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Cleveland, TN—On Saturday, May 31, 2014, Dr. Mark Williams, General Overseer of the Church of God, announced to graduates and friends gathered at the 39th Commencement Exercises for the Pentecostal Theological Seminary that Dr. R. Lamar Vest has been selected to serve as the tenth president of the Seminary. Vest was selected by the PTS Board of Trustees in consultation with the International Executive Committee of the Church of God. Dr. Vest will follow Dr. Steven J. Land who announced in January his intention to transition from the Office of the President to a role as “teacher, author, and consultant.”

Since I have been serving in full-time church-related ministry since 1980 I have been through various stages of growth and development in ministry and character. Based on self-reflections and observations from years of ministering to and with pastors and leaders in the church, I have written the following article on some of the specific sins and temptations most of us go through, based on our age and level of experience.

Methodist and Pentecostal Pastors across Singapore were drawn to listen to Verna Linzey for four days when she arrived to speak about the reception of the Holy Spirit as confirmed by praying in the Spirit, and the Azusa Street revival of 1906. She also spoke about the move of the Holy Spirit when she herself ministered at the Azusa Street Mission site and Union Church on December 7-8, 2012 and at 214 Bonnie Brae Street on December 14, 2012. The conference was held at the Vision Church, pastored by Rev. David Lee.

A recent census has shown a decline of Christianity in London over the last decade. Less than six in 10 participants now identify Christianity as their religion with an increase in those who reported “no religion.” To confront the decline of Christianity in Britain, Premier Christian Media is partnering with Southern California’s Biola University for a one-day Christian apologetics conference on July 12, 2014 in London.