Stories tagged with: salvation

• Baptisms celebrate 'transformed lives' at The Journey Church

  by Barbara Denman, posted Friday, July 31, 2020 (2 years ago)

  

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  ORANGE CITY, Fla. (BP) -- Although he grew up in the church, Jordan Harris identified himself as an agnostic during his college years at Florida State University. Returning home to start his career, his parents bribed him to go with them to the Journey church -- worship attendance in exchange for a free meal at a restaurant. For a starving young man starting his own company, any dinner was a step above the Ramen noodles he usually feasted on. Read More

• IMB workers share nothing but blood of Jesus can heal

  by Caroline Anderson*, posted Thursday, July 02, 2020 (2 years ago)

  

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  SOUTHEAST ASIA (BP) -- In a dimly lit wooden home, a paralyzed man shares the story of his paralysis, his time with a witchdoctor, and finally, his vision of heaven.

  IMB missionary Nancy Potter* translates his testimony for a visiting volunteer team from Oklahoma. As Seo* shares his story, he uses a white rope, strung like a hammock, to keep himself upright. Read More

• No pause for coronavirus, 'Soul Patrol' has stayed on track

  by Scott Barkley/Christian Index, posted Friday, May 29, 2020 (3 years ago)

  

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  SUMMERVILLE, Ga. (BP) -- Since mid-January Pastor Steve Pickern of SonRise Community Church has led 186 people to the Lord.

  Should Pickern keep the pace he established Jan. 16, the number of those who accept Christ through his one-on-one evangelism will surpass 500 this year. Whether at Walmart, a restaurant, pumping gas, or anywhere, the 66-year-old asks others what would happen if they died that day. Sure, some say no to his invitation, but at least one a day since he started has said yes. Read More

• Jewish woman accepts Christ after watching livestreams during COVID-19, drives hour for baptism

  by Diana Chandler, posted Friday, May 22, 2020 (3 years ago)

  

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  GULFPORT, Miss. (BP) -- "Don't live in fear anymore," Lisa Cohen Huff recalls hearing while half asleep in bed one morning at her Hattiesburg home. "Here's the door. All you've got to do is step through," she heard the next morning.

  Huff grew up Jewish. But even before the COVID-19 pandemic largely shut down onsite worship, she had begun watching livestreamed worship and devotionals by First Baptist Church in Gulfport, an hour south of her home. The pastor there, Jimmy Stewart, was a childhood friend of her husband Pope Huff, who was a Christian. Read More

• FIRST-PERSON: Easter and the body of Christ

  by Paul Kim, posted Wednesday, April 15, 2020 (3 years ago)

  

  Paul Kim tells the story of a man who was led to Christ on Good Friday -- the same day the man was taken to the hospital for COVID-19. "The pandemic has shown clearly that we cannot take for granted the time we're given," Kim says. Read More

• FIRST-PERSON: Jingle Some Bells

  by David Jeremiah, posted Wednesday, December 11, 2019 (3 years ago)

  

  David Jeremiah explores some of the bells common to the Christmas season and how they may "announce the reality of Jesus Christ in our lives." Read More

• Gallaty book reveals what nearly killed him

  by Joy Allmond, posted Thursday, October 31, 2019 (3 years ago)

  

  NASHVILLE (BP) -- Robby Gallaty isn't who you think he is.

  At least that's what billboards in the greater Nashville area said of Gallaty, pastor of Long Hollow Baptist Church in nearby Hendersonville, in the weeks leading up to the church's 2016 Easter service.

  The message -- meant to mimic a smear campaign -- gained national media attention and garnered 14,000 attendees on Easter Sunday, doubling the church's usual attendance of 7,000. Read More

• FIRST-PERSON: Enter the narrow door

  by Susan Lafferty, posted Wednesday, October 30, 2019 (3 years ago)

  

  Drawing from Luke 13, Susan Lafferty analyzes Jesus' instructions, "Make every effort to enter through the narrow door." Read More

• Joshua Harris' 'falling away' stirs doctrine reaction

  by Diana Chandler, posted Friday, August 02, 2019 (3 years ago)

  

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  VANCOUVER, British Columbia (BP) -- Former megachurch pastor Joshua Harris' departure from Christianity has spurred dialogue about apologetics, legalism and the doctrine of salvation.

  Harris, former pastor of the mega Covenant Life Church in Gaithersburg, Md., announced in July he and his wife Shannon are divorcing, that he no longer considers himself a Christian, and that he regrets having taught that marriage is a union only between a man and a woman. Read More

• FIRST-PERSON: Confidence in Christ

  by David Jeremiah, posted Wednesday, November 14, 2018 (4 years ago)

  "If you don't have confidence in the Savior," David Jeremiah writes, "you cannot have confidence in your salvation." Read More