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United Reformed Church to allow same-sex marriages

09/07/2016 0 Comment

Newly-inducted Moderator of the United Reformed Church Alan Yates began his term of office urging the Church to take up the challenges of a renewed focus on discipleship.

United Reformed Church has voted in favour of allowing its local churches to register for and conduct same-sex marriages.

The decision was taken earlier today at the URC's General Assembly in Southport

The Assembly voted in favour of the proposal by a large majority, 240 votes to 21. It means URC churches wishing to ..

Gossip: the adventure in Christ’s appeal

09/07/2016 0 Comment

Saturday, July 9, 2016
Meditation:
[Jesus:] “For which of you, desiring to build a tower, does not first sit down and count the cost, whether he has enough to complete it? Otherwise, when he has laid a foundation and is not able to finish, all who see it begin to mock him, saying, ‘This man began to build and was not able to finish.’ Or what king, going out to encounter another king in war, will not sit down first and deliberate whether he is able with ten thousand to meet him who comes against..

New England church plants spark Gospel momentum

07/07/2016 0 Comment

Copyright (c) 2016 Baptist Press. Reprinted from Baptist Press (www.baptistpress.com), news service of the Southern Baptist Convention. The original story can be found at http://www.bpnews.net/47182/new-england-church-plants-spark-gospel-momentum

New England church plants spark Gospel momentum

CASTLETON, Vt. (BP) — Moving to New England had never crossed Branden Rogers' mind when he returned to his Mississippi hometown as a pastor after attending seminary. Then his brother moved to..

Leadership, family focus of black church conf.

06/07/2016 0 Comment

Leadership, family focus of black church conf.

RIDGECREST, N.C. (BP) — A concurrent spiritual retreat, leadership development week and a family vacation characterize the Southern Baptist 2016 Black Church Leadership and Family Conference July 11-1..

Cuban believers make disciples in Ecuador

05/07/2016 0 Comment

Cuban believers make disciples in Ecuador

Cuban Baptist missionaries Javier Carballea and his wife Yaima pray with a man looking out his window while they walk through a neighborhood in Montalvo, Ecuador.

4 Steps to Revitalize a Church

04/07/2016 0 Comment

One of the more difficult ministry assignments is when a pastor is appointed to serve an established church that is plateaued or in decline. According to Thom Rainer, 80% of the 400,000 churches in America are plateaued or declining (Breakout Churches). It is a long journey from where these churches are to where God wants them to be. One of the more difficult truths, in fact, is that not everybody in the church will want it to be revitalized. A special set of skills is required to lead a stagnan..

A Man Named Dallas: Top Ten Books #7

01/07/2016 0 Comment

In the late 1980s and early 1990s an intriguing question burst into the evangelical conversation: what is the gospel? Many evangelism ministries were taken back as if saying, “Are you kidding us? We all know what the gospel is. It can be packaged in four steps to God, four laws for salvation, or a simple bridge diagram on a napkin.” Other voices, however, would not be stopped. “That may be your idea of ‘gospel,’” they countered, “but it is certainly not what Jesus and the New Testam..

Mary AND Martha, by Mary Stromer Hanson

01/07/2016 0 Comment

Mary Stromer Hanson is a recent graduate of Denver Seminary with an MA in NT biblical studies. She is a longtime member of CBE and active in the Denver chapter. She is the author of The New Perspective on Mary and Martha: Do Not Preach Mary and Martha Again Until You Read This! and Bold Girls Speak: Girls of the Bible Come Alive both published by Wipf and Stock. Mary blogs regularly at Mary’s Sword.
Used with permission.
Mary and Martha continue to stir up heated dispute in the church, but their..

What the “Gospel of Jesus’s Wife” Teaches Us about Manuscript Evidence

17/06/2016 0 Comment

Last week, I taught for two days at City Church’s Institute, wherein my church offers an opportunity each summer for church members (mainly college students) to learn theology, church history, cultural engagement, etc. along with a church internship and a mission trip (or two).
One morning, I taught on the development and authority of Scripture. My lecture started with general and special revelation, and then moved into oral tradition and eventually all the way to the for..

Archbishop of Canterbury Responds to Orlando Massacre

13/06/2016 0 Comment

In the wake of the appalling attack in Orlando, I’ve released this joint statement with the Archbishop of York John Sentamu:
“After Sunday’s attack in Orlando, as Christians we must speak out in support of LGBTI people, who have become the latest group to be so brutally targeted by the forces of evil. We must pray, weep with those affected, support the bereaved, and love without qualification.
The obligation to object to these acts of persecution, and to support tho..