The Church of God International Youth & Discipleship Department is pioneering a new ministry that uses “Charity Runs” as a way to help churches impact orphans without taking money out of the local church.

The City of Houston has demanded pastors turn over all their speeches, presentations and other materials related their comments on the Houston Equal Rights Ordinance. (HERO)

Alliance Defending Freedom attorneys filed a federal lawsuit and a motion for a temporary restraining order Friday to stop officials in Coeur d’Alene, Idaho, from forcing two ordained Christian ministers to perform wedding ceremonies for same-sex couples.

Marian Evans, who wrote under the pen name George Eliot, described the beauty of friendship: “Oh the comfort, the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person; having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words but to pour them all out together, knowing that a faithful friend will take and sift them, keeping what is worth keeping, and then with the breath of kindness blow the rest away.”

Church of God USA Missions, at the recent ONE: Leadership Conference, unveiled a new twelve-month local church evangelism plan.

“The five Houston Pastors subpoenaed to turn over their sermons and communications with parishioners are on the forefront of what may be the most important struggle for civil rights of this generation,” said Lutheran Pastor Rev. C.J. Conner.

When DJ Roker arrived in Memphis from the Bahamas, starting a life-giving church was the farthest thing from his mind. The media and marketing consultant, turned life-coach and spiritual teacher, said he became disillusioned and discouraged by what he was seeing among many of the ministries he had supported.

“Beloved, I pray that you may prosper in all things and be in health just as your soul prospers” (3 John 2, NKJV).

Faith Driven Consumer™, the group that emerged on the national stage last year with its #IStandWithPhil campaign that played a leading role in Phil Robertson’s return to Duck Dynasty, continues to serve as an advocate for more than 41 million consumers who spend $2 trillion annually.