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Michael Catt, whose church helped launch the modern Christian movie era and whose ministry impacted millions, has passed away after a battle with cancer. He was 70. Catt formerly served as senior pastor of Sherwood Baptist Church (Albany, Ga.), which made a series of small-budget faith-centric films beginning in the 2000s that shocked Hollywood with […]
California megachurch pastor and Harvest Crusades founder Greg Laurie plans to hold a church-wide baptism next month at the historic Pirates Cove beach. Pirates Cove, located in Corona Del Mar, CA, is the exact location where Laurie was baptized as a young man during the 1970s Jesus Movement. “We are returning to Pirates Cove, the […]
The University of Oklahoma softball players said that Jesus is the reason for their joy and freedom ahead of their College World Series championship win. Team captain Grace Lyons told reporters that “the only way that you can have a joy that doesn’t fade away is from the Lord. Any other type of joy is […]
An online video has been published showing an Islamist mob viciously beating an older Christian shopkeeper with planks of wood in Pakistan. The British Asian Christian Association (BACA) reports that Yaqoob Masih, aged 61, was sitting on a chair in his grocery shop in Sian Village in Daska, Punjab, when the incident happened on May […]
Popular HGTV host Page Turner recently shared how her faith has played a role in her career as a home renovator and real estate broker. “It speaks to where we can find our lives sometimes,” Turner told CBN’s Faithwire regarding her HGTV show Fix My Flip. The show’s second season is now available. “I’ve been in a […]
On June 5, 1865, Anglican priest and polymath Sabine Baring-Gould wrote the processional hymn, “Onward, Christian Soldiers.” The hymn was originally written for children walking to Horbury St. Peter’s Church near Wakefield in Yorkshire, England. Far from the cultural stereotype that the hymn earned Baring-Gould— that of a militant, narrow-minded clergyman fearful of and […]
It’s very common to hear people critique various strategies, and simultaneously advance others, based on their observations of the ministry stylings of Jesus. For example, some will point to Jesus’ selecting 12 disciples (and among those, seemingly, focusing on three), doing life with them as a group for three years, and from that, draw conclusions […]
Whether it’s the Great Commission or Christ’s final command prior to his ascension to heaven, Scripture makes clear that our fundamental job as Christians is to help people in every culture know Jesus and follow his word. Far too often, however, we make the mistake of underestimating how creative God can be in accomplishing […]
Influential minister, broadcaster, and politician Pat Robertson passed away Thursday at the age of ninety-three. As of this writing, no cause of death has been given, but he is survived by his four children, fourteen grandchildren, and twenty-four great-grandchildren. Robertson is best known for his roles on The 700 Club and his political involvement, […]
Former Southern Baptist Convention president J.D. Greear has voiced concerns about the widespread debacle over women’s leadership after Saddleback Church, founded by Pastor Rick Warren, was disfellowshipped from the denomination. At least 12,000 Great Commission Baptists will be at the New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center for the SBC Annual Meeting from June 11 […]