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Screengrab/NBC News affiliate WVTM After 182 years of operation, a historic church in Birmingham, Alabama, held its final service before closing its doors for good, citing dwindling attendance numbers as the reason. The Five Mile Presbyterian Church held its final service on Sunday. Following the closure, the church’s original building and cemetery will be placed […]
A new report by Lifeway Research suggests that the Southern Baptist Convention lost nearly half a million members in 2022. The report, released on Tuesday, revealed that the SBC had 13.2 million members last year, a 457,371 drop from 2021, when it had 13.68 million members. According to the Annual Church Profile compiled by Lifeway, […]
Pastor and author John MacArthur says he’s feeling better and will be back in the pulpit soon after undergoing a heart procedure and being placed on medication earlier this year that sapped his energy. The pastor of Grace Community Church in Southern California, MacArthur, gave an update on his health during the May 8 broadcast […]
Viacheslav Bublyk/Unsplash A woman who stole around $30,000 from a church in Wisconsin pleaded guilty to theft and will serve four days in the House of Correction and pay a fine to the church she stole from. Mary Moton, a 62-year-old resident of Milwaukee and former employee at Shiloh Missionary Baptist Church, pleaded guilty last […]
A prominent Texas pastor is calling for AR-15 rifles to be banned in light of a string of mass shootings – including one in his home state – that involved such a weapon. Dwight McKissic, the senior pastor of Cornerstone Baptist Church and the author of Beyond Roots and Beyond Roots II, made the comments […]
Holy Land Experience The Holy Land Experience, one of America’s largest biblical theme parks, lies in ruins after Trinity Broadcasting Network spent more than $130 million on the project. AdventHealth purchased the Orlando property from TBN in 2021 for $32 million. According to NBC News affiliate WESH, AdventHealth submitted plans to build a hospital on […]
Former Hillsong NYC Pastor Carl Lentz is gearing up for the release of the upcoming FX docuseries The Secrets of Hillsong, which will feature his first interview since being fired from the global megachurch in 2020. According to the show’s summary page, Lentz and his wife, Laura, will speak for the first time since the […]
Peter and Laura Toganivalu announced on Sunday that they are stepping down as Global Pastors of Hillsong Young & Free. Laura is the daughter of Brian and Bobbie Houston. Brian is the founder and former Hillsong Church senior pastor. He stepped down from his role in 2022 when he was criminally charged with allegedly hiding […]
During a question-and-answer session with students from The Master’s Seminary, Pastor John MacArthur warned students not to speak at conferences with female preachers or those who are “blatantly disobedient to Scripture.” According to ChurchLeaders.com, MacArthur spoke on this topic after a student asked him a question about church unity and ministry partnerships. “I was wondering […]
Dr. Robert Jeffress, Jr., the pastor of First Baptist Dallas, was recently honored with a “Friend of Zion” award from Jerusalem’s Friends of Zion Museum. “Well, I’m very concerned at the diminishing support for Israel I’m sensing, especially among younger Christians – and quite frankly, it’s the fault of the church for that. The church […]