By Tim Townsend
ST. LOUIS POST-DISPATCH
11/01/2009
STEELE, Mo. — At the beginning of an evening worship service at the First Assembly of God church, the Rev. Ryan Harris pitted teens against adults in a trivia game called Battle of the Generations.
Wednesday Night Alive is the church’s outreach service to a swath of the city’s troubled teenagers here [...]

Many of us are in search of the abundant life the Bible promises us (John 10:10) specifically in the area of our finances. Yet, our present realities seem a far cry from this. And when you add the current economic climate to the equation, things can start to look daunting.
However, let’s remind ourselves of some [...]

  I’ve been a church drop out twice, once while I was an associate pastor.  Isn’t that funny?
As I reflected on those experiences through the lens of church growth strategies and evangelism, I want to set aside the data that is out there and just share my own experience.
Why do we make all the efforts [...]

A new Web site aims to draw attention to alleged clergy sexual abuse within the nation’s largest Pentecostal denomination.
D.L. Foster, the founder of ReportCOGICAbuse.com, says sexual misconduct among ministers has become a growing problem within the 6 million member Church of God in Christ (COGIC). But he claims church leaders rarely take serious action when [...]

A wrongful-death lawsuit filed against a man charged with murdering his wife and two sons is now seeking to add the ministry of televangelist Joyce Meyer as a defendant.
The proposed amendment to the suit, filed on behalf of the family of the slain mother of two, suggests that May 5 killings of Sheri Coleman and [...]