The latest Pew Religious Landscape Survey points to a trend demographers and Church leaders have observed for years – movement across and away from religious affiliations. The Nebraska-based Global Institute For Transformation believes there’s an even bigger issue that should be focused on – the spiritual fervency of the average American Christian, regardless of affiliation.

Advent Film Group (AFG), founded to rebuild culture for Christ in cinema, heeds Dr. James Dobson’s call for a new generation of Christian leaders “to carry the banner when this generation of leaders is gone,” Dobson told an audience of nearly 1,400 at the National Religious Broadcasters (NRB) convention. “The question is, will the younger generation heed the call? Who will defend the unborn child in the years to come?”

By Jackye Campion

As many of us know from headlines media and published statistics, there have been increases in violent crime and suicide among teens in the last few years. Abundant Life Church of God saw the need to give kids hope by spreading the gospel among teens in South San Antonio.

The most widely distributed book in the world just found a new outlet. Now, users of the Reader Digital Book by Sony can make the Bible a part of their portable library.

Marie Chiara and Shantell Robbins traveled to Richards Bay, Kwa Zulu Natal, South Africa, for their internship. Working from their base, Emmanuel Temple, under the supervision of Pastors Timothy and Priscilla Harry, Marie and Shantell traveled to Mozambique and Swaziland for part of their internship where they immersed themselves in holistic mission work.

By Grant McClung

I’m on my way again through Richard Foster’s classic Celebration of Discipline: The Path to Spiritual Growth (Harper San Francisco 1998) and am arrested by his meditation focus on the Passion of Jesus Christ. Foster proposes that believers:

Today is the fifth anniversary of the start of the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq.

Initially, the minority Christian population in Iraq was mostly elated with the fall of Saddam Hussein. They envisioned the coming of peace, safe places to work and live and complete freedom to worship.

Dr. Charles W. Conn

For more than seven decades, the Church of God has received the wisdom and leadership of one of the most versatile individuals ever to be part of the denomination. Dr. Charles W. Conn passed away late Tuesday evening, March 18 at a Chattanooga, Tennessee hospital following a heart attack four days earlier. He was 88.

Ed Mrkvicka’s newest book, “Be Not Deceived,” a book devoted to helping those who have lost their salvation to the deceptions of the modern world, has been named “Best Christian Study of the Year” by Christian Story Teller.com. Previously “Be Not Deceived” was 2007 Books-And- Authors Best Christian Book of the Year and was awarded the prestigious Faith Writers Seal of Approval as an “Outstanding Read,” as well as being recognized as an award-winning finalist in this year’s National Best Book Awards in the category of Christian Inspiration.