Shortly after the Declaration of Independence, Haynes wrote “Liberty Further Extended,” possibly the most powerful argument against slavery from the Revolutionary era. In the 1780s, Haynes began a thirty year pastoral career in Vermont, and was likely the first African American to pastor a largely white congregation.

And I think that is the one thing that is most amazing. How Christianity has found its way in every part of the world. And nothing to me is more touching than to see someone that is lost in the world, come to Christ and have a transformed moment. You see that so often in... Continue Reading

There was a spoiled brat in the New Testament, too. He had lots of money and an outsized sense of his own merit. (Did his parents tell him he was special from his youth?) This young man came to Jesus with a question about salvation. The Scripture says that Jesus took him seriously and “looking at him, loved him.” (Mark 10:21)

Could it be that one of the reasons why so many people in our churches are not praying with zeal or giving their resources away or going with the gospel into their neighborhoods or the nations, could it be because they've not been born again? Born-again believers don't have to be cajoled to obey the Great Commission. Born-again believers are compelled to accomplish the Great Commission. And born again pastors are charged with leading them on that mission.

Perhaps Platt’s having raised this issue from within his denominational ranks will lead many to read and study the issue more and not only substitute a more biblical and sound practice in their own pulpits and ministries, but that in doing so that the Sinner's prayer may in time be set aside just as the likes of things like the “Four Spiritual Laws”, etc.

It was exciting to talk face to face with women I have communicated with online from places like Dubai, Canada, and Tennessee. Fellow bloggers united as we recognized each other from our pictures plastered all over the internet. And yet, there was also an unsettling, blaring reality that I couldn’t shake. Even though 3,800 Christian... Continue Reading

“The biggest need right now for the firefighters are eye drops and baby powder,” said Sullivan who just relocated to Colorado Springs. “But, we’ve got churches, schools and businesses opening their doors in various ways. Either as shelters, prayer centers or just a place to re-group with your family and friends.”

"Part of the problem with evangelicalism is that the power, money and the control is typically more with an older guard and you have to be careful," he said. "The harshest way of putting it," he added, is "when you care more about the system than the truth, it's the problem the Pharisees had in the Gospels, and you want to protect the system."

When Belz is away from her family she tries to find similarities that bring her closer to home. They are what make traveling enjoyable. She calls these similarities “bowls of cornflakes” remembering a time when she interviewed rebel leader John Garang over two bowls of cornflakes

Paige Benton Brown is like the gospel on drugs. Now I have a better picture of what those at Pentecost must have been like when accused of being drunk. I’ll have what Paige is having, please.