“Forget the former things; do now dwell on the past. See, I am doing a new thing! Now it springs up; do you not perceive it?” (Isaiah 43.18 New International Version).

USA (MNN) ― “Sanctity of Human Life” Sunday will be observed throughout the United States on Sunday, January 22, 2012.

Johnny Carr with Bethany Christian Services explains, “This year, the fourth Sunday in January, which is the 22nd, is the actual anniversary date of the Roe v. Wade decision–January 22, 1973. The important thing is that we take a Sunday in January and actually bring into focus what it means to talk about Sanctity of life.”

Billy Graham isn’t much for accolades.

Nothing personifies this more than the verse posted in big letters on the wall of his Montreat, N.C., home:

Galatians 6:14: “But God forbid that I should glory, save in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, by whom the world is crucified unto me, and I unto the world.”

Still, that hasn’t stopped others from bringing up his name.

Casting Crowns is extending its Come to the Well tour into spring with an additional 44 dates, while the Newsboys embark on a 60-plus-stop tour this month. Two multi-artist tours—Winter Jam and the Rock & Worship Roadshow—also launch their nonticketed shows this month.

Of the many areas of ministry in your church, what area is often the most overlooked and under-nourished…. Young Adults. This group has trouble finding a place of ministry, service, and value in almost every congregation. Need some help with ministering to Young Adults? Church of God Youth and Discipleship may have what you have been looking for.

Cleveland, TN– A dedicated Web link for the 2012 Church of God General Assembly will be active on the Church of God Web site starting Monday, January 9, 2012 at 12 noon EST.

The latest version of the popular NIV Bible translation has had its verses on homosexuality reworded, making them clearer in denouncing the practice, a theologian who helped with the translation says.

The Assemblies of God recorded its second-highest ever number of new church openings in the United States, planting just more than one church a day, with 368 new churches opening in 2011.

Domestic ticket sales for movies continued to plummet in 2011 from their highs in the early 2000s, when The Lord of the Rings, The Passion of the Christ and Spider-Man ruled the box office, according to figures released recently by Hollywood.

Media scholar Dr. Ted Baehr, founder and chairman of the Christian Film & Television Commission, thinks many in Hollywood have lost touch with Middle America.