Three Out of Four Christians Now Believe in the Prosperity Gospel
A rising number of Christians are leaning into prosperity gospel theology. A new study from Lifeway Research reveals that 76 percent of Christians now believe God wants them to prosper financially....
View ArticleFive Uncomfortable Issues The Church Needs to Talk About
It has been said that the Church is not a museum of saints, but a hospital for sinners. Yet, most of us would much rather pretend to be a saint on display than call for an ambulance. Week after week,...
View ArticlePope Francis Calls Out U.S. Faith Leaders Who Place Ideology Over Faith
Pope Francis is speaking out against the “backwardness” of some Christian leaders in the American Church, arguing they have replaced their faith with an ideology. During a private meeting with...
View ArticleIf Everyone in Your Church Is Just Like You, You Have a Problem
It’s been said that the most segregated time in America is Sunday morning. How sad is that? We go and church shop, looking for buildings full of like-minded individuals who dress like us, look like us,...
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Study: White Christians Think “Seeing Racism Where It Doesn’t Exist” Is a...
A new survey from Pew Research has found that there is still a major division in America when it comes to seeing racism and discrimination. In April, Pew asked whether the bigger problem regarding...
View ArticleFour Signs It’s Time To Find a New Church
I’ve been attending the same church for about seven years—it’s the church I started going to in college, and it really helped me grow spiritually during that time. But in the last year or so, there...
View ArticleWhat Churches Get Wrong About the Holy Spirit
The first time I entered a charismatic conference as a teenager, I was stunned. As a pastor’s kid who had grown up in a small, moderately conservative church, the sheer volume of people in the room...
View ArticleDo I Have to Agree With My Pastors?
For four years, my family attended a hyper-Calvinist church. It was Calvinism on steroids. I disagreed with a lot of what they believed, and one point in particular was too much for me to swallow. They...
View ArticleWhat We Get Wrong About Evangelism
I was terrified at the idea of evangelizing. So stepping into a major-required Evangelism and Spiritual Formation class was not at all what I wanted to do. Previous encounters—or more like “failed...
View ArticleWhat We Get Wrong about Worship
Occasionally, someone asks me for a worship song recommendation, or I need someone to listen to a song for some reason. When that happens, I do what any good person does: go to YouTube. I can find a...
View ArticleFlorida Schools Can’t Teach Black History, So Churches Are Starting To
To counter Florida’s recent education changes that misrepresent or omit African American history in public school curriculum, Black pastors and their congregations are teaching their own Black history...
View ArticleTime Magazine Recognizes Sarah Jakes Roberts in ‘100 Next’ List for 2023
Alongside entertainers, leaders, advocates and more, Sarah Jakes Roberts, a pastor, author and entrepreneur has been named in Time magazine’s annual “100 Next” list. Along with her husband Touré,...
View ArticleDo Denominational Differences Really Matter?
For far too many years, Christians have been asking a, quite frankly, pointless question: “Which denomination is best?” I assume they’re asking whose got it right, or the most right, I should say. But...
View ArticleHow Should Christian Leaders Handle Their Influence?
Money, sex and power are the trinity of age-old temptations. But we have few resources for understanding what power is and how it operates. Personal finances and sexual integrity are regular topics in...
View ArticleThree Ways to Support a Friend Who’s Returning to Church
The last few times I’ve been at church, I wait for acquaintances to ask, “Where have you been?” It’s an understandable question. Years ago, our family went abroad for a half-year. After our sabbatical...
View ArticleFour Ways the Modern Church Looks Nothing Like the Early Church
I often hear Christians say that we should be more like the early church. And I must admit, I’ve been one of those Christians. But if we linger on how this would look, I wonder how many of us would...
View ArticleFrom F.R.O.G. to P.U.S.H.: The Secret Code of 2000s Youth Group Acronyms
Step into a time machine, and let’s zip back to the 2000s — an era where your Nokia brick phone was for Snake II and T9 texting, Myspace was your digital haven, and youth group was the epicenter of...
