This past Sunday I asked my worship team a question: “How can we better connect with our congregation in 2016?”

Dr. R. Lamar Vest, Dr. Bryan Cutshall, and Bill Isaacs have partnered to create a one-day training experience for pastors and local church leaders called “The Healthy Church,” and the first of several such conferences recently took place in Illinois, according to a report by State Administrative Bishop Dennis Page.

I have been writing on trends in churches for two decades. I certainly don’t have a perfect record with my predictions, but my overall record is pretty good.

TrueSearch.today is a new search engine that hopes to encourage the Christian community to actively search for and support Christian and family oriented websites and businesses.

Children who have been abused, those living in poverty, foster kids aging out of a broken system, and those who don’t have enough to eat are easy targets for those who wish to misuse them. You want to help, but you don’t know where to begin. What can one person possibly do that will make a difference?

January 8, 2016–Nashville, TN—Church of God North American administrative bishops and their wives are gathered in Nashville, Tennessee today for the second day of a Leadership Conference at the site of the upcoming 76th International General Assembly, GA16.

TrueSearch.today is a new search engine that hopes to encourage the Christian community to actively search for and support Christian and family oriented websites and businesses.

Alabama Chief Justice Roy Moore issued an administrative order today saying, “Alabama probate judges have a ministerial duty not to issue any marriage license contrary to the Alabama Sanctity of Marriage Amendment.”

Christian television channel NRB Network has rebranded and changed its name to NRBTV. The channel, which began broadcasting on DIRECTV on December 21, 2005, presents biblically-faithful programming from well-respected Christian pastors, apologists, and teachers including Ravi Zacharias, John MacArthur, R.C. Sproul, Todd Friel, Kay Arthur, David Jeremiah, and Frank Turek.