How to Pray and Leave Your Burdens at Jesus’ Feet 28 Then Jesus said, “Come to me, all of you who are weary and carry heavy burdens, and I will give you rest. 29 Take my yoke upon you. Let me teach you, because I am humble and gentle at heart, and you will find rest for your souls. 30 For […]Read More

Albert Mohler has new competition in the race to become the next president of the Southern Baptist Convention. Two pastors, Ed Litton and Mike Stone, accepted nominations in the past week, each representing different emphases for the future of the SBC as the denomination grapples with an escalating debate over its approach to race. Mohler […]Read More

Scripture writing plans are incredibly simple, yet incredibly effective for helping us read, interpret and absorb the Word of God. Rather than simply letting our eyes pass over a verse and perhaps miss its full meaning, writing Scripture down helps us absorb each word and really think through what the passage before us is saying. […]Read More

Can a church be both a micro church and a large church at the same time? If a few years ago you were to ask Tony and Felicity Dale, or read Felicity’s book Simply Church, or Neil Cole, author of Organic Church, or Wolfgang Simson and his book Houses that Change the World, they would’ve […]Read More

The failed prophecies of Donald Trump’s reelection may have damaged the credibility of the US independent Charismatic wing of evangelicalism more than any event since the televangelist scandals of the 1980s. They have led some outsiders to criticize Christianity itself and rightly call us to introspection. Don’t misunderstand me: I’m Charismatic myself, and the majority […]Read More

At last month’s Jericho March on Washington, the head of a group called America’s Black Robe Regiment recounted stories about clergy who trained their men to fight in the Revolution and likened their situation to efforts to overturn the 2020 presidential election. “Where are our pastors today in this battle?” asked Bill Cook, a Virginia […]Read More

I was completely frustrated. Our SUVs were sunk in mud. And while still morning, I felt the December daylight already racing away. It seemed we would never reach our intended village in northwest Vietnam, nestled between Laos and China. It was my second trip in 2010 to Dien Bien province, home to the famous Vietnamese […]Read More

A Prayer for Peace in Confusing TimesBy: Emily Rose Massey “For God is not a God of confusion but of peace” – 1 Corinthians 14:33a, ESV When I am passionate about a subject or I want to know more about an intriguing topic, I thoroughly enjoy researching it. In fact, at one time, a friend’s […]Read More

Today is the day we celebrate Martin Luther King’s birthday and the cause he championed, racial equality. Over the years, I’ve developed a tradition of posting Letter from Birmingham Jail on the day we celebrate his birthday. I thought it might be worth explaining why I do. Since many evangelicals were on the wrong side […]Read More

A new survey from Barna Group confirmed what many faithful African American believers have known all their lives: Despite changes in society and politics, the black church holds steady as a refuge. While African American leaders say the black church plays a different role in today’s racial justice movement than it did when Martin Luther […]Read More