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???Everything is just charred and gone???
3+ day, 21+ hour ago (915+ words) ‘I’m sorry to tell you, but your church is on fire.” Manuel Florescu was up at 3:15 a.m. Thursday with his wife, Leslie, and youngest of six children, 2-year-old Sorin, when he got a call from the Troy Police Department…...
225 years ago, a revival gave birth to a movement
3+ day, 23+ hour ago (1461+ words) BOURBON COUNTY, KY. — By the thousands, the believers came — Baptists, Methodists and Presbyterians among them. In covered wagons and carriages, pioneer settlers traveled to the backwoods of Kentucky for a weeklong camp meeting orchestrated by a 28-year-old Presbyterian clergyman named…...
Editorial: Why the Cane Ridge Revival still matters
3+ day, 23+ hour ago (688+ words) ‘Church of Christ. Established A.D. 33.” Most of us have seen such a sign outside a building where the Lord’s church meets. We know what it means: God established the Church of Christ when Peter preached on the Day of Pentecost,…...
In rural Idaho, BFFs transform a greenhouse into a thriving Christian school
1+ week, 1+ day ago (1699+ words) NAPLES, IDAHO — An eye-catching sign featuring a Christian school’s Rams mascot greets logging trucks along heavily traveled U.S. 95, about 40 miles south of the Canadian border. Just off the highway, tamarack and ponderosa pine trees dot the landscape as K…...
How churches are rethinking senior ministry
2+ week, 3+ day ago (1326+ words) NASHVILLE, TENN. — “I’m part of the irrelevance.” Those words, from an older adult at the Harpeth Hills Church of Christ, stopped Robyn Arab in her tracks. As director of the church’s Resource Center on Aging, Arab had spent years promoting…...
Reaching Latin America — in Spain
2+ week, 5+ day ago (1498+ words) VIGO, SPAIN — As the train was leaving the station in western Spain, Luisa Andrade saw a man in the aisle with a confused look. She stood up. Using some kind of sixth cultural sense, she picked him out as a…...
A faith-based approach to real-world leadership
2+ week, 6+ day ago (608+ words) Effective leadership requires a wide range of skills. We must understand how to deliver hard feedback, lead meetings and develop our teams. At the same time, many of the most crucial leadership skills have nothing to do with the way…...
A good choice and a bittersweet baptism
3+ week, 1+ day ago (976+ words) MADILL, OKLA. — Lucy, you never got to meet your grandmother, my mom. Mimi. We found out you were on the way just a few days before she died from pancreatic cancer. At her funeral, your mother was fighting terrible bouts…...
Why two churches came back together after six decades apart
3+ week, 1+ day ago (1815+ words) DURANT, OKLA. — Just off U.S. 69/75 beside a Choctaw Travel Plaza billboard, nearly 500 Christians gather in a multipurpose room filled with four-legged cushioned chairs. About 15 miles north of the Texas state line, this growing church in the home city of Southeastern…...
Trust — or blame?
3+ week, 1+ day ago (725+ words) What do you do when you are on the tightrope of life … and there is no net? We really have but two choices: Trust God with all you have, or blame God for allowing you to be in this position....