According to FoxNews, members of a Florida church are praying for the recovery of their pastor’s daughter who was accidentally shot in the head at the church on Sunday. A small group of church members were gathered at the hospital to pray for 20-year-old Hannah Grace Kelley, who was shot...

This church believes they raised a man from the dead. What do you...

I think you’ll find this VERY insightful… from David Hayward, the...

Baptist Press reports that in 2010, the Morristown church learned that $147,000 presumably sent to the Lottie Moon Christmas Offering for International Missions had not been received by the International Mission Board. Further investigation revealed that five payments (approximately $120,000)...

Andy Stanley is not speaking at our next online conference. In fact, neither is anyone else you’ve heard of… yet. We’re happy to invite you to Leadership Network’s next online conference called “groundSWELL”.  The topic is the future of the church; and the...

In what may be its most significant religious liberty decision in two decades, the Supreme Court on Wednesday for the first time recognized a “ministerial exception” to employment discrimination laws, saying that churches and other religious groups must be free to choose and dismiss...

My friend and fellow church world agitator Geoff Surratt has a really great series he’s doing at his blog this week called “Five Scary Trends that could Shipwreck the Church”. He started the series yesterday with his first scary trend:  Multisite.  Today’s scary...

My friend and fellow church world agitator Geoff Surratt has a really great series he’s doing at his blog this week called “Five Scary Trends that could Shipwreck the Church”. He started the series yesterday with his first scary trend:  Multisite.  Funny… from one of...

  According to Fox News, a Michigan pastor who says he’s doing everything he can to reach out to people who don’t feel comfortable at a traditional house of worship has opened a tattoo parlor inside his church. Rev. Steve Bentley of The Bridge, a church located inside a Flint...

Happy New Years! You’re welcome.  Here’s to a great...

Pastor Maurice Johnson of Winners Church in Queen is using public kissing contests during services to help teach married couples how to keep romance alive in their marriages. His Sunday sermons have been described as the sexiest in town… At the peak of the pastor’s sermon, four...

How do you feel about this song? I find the message to be off-putting. We are working to share the good news about Jesus with the whole world. Material like this only widens the gap between Christ and the world that he died to save. The mall does not define my relationship with Christ....

You know a rut when you see it.  It’s easy for all churches to get caught in ruts.  Steve Caton over at ChurchCommunityMatters identifies three ruts that he sees many churches face: 1) The Assimilation Rut. Churches often develop a good assimilation path but don’t have the right...

A California church has started a new worship venue specifically targeting California’s medical marijuana community. Marijuana is, after all, California’s largest cash crop; bringing in as much as $14 billion in sales each year into the state’s economy. “There’s...

Because the first time around wasnt grueling enough, right?After the real jury found Casey Anthony not guilty of murdering her 2-year-old daughter Caylee, a church in Cleveland held their own court, staging a mock retrial of the case during their Sunday service. Read more here Cleveland...