
Pray for our Hispanic missionaries
During a family meal, family worship, church small group meeting, or your own devotion time, this prayer guide will lead you to pray for the lost and for your missionaries who are steadfastly present among them.
During a family meal, family worship, church small group meeting, or your own devotion time, this prayer guide will lead you to pray for the lost and for your missionaries who are steadfastly present among them.
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The greatest unmet need in any community is love. People crave fellowship and love. Quality small groups are part of overall church health. Here are six ingredients to grow your small groups.
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Wesley Duewel, the 20th century missionary and prayer leader, once observed, “Praise gives you the spirit of triumph and overcoming. Praise fires you with holy zeal. It lifts you above the battles to the perspective of God’s throne.” As a result of the significance of praise, it must be obvious that no prayer life is maturing properly until it includes frequent expressions of praise.
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It’s been 20 years since my wife and I, and two couples from our mother church launched Love Fellowship Baptist Church in Romeoville, Illinois. As we recently celebrated the church’s anniversary, I’ve been thinking about the lessons I’ve learned simply from sticking around. Here are three.
Most teenagers experienced a learning deficit during the COVID lockdown of 2020. Many educators believe they will never overcome that deficit. Similarly, could teenagers experience a spiritual deficit when their churches go for many months with no student pastor?
In many ways, the future of our churches depends on our reaching, discipling, and mobilizing a young generation. I am not despondent. If pastors and churches make some Spirit-directed and Spirit-empowered changes, we are going to see the graphs move in new directions.
After 50 years of working in and studying youth ministry, Richard Ross says a "radical reevaluation" is needed to foster a "mature, enduring faith" in teenagers.
Easter sermons are incomplete if they don't convey Christ's current reign, columnist Richard Ross says.
FORT WORTH, Texas (BP)–Baptist Press provides a helpful platform for discussion about the first draft of recommendations from the Great Commission Resurgence Task Force. The civility and gracious spirit of all those who are providing comment there seems more Christ-like than much of the blogosphere. The goal of the GCR process was resurgence. Consider: What […]
FORT WORTH, Texas (BP)--Real men eat rare steaks cut from the grizzly bear they killed with a hunting knife.
FORT WORTH, Texas (BP)--It's been fascinating to see a presidential candidate capture the loyalty of young people.
FORT WORTH, Texas. (BP)--Almost every Sunday morning I’m in a different pastor’s office. Often the ministers gather for prayer before I preach that morning.
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (BP)--I believe it is time for leaders to challenge every committed student to spend a summer, semester or year in full-time mission work while young.