An atheist group has threatened to sue a school in West Columbus, S.C., for allowing its students to participate in Operation Christmas Child, a program that blesses needy children at Christmastime.

Franklin Graham, son of evangelist Billy Graham, said Friday that his father’s health has worsened in the past few days.

Christmas will be merrier for Church of God career missionaries in 2013.

For the word of God is alive and active. Sharper than any double-edged sword, it penetrates even to dividing soul and spirit, joints and marrow; it judges the thoughts and attitudes of the heart” (Heb. 4:12, NIV).

President Nelson Mandela paid a heavy price to stand against apartheid while campaigning for human justice and human dignity. His message still resonates though his weary, battle worn body has gone the way of those gone before him.

Have you ever seen pictures of the people in African villages washing clothes, bathing and drinking from the same filthy water source? Day after day, they’re consuming dirty, diseased water, and they are getting sick and dying.

Tony Scott, a Church of God pastor in the Toledo, Ohio area, recently made headlines for his efforts at racial reconciliation. A reporter with the Toledo Blade recently penned the following article about Pastor Scott and The Church on Strayer.

Norman Rockwell’s Saying Grace sold on Wednesday for more than $46 million, double its high pre-sale estimate, setting a new auction record for an American painting, Sotheby’s said.

Lee Grady believes the time for preaching styles like TBN’s Paul Crouch has passed. Among the legendary pioneers of Christian broadcasting—a list that includes Pat Robertson, Oral Roberts and Jim Bakker—no one worked harder to establish Christian TV stations around the world than Paul Crouch Sr. In spite of constant controversies over his network’s content and finances, the Trinity Broadcasting Network that Crouch founded in 1973 has grown to be the largest and most profitable religious television enterprise in the world.