Month: July 2012

Visiting Missionaries Draw Ire of Parents Over VBS Invitation

A simple invitation to a Vacation Bible School in New York City has turned into a battle of theology between a Baptist church and parents of children from a local elementary school. With the help of a youth group from South Carolina in New York doing m... »

How to Find Rest

Unlike the things around us, rest is not humanity’s default state. We don’t fall back into rest after we’ve accomplished something. Instead, we move to the next thing that distracts us. By rest, I don’t mean kicking up our legs while we watch football. I mean time spent focused on God’s Kingdom and not our [...] »

Pentecostal Research Center Preserves Pentecostal Preaching

As part of its mission to preserve Church of God heritage, the Dixon Pentecostal Research Center has a continuing project focused on preserving preaching. The Church of God has been blessed with many great pulpiteers who have had enormously important m... »

Don’t Let Delays Defeat You

A breakthrough is waiting for those who persevere. If you have stopped praying, receive fresh grace to pray again. George Mueller, the great 19th-century British evangelist, prayed in more than $7 million during his lifetime to feed the thousands of or... »