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Coronavirus and the Church: CT’s Latest News and Advice
Here are CT’s latest articles on how churches around the world are responding to the COVID-19 outbreak and how Christians can best be faithful in this season of coronavirus.
We also offer translations of our Martin Luther reflection—which a Singaporean Christian leader...
December 31, 1969
When Following God into Dark Places Reveals the Darkness in Your Own Heart
How shepherding others through messy situations brings our own sin and insufficiency to the surface.
Over the past two decades, I’ve read a number of Christian books that make the case for walking alongside people in need and offer a framework for how to do it. Some have been written by...
December 31, 1969
Moving from a Country Club to a Commissioned Church, Part 2
True church growth transfers people from the domain of darkness into the glorious light of Christ.
On Thursday, we looked at the first three shifts to experience transformation in our churches. Today, I’ll share the final three.
Shift 4: The church must make the shift from swapping members...
December 31, 1969
What Edith Blumhofer Taught Me on Writing About Strong Women
A tribute to a pathbreaking Pentecostal historian who also knew the value of a cannoli to a grad student.
When I started writing my biography of Charismatic evangelist Kathryn Kuhlman, I went to Edith Blumhofer for advice. Edith wrote a masterful biography of Pentecostal superstar Aimee Semple...
December 31, 1969
A Different Harvest
Harvesting requires intentional investment with those who, often on the surface, have no interest in the good news of Jesus, or at least in the cultural assumptions they have about Him and His church.
The biblical concept of “harvest” seems to have fundamentally shifted in the minds...
December 31, 1969
Justification Isn’t Just About Me
The Cross calls me to cross the pew.
Folks will use and abuse you if you let them. Statements like this were common in my childhood home. I grew up in a family that kept to itself. Our relationships with outsiders were mainly casual; we children were cautioned against anything deeper. People...
December 31, 1969
Greet One Another with a Fervent Fist-Bump? What Churches are Doing in Response to Coronavirus
Often churches wonder what other churches are doing-- here's a sampling.
On March 6, I tweeted: “If you are a pastor or church leader, what are you saying/doing regarding Coronavirus this weekend during worship? Have you sent out any emails? How are you encouraging your church?...
December 31, 1969
Eugene Cho Named President of Hunger Advocacy Org
In his new role at Bread for the World, the former Quest Church pastor urges evangelical involvement, saying, “The great commission is not a competitor to the great commandment.”
Bread for the World, a prominent Christian advocacy group dedicated to ending hunger, has elected Seattle pastor...
December 31, 1969
The Old Testament Twins We’ve Forgotten
Jacob and Esau get all the attention. Yet it’s another pair of brothers who reveal the heart of the biblical story.
There are two pairs of twins in Genesis, but most of us only notice the first. Jacob and Esau get the headlines: the smooth wheeler-dealer who becomes the father of the...
December 31, 1969
Ex-Christian Post Publisher, Bible College Convicted in $35M Fraud Scheme
The money laundering case left a Christian media network out of business and Olivet University owing $1.25 million.
Fifteen months after investigators uncovered a $35 million scheme involving the former publishers of Newsweek and The Christian Post, a Christian college, and a tech vendor, the...
December 31, 1969
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