Q: What names come to mind when you think of people in your inner circle that you work with? A: I think guys like Matt Chandler, J.D. Greear, a friend of mine outside of a church in North Carolina. Those guys get it as far as I’m concerned. There’s a whole host of people. We... Continue Reading

He drank too much, and his marriage was on the rocks. “My life was falling apart,” Brown said. “That’s where Christ saved me.” Once he started going to church, Brown ran into a preacher who claimed that the Bible predicted that there was oil in Israel. He was skeptical at first but eventually poured millions... Continue Reading

No one is obligated to respond in private to a promotional video that has been put out in public. Jesus said, “If your brother sins against you, go and tell him his fault, between you and him alone” (Matt. 18:15). Rob Bell has not sinned against Justin Taylor or John Piper. This is not a... Continue Reading

The question that changed Michael Izbicki’s life appeared on a psychological exam he took not long after graduating in 2008 near the top of his class at the United States Naval Academy: If given the order, would he launch a missile carrying a nuclear warhead. Ensign Izbicki said he would not — and his reply... Continue Reading

An Afghan Christian living in Kabul who knows Mossa told me today, “We are all happy and thankful. On one hand it is encouraging for us that God has answered our prayers; on the other hand I personally don’t know how much things have improved . . . the government must be more careful in... Continue Reading

Members of Trinity Church in Plymouth — a congregation perhaps best known locally for its monthly food pantry and soup kitchen, and other community outreach efforts in southeastern Michigan — are mourning the loss of their founding pastor. Dr. William C. Moore died Feb. 22, at the age of 67, at the Mayo Clinic in... Continue Reading

Motor Racing Outreach (MRO) provides weekend church services and Bible studies for NASCAR drivers and their teams who can’t get away from the track on race weekends. “[Bayne] was a faithful attendee at all our Nationwide Bible studies. He would sit in the front row. He would get up and read scripture or open in... Continue Reading

Dr. Bernard N. Nathanson, formerly a campaigner for abortion rights who, after experiencing a change of heart in the 1970s became a prominent opponent of abortion and the on-screen narrator of the anti-abortion film “The Silent Scream,” died on Monday at his home in Manhattan. He was 84. The cause was cancer, said his wife,... Continue Reading

“People don’t feel like they have a lot of needs – they don’t feel ‘down and out.’ [So] instead of only focusing on the ‘down and out,’ which can be easy for a lot of churches, how do you start focusing on the ‘up and in’ – those ho have money, who live in the... Continue Reading

President Obama has re-nominated New York pastor Suzan Johnson Cook to fill the long-vacant post of ambassador for international religious freedom, after her nomination failed to make it out of a Senate committee last year. When Cook’s nomination expired, religious freedom groups like Open Doors USA urged the president to “reconsider” his nominee and find... Continue Reading