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“I don’t feel burned out, but I am realizing my limitations.” In 2001 Eugene Cho and his wife, Minhee, founded Quest Church, an urban, multicultural, and multigenerational community in Seattle. He began his first year as a pastor without a salary, working as a janitor at Barnes & Noble. It was a hard beginning, butContinue reading “Eugene Cho: Why I Am Stepping Down as Pastor of Quest Church”

We need to remove the personal and corporate barriers that keep God from moving freely in and through us. We live in an ever-changing world in which the church seems to be struggling to keep up. Our churches are aging and losing their relevance in our post-Christian, postmodern, and pluralistic world. Our children grow upContinue reading “Renewing Your Church: Removing Barriers for New Life”

African officials pled with faith healers to let doctors treat the latest fatal outbreak. The tight restrictions put in place to stop the latest flare-up of Ebola in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) go against the typical rhythms of church life, where Christians regularly gather together, partake in sacraments, and lay hands onContinue reading “Ebola Deaths Rise As Patients Turn to Miracles Over Medicine”

The more we can mobilize our young people, the better. Ed:Tell us more about Together 2018. What is it, and how can people get involved? Nick: We believe there's a generation, with 18-20-year-olds at its center, that is experiencing a new movement of Jesus. So, we started to call Together the “Together Generation.” Together ’16Continue reading “One-on-One with Nick Hall on Faith in the Next Generation, Part 2”

The influential leader kept teaching—and learning—homiletics over his 70-year career. Preacher James Earl Massey, whose pastoral cadence went out over radio waves and across dozens of seminary chapels during his seven decades in ministry, died Sunday at age 88. Massey is remembered as one of the most influential voices in the Church of God movement—aContinue reading “Died: James Earl Massey, the Church of God’s ‘Prince of Preachers’”

One of the central rights of the constitution is freedom of expression, particularly as it relates to religion. Today the Supreme Court ruled in favor of the National Institute of Family and Life Advocates (NIFLA) in a case likely to have significant impact in debates on abortion and free speech. The Court agreed with NIFLAContinue reading “Stopping Government Overreach: SCOTUS Rules Against California and for the Free Speech of Pro-Life Alternatives”

Clinics’ free speech rights trump an “unduly burdensome” state disclosure requirement. Pro-life clinics offering pregnant women alternatives to abortion won a major free speech victory today. The Supreme Court ruled 5-4 to block a California law requiring pregnancy centers post referrals to state-funded abortion providers and birth control resources, forcing them to promote services thatContinue reading “Supreme Court: California Can’t Force Pro-Life Pregnancy Centers to Promote Abortion”

Christians should be ready to care for those in the aftermath of divorce without making their pain worse. I walked a dear friend through the grief of a dying marriage last year. After less than two years enjoying what she thought was a wonderful marriage, she discovered the lies and the multiple infidelities her husbandContinue reading “How to Help a Friend Through a Dying Marriage”

God has been stirring and the church has been uniting. Ed: Nick, tell me a little bit about what you’ve been doing lately. Nick Hall: For the last several years, we’ve been in the middle of a city-wide movement in the Twin Cities. Churches and leaders have been coming together across the Twin Cities. We'veContinue reading “One-on-One with Nick Hall on Faith in the Next Generation, Part 1”

The horror writer is no fan of organized religion, but his stories don’t shy away from belief in things unseen. Say what you will about Stephen King, but the man has staying power. Last year’s Dark Tower may have flopped, but the big screen adaptation of It raked in oodles of cash (part two isContinue reading “Stephen King Wrestles with the Divine”