Junior Garcia was carrying a 12-foot cross along Interstate-30 in Fort Worth and Arlington, Texas, on Thursday afternoon. He was hard to miss.

The words “under God” will remain part of the Pledge of Allegiance in Massachusetts classrooms after a judge ruled that the phrase does not violate the rights of an atheist family there.

This past weekend we were blessed to be at the Jubilee Worship Center in Hobart, IN pastored by Bishop Dale & Lisa Combs.

Megachurch pastor Creflo Dollar addressed his congregation on Sunday morning, declaring his innocence amid charges that he choked and slapped his teenaged daughter.

Mariah Kirby wanted to exhort students that “the soul of the sluggard craves and gets nothing, while the soul of the diligent is richly supplied” (Prov. 13:14) during her graduation speech on Saturday. But Carolina Public Charter District and Provost Academy officials told her she couldn’t.

Edgars knew that smell anywhere. In fact, he knew it just a little too well. The 22-year-old counselor at Saturday’s Baltic Youth Festival had struggled with an alcohol problem for years before finding Christ and overcoming the addiction. So when Matis, 34, approached him during Saturday afternoon’s invitation from Franklin Graham to accept Jesus inside Arena Riga, he didn’t even have to ask.

The Church of God Evangel remains the official Church of God magazine, founded more than 100 years ago.

By David Roebuck

When General Overseer A.J. Tomlinson recorded the minutes to the fourth General Assembly in 1909, he reported, “Some more thoughts advanced about a church paper but the Assembly came to no conclusion.” Encompassed within those words was a dream that would be fulfilled the next year in the birth of the Church of God Evangel.

There are 1.2 billion children and youth between the ages of 4 and 14 years around the world. Church of God Youth and Discipleship understand and are doing all they can to reach and teach this vast population group. We must indeed train the next generation.

Pastor Ken Andrews and son Austin to lead new venture combining their pastoral skills and Christian faith with the power of what they learned as contestants onThe Biggest Loser to change lives within the Christian community.