Under the bright stage lights, Daniel Staddon, 18, a home-schooler from Salem, W.Va., squeezed his eyes shut as he recited verse after verse from the Bible at the inaugural National Bible Bee.  He recited the first 20 verses of the fifth chapter of Ephesians and the 21 verses of Psalm 145 in the tie-breaker round, [...]

I have so much to be thankful for, and tonight, I’ll lead my congregation in a sweet time of sharing.  Our annual Thanksgiving Eve service is a highlight of our church year as people come prepared to share what they are most thankful to the Lord for.  There are some things, however, that I’m thankful [...]

It was a difficult Sunday here at the Potter home.  My son, Taylor, and I watched helplessly as the hapless Kansas City Chiefs defeated our beloved Pittsburgh Steelers.  Granted, it was a road game, but if you’ve ever seen the Pittsburgh Steelers play a road game, it’s not uncommon to see thousands of fans waving [...]

Get a load of this: World Entertainment News Network reports that Mel Gibson is closing the doors of his Catholic church to the public in a bid to prevent unwanted visitors from leaking stories to the press.
The man who brought Jesus to the general public through The Passion of the Christ is keeping the general [...]

Ever heard of LifeChurch.tv?   It’s an Oklahoma-based cyber-church that offers online church services to people all over the country and the world.  Craig Groeschel is the senior pastor of LifeChurch.tv, and under his leadership, it has become one of the country’s biggest multi-campus churches.
There are over fifty weekend worship experiences at thirteen different locations [...]

Kurt Salierno is a man who has dedicated his life to living with and ministering to the poor and needy in his corner of the world. Since 1977, he has been involved in working with the poor and homeless across the country.  Kurt walks the streets of Atlanta developing relationships with the men and women [...]

Pastor Ted Haggard is a man who once had the ear of White House staffers and lobbied Congress for conservative U.S. Supreme Court justices.  Back in 1985, he began holding a weekly Bible study in his home that eventually grew into a 14,000 member church.  Then in 2006, it all came crashing down as he [...]

Would you EVER attend a church that does this?
When the Rev. Tom Eggebeen took over as interim pastor at Covenant Presbyterian Church three years ago, he looked around and knew it needed a jump start. Most of his worshippers were in their 60s and attendance had bottomed out and the once-vibrant church.
So Eggebeen came up [...]

In honor of the Stryper concert in Albuquerque tonight, I’m re-posting this from August 25th.
Twenty-five years ago, I was a 14 year-old, pimply-faced kid struggling through the pubescent journey.  I loved food (couldn’t eat enough), loved girls (I hadn’t really noticed them until that year), loved music (had a monster stereo system in my bedroom), [...]

Jim Stevens said he’s not particularly religious and is clueless about why an image resembling Jesus Christ keeps appearing on his pick-up. Stevens said nearly every morning, an image that looks to him like the face of Jesus Christ has appeared in the condensation on the driver’s side window of his Isuzu truck.
Stevens said when [...]