here with five barley loaves and two fish. But what good is that with this huge crowd?” (John 6:8-9 NLT) 　　Andrew was a spiritually perceptive guy. Initially he was a disciple of John the Baptist. And when Jesus came on the scene,...

　　Ask ChatGPT how to improve your spiritual life, and the natural-language processing artificial intelligence chatbot has plenty of suggestions. 　　But Americans are skeptical that artificial intelligence, or AI, has much to offer in the way of reliable religious guidance. 　　Sixty-eight percent of people dont think AI could help them with their spiritual practices or promote spiritual health, according to the...

　　Salvation in Christ Jesus was offered in National Statuary Hall May 16 at the unveiling of a statue of the iconic late global evangelist Billy Graham, which has John 3:16 and John 14:6 carved in its base. 　　Friends, Gods grace is undeserved, but through Christ it is freely given. And it is by trusting in Gods sacrifice that we are...

　　Most of Guy Ritchie’s movies have been stories of friendship between men, attempts to restore a much-needed confidence in a gender-neutral era. His rock music-video montages, clever dialogue, often in slang, and romantic interest in the criminal underworld have preserved the only remaining area of freedom for men in cinema. His preferred mode is comic, he likes focusing on the...