“The divisive nature of our current political climate is hard to ignore. In some contexts, evangelical leaders have found this to be an obstacle to gaining a hearing for the gospel, while in many settings it has become a bridge to evangelism,” said Walter Kim, president of the National Association of Evangelicals (NAE). Brian Eckhardt, …
During his inaugural address, Kim noted Jesus’ inaugural address found in Luke 4:14–21. “God commissioned Jesus to proclaim good news to the world. As you may know, the phrase ‘proclaim good news’ translates a Greek word that is the basis of the English word ‘evangelical.’ Evangelicals are good news people. When Jesus came to proclaim …
“Love God. Love Others.” is theme of the 2019 Pray Together Sunday. Participating churches will focus their prayer time on loving God and loving others, and will join with churches all across the country who are reading the same verses and praying along similar themes. “Pray Together Sunday is a simple opportunity for churches to …
With the theme of “One in Christ,” churches participating in Pray Together Sunday will center their regular prayer time during worship services on verses like Galatians 3:28 and John 17:20–23. Together we will pray that we would seek God and engage his word together, that we would be united in our love for others, that …
“Pray Together Sunday is a simple opportunity to join together, seek God, and ask him to do a mighty thing in our country,” said Leith Anderson, NAE president. “We want to worship him and ask that he transform our communities and nation for his glory.” Churches can register for the third annual Pray Together Sunday …
As the director of the Islam and Religious Freedom Action Team at the Religious Freedom Institute, Jennifer studies and works in partnership with Muslims supporting religious freedom. In this webinar, she decodes common assumptions about Islam and offer practical ideas for countering radical Islamism. Understanding the radicalization process and why violent extremists hate Western culture …
In this podcast, you’ll hear from an evangelical scholar on Islam, who has spent years in relationships with Muslims both overseas and in the United States, on: The main distinctives between historical, biblical Christianity and Islam; How different segments of the Muslim community operate and interact with each other; His own experiences with Islamic extremism; …
In this podcast, you’ll hear from a former Mormon, now evangelical leader in Utah on: The main distinctives between historical, biblical Christianity and Mormonism; A dialogue approach with Mormons; What Mormons and evangelicals have in common; and How the LDS church has changed in the last decade and where it’s headed. Read a Portion of the …
The point is simple: Crisis focuses us on what is most important and brings us together. But there is a subpoint to this lesson as well. When life is easier and freedom abounds, we can easily drift into the luxuries of differences, criticism, separation, divisiveness and isolation. The linear firing squad of the enemy turns …
In his junior year of college, Nick wrote a paper about how to reach his generation with the gospel. The paper went viral and turned into a student-led movement of over 1,000 students responding to the gospel, and then spread out to other campuses, reaching more than 50,000 in just a couple years. Nick has …
