Minister dies after contracting rare virus from a mosquito
When Keith Ball left for India earlier this month, his family never imagined that they wouldn't see him again. Ball, minister for the Delaware Church…
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‘The world starts next door’
Walk up to a house in your neighborhood, knock on the door, and ask whoever answers to study the Bible with you or to visit…
He leads me beside Stillwater
A lot of young people choose a college based on family loyalties to a university or great scholarships. For me, neither was the case. I…
Why planting new churches matters
Stanley E. Granberg is a church planter at heart. Granberg and his wife, Gena, planted churches in Meru, Kenya, from 1983 to 1993. Today, he…
A trip to Home Depot leads to a baptism — and hope for Venezuela
NASHVILLE, Tenn. — ‘Go Dawgs!” That wasn’t a phrase I expected to hear in the heart of Tennessee Vols country. (Actually, it’s more like Commodore country…
More room for ministry under a Big Sky
GREAT FALLS, Mont. —‘Yet who knows whether you have come to the kingdom for such a time as this?” Members of the Great Falls Church…
Moving in, the right way
GREAT FALLS, Mont. — Spider Man, bouncy castles and games of cornhole and pickleball (a combination of badminton and table tennis) highlighted the Sunday afternoon carnival…
Scot McKnight: ‘Our narrative has been captured’
OKLAHOMA CITY — In the midst of an impeachment inquiry, heated debates about climate change and all of the angry social media posts that are…
Editorial: Love ‘these servants of God’
‘You will all watch your words and the ways that you go at these people, these servants of God!” Certainly, ministers are not perfect. They…
Is socialism to blame?
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina — Don’t preach to Gabriel Damalis about the virtues of socialism. “Personally, I don’t like socialism,” he says, “because I lived it.…
