Megachurch Pastor Laments “Fast Food” Church

With the focus on numbers (attendance), building sizes, media reach, etc., I’ve often wondered if the American church culture has sold its soul for worldly success.  Usually, my answer is a qualified yes. Seems that I’m not the only one who’s thinking so. Megachurch pastor Brady Boyd asks readers the tough question that has plagued many pastors and congregations alike, touching upon a rather...

Michele Bachmann: God’s Calling Me To Run

First it was Sarah Palin‘s Christian Reconstructionist “Fire in my belly“.  Now Michele Bachmann says that she’s been “called” to run for President. In a recent interview on Iowa Public Television, which is ironic in itself based on her opposition to things like that, she was asked the following question: Henderson: You recently referenced your Christian faith. Former...

Muslims Rush To Restore Christian Church

Stories like this keep coming out of Egypt, where only 10% of the population is Christian, yet Muslims and Christians are standing up for each other, looking out for each other, and bearing each others’ burdens. Mohammed Fathi worked his brush gently over an icon of Virgin Mary and baby Jesus, removing soot from its surface inside a church gutted in an attack by Islamist militants this month. “It...

Iranian Court Acquits 11 Christians

In April, 11 Christians from the Church of Iran, part of the house church movement within the country, were arrested following communion on charges of “acting against the order of the country” for drinking communion wine.  On Friday, they were acquitted. Eleven members of one of Iran’s largest evangelical house church movements, who were charged with ‘action against the order of the country’...

Harold Camping Has Lost Christ

In case you didn’t know, Harold Camping of Family Radio is the guy behind all the Rapture paranoia.  Many theologians, including Greg Laurie and W. Robert Godfrey, president and professor of church history at Westminster Seminary California, are standing up and calling Camping out on his hysteria. “He (Harold Camping) is wrong,” evangelist Greg Laurie from Southern California stated simply on...