It’s probably a dream scenario for most churches in this economy.  A sudden, unexpected gift of $70,000 just shows up in the collection plate.
The 25 member Covenant Life Worship Center in Haslett, Michigan, is in just this position.  But they’re stuck in an interesting predicament.  The money comes in the form of a winning lottery [...]

As a Christian in a mosque, I wondered how Muslims would be treated in a church. Are churches open for visits by Muslims?

(Quick Thought is a new feature, providing a quick post for you to respond to with your first reactions and thoughts.  The goal is to keep comments short, too.  Maybe a couple sentences but no more than 100 words or so.  Let’s see where the conversation goes!)
“Pre-existing conditions accepted.”
I saw that on a spam fax [...]

It’s encouraging to see the number of churches in my home country that are getting directly involved in projects overseas. For them, it’s not enough to fund a missionary and send them to do the dirty work. Churches now want to visit the missions they support and get their hands dirty and see first [...]

I just had an inquiry from the Religion Editor at a major American weekly news magazine. She wants to know our take on the phrase “followers of Jesus,” particularly as an alternative to the term “Christian.” 
I see it on Facebook regularly, when some of my Christian friends describe their religious affiliation with a variety of terms that [...]

My grandmother passed away last month at a hospice in Portland, Oregon. Nanna Mary was always petite. But in the final weeks of her life she was tiny, a shrunken version of the vigorous little English fighter who had served in the Royal Women’s Army in World War II and went on to travel the [...]

I had not heard of this letter before today, but in light of recent happenings with the United States Wall Street it seems extra interesting.
Here’s the first part of the letter:
Read the whole letter and make sure to scroll to the bottom to see the list of signatories.
As the Church of the Lord in what [...]

A while back Trevin Wax at Kingdom People wrote about being a missionary in Romania:

The more Romanian I understood, the more I learned about Romania and the Romanian people. The more I knew the language, the more I heard or witnessed things that I didn’t like. My opinion of Romanians began to turn sour. Several [...]

How long does it take someone to decide to follow Christ?
Here’s a brief comment from a Reclaiming the Mission post (found via ekklesia) that I found interesting:
I argue that a conversion of a post-Christendom “pagan,” who has had little to no exposure to the language and story of Christ in Scripture, requires five years of [...]

The BBC is reporting that 22,000 have died and 41,000 are missing from Cyclone Nargis which hit the coast of Burma a few days ago.
I found this video of the storm via youtube.com:

Andy posted about this over at the blog on Gospel.com. Read his whole article by clicking here:
It’s difficult to fathom that much death [...]