View ArticleKat Von D on Church: “I’m Seeking More Traditionalism. I Don’t Want to Go To...
Tattoo artist and reality TV star Kat Von D has recently expressed her shift towards traditional Christianity and is opening up about finding a church home that prioritizes traditional practices. “I’m...
View ArticleShould More Churches Embrace Tradition?
Last week, Kat Von D, the tattoo and makeup mogul who is speaking up about her newfound conversion to Christianity, shared that her church is not what you might expect. Instead of a large church with...
View ArticleGenerosity Is the Mark of True Gratitude
It’s easy to be selfish about Thanksgiving. You see it a lot, this year especially. People don’t want to socially distance. They want to get together, eat a big meal and watch football. That’s...
View ArticleI Disagree with My Pastor. Should I Say Something?
Obviously, not all Christians agree on everything. From worship song choice to who should be running the Christmas pageant to what should this year’s retreat theme be, there’s plenty of disagreements...
View ArticleWhat Would Happen if Christians Actually Tithed?
The church of today is not great at at giving. This isn’t exactly news, but it is a statistical fact: Tithers make up only 10 to 25 percent of a normal congregation. Only 5 percent of the U.S. tithes,...
View ArticleFormer Hillsong Pastor Brian Houston Is Starting A New Church
Brian Houston, the founder and former global senior pastor of Sydney’s Hillsong Church, announced that he and his wife Bobbie will be launching a new church next year. “Bobbie and I are starting a...
View ArticleWhose Job Is It to Take Care of the Poor?
Whenever you see a left-leaning Christian talking to a conservative about poverty, it turns into a question of who should be taking care of the poor. I found myself in a debate about this the other...
View ArticleHow Gen Z is Shaping the Church
From a purely mathematical standpoint, the Church has reason to be concerned about reaching the next generation. The most recent numbers say around 48 percent of Gen Z — people born after 1996 —...
View ArticleI’m Not Alarmed By Religious ‘Nones.’ You Shouldn’t Be, Either
At the end of the day, I’m not too alarmed by the religious “nones.” The “nones” — people who reply “nothing in particular” or “none” when asked for their religious affiliation — are a hot topic in...
View ArticleHere’s How to Live Stream Passion Conference for Free
The annual Passion Conference kicks off this week, Jan. 3 through 5, at the Mercedes-Benz Arena in Atlanta, Georgia. Joining founder and pastor Louie Giglio on stage this year are guest speakers...
View ArticleThe Real Reasons We Don’t Invite Friends to Church
“Happy new year! Be sure to invite a friend to church next week!” Those seem to be familiar words in church around this time of year and just about every time of year when resolutions are made,...
View ArticleJennie Allen: Gen Z Has a ‘Fresh and New’ Hunger For God
Amid the myriad of digital distractions, a significant number of Gen Zers are increasingly drawn to God and the Church, seeking authenticity and deeper, more meaningful spiritual connections. In many...
View ArticleThe YOLO Generation Got It Wrong. It’s Time for the YALF Generation.
Only four experiences in my life have fully lived up to expectations. That’s probably because I tend to overhype things. (“Easily excitable” is what I think the doctor wrote on the Ritalin...
View ArticleDon’t Forget, There’s a Lot Right With the Church, Too
It’s way too easy to find blogs, articles and books on “what’s wrong with the church,” about the ways she has fallen short of what God has called her to do and be, how she has strayed to chase idols...
View ArticleWhat the Idea of ‘Walking with Jesus’ Can Teach Us About Community
“Therefore, as you received Christ Jesus the Lord, so walk in him, rooted and built up in him and established in the faith, just as you were taught, abounding in thanksgiving” (Col. 2:6). Christians...
View ArticleFour Bible Verses That Are Constantly Used Out of Context
We have all seen those black and white Dust Bowl photographs. When we see snapshots of tired farmers looking on in despair as their whole livelihoods rise up and disappear in clouds of dust, we face...
