Christianity Today’s Church Finance Today celebrates its 20th anniversary by reflecting on the most significant changes in church finance since it began and offering 20 percent off new subscriptions.

Managing church finances is more complex than ever due to the changes over the past 20 years. The October issue highlights nine of these changes that include rules about how to substantiate cash donations, automatic excess benefit transactions, and the new mandates introduced by Obamacare.

Church Finance Today is an award-winning publication. Church Finance Today received the Award of Merit for the Newsletter category from the Evangelical Press Association this year, and won the Award of Excellence in the same category in previous years.

An electronic archive of the past 20 years of Church Finance Today is now available to subscribers of www.ChurchLawAndTax.com. Two articles, “When Churches Give Christmas Gifts” and “Unrelated Business Income Tax on Rent for Church-Owned Property,” from these archives will be free to view on October 18 and 19 through the end of the month during the 31 in 31 promotion (http://www.churchlawandtax.com/31in31).

Find the complete overview of the nine key changes in church finance in the October 2013 issue of Church Finance Today. A subscription is currently available at a special 20th anniversary rate.

Christianity Today is a nonprofit, global media ministry that serves the church through digital and print publications, as well as practical and accessible web resources that together reach more than 2.5 million people every month.

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The author Mark D. Watt releases his newest book: “Caught Up Night Vision Revealed”. A true prophetic night vision revealed to him of what is to come forth in the earth.

Church of God pastors, members and their families recently attended the biennial Church of God Fiji National Assembly held in the capital city of Suva.

Millions of Christians united across denominational, cultural, and political differences on Sunday, October 6th, as part of the Day of Prayer for the Peace of Jerusalem (DPPJ) (www.daytopray.com) to intercede for the city God calls His own, and to invoke God’s blessing, purposes, and provision upon all of Jerusalem’s people. From over 175 nations, believers gathered to pray in their worship services, in their homes, on college campuses, in regional gatherings, and on a 24-Hour Prayer Conference Call.

The Churches Making Movies Christian Film Festival will host hundreds of movie goers in Clark, New Jersey, October 11-13 when it screens seven world premiere feature films and presents workshops for faith-based filmmakers including a screenwriter’s bootcamp taught by one of the most prolific screenwriters in the country. All feature films screening are produced by or in conjunction with churches.

Byron Black has seen many people try to lose weight in his 20 years as an exercise physiologist. He has seen some successes and failures. He has written a book, “God, Why Can’t I Lose Weight,” to offer people hope.

Leadership Training Conference will be held March 6-9, 2014. After being held in Greenville, South Carolina for many years, the conference leadership team has decided to move it back to its roots, to the Marriott Hotel in Knoxville, Tennessee to celebrate 20 years of training and equipping children’s ministry leaders.

WASHINGTON, Oct. 4, 2013 /Christian Newswire/ — Rev. Patrick J. Mahoney is calling for the faith community to stop and pray for several minutes, wherever they are in the world, for the release of Pastor Saeed and the persecuted church.

We gathered at Billy Graham’s alma mater over three days to explore his ministry’s place in American history and chronicle its meaning for the future. It was a fascinating conversation, and poignant, too, as Graham struggles with poor health at home in Montreat, N.C., far from the limelight he once commanded.

But as scholars and admirers here in suburban Chicago added to the growing conversation on Graham’s legacy, a question hovers: How many people younger than, say, 60 are listening?