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Throughout the capital city of Bangladesh, the call to prayer perforates Dhaka's early morning air, spilling out from the tops of mosques, a reminder that prayer is better than sleep. Although Bangladesh, a country about the size of Arkansas,... Continue Reading »

WMU and the WMU Foundation honored Debby Akerman of Myrtle Beach, with a top award for service and leadership during the WMU Missions Celebration and Annual Meeting, June 10-11, at the San Antonio Marriott Rivercenter.... Continue Reading »

Through unending rice fields in northern Bangladesh, a group of Christians ? Bangladeshi, American and Kenyan ? walked from village to village to share the good news.... Continue Reading »

An insidious false thinking has left the churches of the Southern Baptist Convention vulnerable to defeat by Satan, and the convention's only hope is old-fashioned confession and a Holy Ghost revival, SBC president Frank Page told convention messengers during... Continue Reading »

Rather than debating ?disputable doctrines that lead to destructive distractions? from the task of spreading the gospel, Morris Chapman urged messengers to embrace the core beliefs they hold in common and ?learn to engage in healthy debate? about varied... Continue Reading »

The urgency in her voice was unmistakable. Send new missionaries immediately, Lottie Moon pleaded. ?I am holding on at considerable risk of permanent injury to health. Yet I must not leave until others are here to take over the... Continue Reading »

Southern Baptist pastors and other speakers prescribed renewed confidence in the power of the gospel, abiding in Christ and personal holiness as remedies to the decline in baptisms across the Southern Baptist Convention during the Southern Baptist Pastors? Conference... Continue Reading »

Whether you?re up for an aloha-style adventure to live God's unshakeable truth or a trail-blazing trip through the Wild West, LifeWay has a Vacation Bible School option for 2008 that will meet your outreach needs. ?Outrigger Island: Living God's... Continue Reading »

Father. Grill master. Heavyweight boxing champion. Pastor. At an Atlanta-area book signing at the Buckhead LifeWay Christian Store, George Foreman recounted why he penned ?God in My Corner,? a new spiritual memoir detailing Foreman's life before Christ, his transformation... Continue Reading »

The stage is set in Kansas City, Mo., as thousands of girls prepare to gather for ?Blume?? four powerful days of worship, interactive conferences, hands-on missions and ministry projects, concerts, fun nightly activities, and new friends.... Continue Reading »

Southern Baptist Convention president Frank Page has called on organizers of a planned January 2008 gathering of moderates and liberals to focus less on their plan to 'take the microphone away? from conservatives and attend more to spreading the... Continue Reading »

Like the lukewarm church at Laodicea that Jesus said in the book of Revelation he was about to spew out of his mouth, The Barna Group in a recent study assessed American Christianity as neither hot nor cold.... Continue Reading »