Chance. Coincidence. Happenstance. Those words don’t exist in the vocabulary of Billy Graham Rapid Response Team chaplains.

Recently Verna Linzey, a “daughter” of the Azusa Street Revival, was ministering in the Los Angeles Mission in Torrance when revival unexpectedly broke out with ecstatic utterances, prophecy, shaking and salvations, and this has continued at that mission.

A Church of God initiative to read the Bible through in 2013 has now reached over 100,000 people signed up to participate in the program called READ. As of December 6, the number was 104,985 and growing with individuals signed up from around the globe.

Wycliffe Bible Translators announced new statistics illustrating the dramatic progress in Bible translation efforts around the world. There are now 2,075 Scripture translation projects in progress and just 1,967 languages still in need for a translation project to begin.

Liberty Counsel has offered pro bono legal counsel and, if needed, legal defense to the Little Rock superintendent of schools and Agape Church to defend the right of students to attend the Merry Christmas Charlie Brown play at a local church.

Tufts University will recognize Tufts Christian Fellowship, a chapter of InterVarsity Christian Fellowship, as a student religious group.

The Church of God Philippines, under the guidance of leading pastor and Overseer Anthony Velasco, is set to host a major youth empowerment event called ASIAFEST 2013.

If you aspire to ministry, don’t be stupid. Decide now to avoid these obvious pitfalls.

U.S. gymnast and two-time Olympic gold medalist Gabrielle Douglas believes that her own success is directly proportional to the immense support from her faith in God, family and friends. This theme is at the heart of her debut memoir: Grace, Gold & Glory: My Leap of Faith, which releases today from Zondervan.