Leadership Journal, a publication of Christianity Today, announced last week several new expansions of the award-winning resource for pastors and church leaders. The changes include an important shift from a quarterly to a monthly issue, a new, improved iPad app to access issue content, and more web exclusive content than ever, including videos, cartoons, and infographics, at www.LeadershipJournal.net

The Privacy For All Students (PFAS) coalition recently announced they have submitted over 620,000 signatures to elections officials to qualify a statewide referendum allowing voters to reject the co-ed bathroom law (AB 1266) that was enacted by the Legislature and signed into law by Governor Jerry Brown. The coalition needs 504,760 valid voter signatures to qualify the referendum. Once validated by elections officials, the law will be suspended until voters decide whether to approve or reject it.

Church of God World Missions Director Tim Hill recently shared the miraculous year of generosity toward missions in the Church of God. He delivered his comments at a recent gathering of state administrative bishops at the Church of God International Offices and also in the latest edition of Save Our World (SOW) magazine.

Unless you experienced some significant event—like birth or marriage—on Nov. 2, it’s very likely the day passed as just another day of the year. However, on that date 96 years ago, Jews around the world had cause for celebration and breathed a collective sigh of relief following decades of political and diplomatic activism—and centuries of prayer—to reestablish a Jewish homeland in the land of Israel.

It has been said that one of our great purposes in life is to give birth to ourselves. We have to find the purpose for which God created us and allow Him to give birth to it. Along the way, we must be very careful about what we allow to define us.

God’s Not Dead, a film about the existence of God and defending one’s faith, is making waves on Facebook. The movie’s trailer, posted on the popular social networking site, has racked up 6.5 million views, 1.4 million likes and has been shared 720,981 times.

Congregations from multiple denominations, including the Church of God, have teamed with the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association (BGEA) to sponsor MY HOPE AMERICA—what may very well be Graham’s final personal mass crusade.

There are many things that a grandfather can leave for his grandson. For instance, the grandson may carry his grandfather’s looks, legacy or worldview. He may even receive his possessions. For me, when I sit and contemplate my grandfather, Billy Graham, I think that one of the greatest gifts he has given me in his twilight years is something more subtle. He’s given me a lesson.

Pentecostals get a bad rap these days from all sides. Secularists don’t like us because we are morally conservative. Some mainline Christians classify us as holy rollers. And fundamentalists like John MacArthur question our very faith, claiming that all our experiences with the Holy Spirit are fake.