View ArticleThe Prayers of Black History Makers
Black history is a history of prayer. Beginning in the woods and marshes on the edges of plantations across the deep south, enslaved Black Americans secretly gathered in worship, free from the...
View ArticleTim Ross: Why The Church Needs to Be Disrupted
Author Wendell Berry once wrote, “If change is to come, it will come from the margins … It was the desert, not the temple, that gave us the prophets.” Change is something most people try to avoid. We...
View ArticleWhat Denomination Is the Simpsons’ Church?
“I’m not a bad guy!” Homer Simpsons once declared. “I work hard and I love my kids. So why should I spend half my Sunday hearing about how I’m going to Hell?” Not the most charitable read on church but...
View ArticleThe Problem With Aggressive ‘Billboard Evangelism’
Yesterday, I drove by a church with a billboard that said, “Discover the bread of life or you’re toast.” It’s a threat: If you don’t live a particular way, you will be punished, and harshly punished,...
View ArticleWhy I Can’t Stand My Church (and I’m the Pastor)
I have to warn you, this might be a tough read because I’m going to lay it all out there and share, as the pastor of a church, why I can’t stand my church… but please don’t stop at the first three...
View ArticleWhere the Word ‘Christian’ Really Comes From
“Christian” — few words in the English language carry as much baggage as this one. It’s a loaded label, to be sure, but what’s interesting is that Jesus never actually gave a name to His followers. The...
View ArticleTye Tribbett Was on ‘The Breakfast Club’ This Morning And It Raised Some...
Grammy Award-winning gospel artist and Orlando-based pastor Tye Tribbett stopped by The Breakfast Club radio show this morning, and the conversation took an interesting turn. Tribbett gave a passionate...
View ArticleAfter 18-month Investigation, the DOJ Files No Charges Against the Southern...
The U.S. Department of Justice has concluded a year-and-a-half-long investigation into the Southern Baptist Convention’s lead administration to determine whether officials were criminally responsible...
View ArticleSix Churches Doing Things Differently
If you’ve heard it once, you’ve heard it a hundred times: “We don’t do church the same old way here.” It seems to be a statement memorized by most aspiring church planters and trumpeted with pride from...
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A Biblical Case for Awesome Beards
I recently spent a year of my life on a 37,000-mile prayer pilgrimage around the world. As I trekked around our giant planet, I discovered an entire world of interesting prayer traditions—silent...
View ArticleSteven Furtick Facing Backlash Because Elevation Church Won’t Use Words Like...
Elevation Church and pastor Steven Furtick are facing controversy after a recent interview with a senior staff member revealed the church doesn’t use words like “resurrection,” “Calvary” or the “blood...
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Christians Aren’t the Only Ones Not Going to Services Anymore
Sadly, it turns out that Christians aren’t the only religious group experiencing low church attendance. The percentage of American adults who regularly attend services for nearly every major religion...
View ArticleCan We Truly Know God?
I grew up in churches where we never, ever ended the worship service without having an altar call. And these weren’t just “come forward to make a decision for Jesus Christ” altar calls. These were...
View ArticleWhy I Still Go To Church — Especially When I Don’t Feel Like It
I have the same memories as many evangelicals who grew up in church at the same time I did: felt-board Bible stories, Sunday school donuts, praise chorus lyrics on overhead projectors. Even before I...
View ArticleMark Driscoll Was Kicked Off Stage At a Men’s Conference For Calling Out Male...
Mark Driscoll is going viral after being kicked off stage at a Christian men’s conference for how he expressed concern about the conference’s opening act. The 2024 Stronger Men’s Conference at James...
View ArticleHow Do I Know A Church Is the Right Fit For Me?
“If I wanted to go to a nightclub, I would go to a nightclub!” my great aunt commented after attending a service at the fastest growing mega-church in the country. “The only thing they didn’t do was...
View ArticleMark Driscoll Apologizes For That Viral Men’s Conference Rebuke
Mark Driscoll has apologized for how he expressed concern about an opening act performance at a men’s conference he was speaking at last weekend. Videos went viral of Driscoll being cut off for saying...
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