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Liberia (MNN) – Imagine being a woman in labor, but the hospital is hours away on very rough roads. For pregnant mothers and their babies in rural Liberia, that journey can be deadly. Liberia has one of the world's highest maternal mortality rates. According to a UNFPA report, ap...
Afghanistan (MNN) — As Christians worldwide observe the International Day of Prayer for the Persecuted Church on November 1, believers in Afghanistan remain in urgent need of prayer and support. Afghanistan is one of the world's most hostile countries for Christians, particularly...
Not long ago, I had a surreal phone call with two young Christian men serving prison sentences in one of Iran's hardest prisons. They’re there because they refuse to stop preaching about Jesus. When I asked how I could pray for them, their answer wasn't what you might expect. "Pr...
Israelis voted Tuesday in their first national election since Hamas’s October 7, 2023, attacks, with turnout reaching nearly 78 percent—the highest in more than 25 years. Yet no party came ahead as the clear winner, leaving the country in a deadlock that could take weeks to resol...
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Jake Kail was 22 years old when he says he encountered his first demon. In 2005, while his parents were having a Bible study upstairs at their home in Pittsburgh, he and his sister Liz were praying with a visitor downstairs. The man was depressed and concerned about his past dabb...
I really enjoy October 31. It’s not just pumpkins and spice. A big part is that we’ve had young kids for the last fifteen years. Another part is that I’m a Calvinist and very happy Protestant. Halloween presents a challenge and an opportunity to young Christian families: we don’t...
How do we avoid getting cynical in the face of people’s flaws? John Piper shows from Acts 9:18–31 how Barnabas watched for glimpses of God’s grace in others.Watch Now...
https://media.thegospelcoalition.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/10/23102213/effective-evangelism.mp3 In the summer of 2021, pastor Luke Peterson moved to Columbus, Ohio, to look for lost people. To find them, he joined a gym. He started building friendships. And then he began asking...
Trinity Presbyterian finally has a church building of its own. That building has arches. And carved hammerbeams that tell the story of the Bible. Just northeast of Tulsa, in Owasso, Oklahoma, the PCA congregation has met in many locations since it was established in 2011. Twelve,...
The Syllabus is a column that features student opinions on timely national and international topics. We aim to highlight how evangelical students in the US are thinking about important issues and how the Christian faith informs their worldview. Students should use this link to su...
Before reaching Guangzhou in 1807, missionary Robert Morrison struggled between taking the gospel to China or Timbuktu and prayed “that God would station him in that part of the missionary field where the difficulties were greatest and to all human appearances, the most insurmoun...
Paul sometimes speaks to believers with sobering severity. How does God use warnings like his to keep us walking with Christ until the end?Watch Now
What does it mean to be Reformed? The label is used frequently but not always carefully. For some, it simply refers to a particular view of salvation. For others, it evokes a tradition, a culture, or even an aesthetic. Yet historically, to be Reformed has meant something much ric...
Libya (MNN) — The Gospel continues to leave its mark in Libya, even through tragedy. Anita Smith recently spoke with Voice of the Martyrs USA about the legacy of her martyred husband, Ronnie Smith, and their mission to share Christ in Libya. “We wanted to take God's love and the ...
Lebanon (MNN) — Heart for Lebanon’s “winterization” ministry seeks to keep families warm during the winter months. As families in Lebanon struggle to provide for their basic needs, winter brings additional challenges. For those living in temporary shelters or makeshift homes, sta...
I've heard it said more than once: "If the church did its job, the parachurch wouldn't have to exist." For instance, I was consulting with a local pastor who wanted to see the church serve people in poverty in his community. It was important to him that the church do it, not a no...
Klaus Krogh, cofounder of the graphic design company 2K/Denmark, died October 6 at age 74, after spending more than four decades creating beautiful and accessible Bibles. His typefaces appear in Bibles around the world. Krogh believed that better Bible aesthetics and readability ...
Texas megachurch pastor Jack Graham urged parishioners at an October 11 service not to vote by party, though he did so right next to Governor Greg Abbott. Abbott, a Republican, had just delivered a stump speech at Prestonwood Baptist Church about limiting transgender youth from p...
What keeps faltering faith from final ruin? John Piper opens Luke 22:31–34 to show Christ praying for the faith of his people to not fail.Watch Now
Modern psychology defines happiness as “self-fulfillment.” But without God, our souls will always long for greater satisfaction and joy.Listen Now
What can pastors today learn from the Puritans? Matt Smethurst and Ligon Duncan welcome Joel Beeke to discuss the lasting wisdom of Puritan pastors and theologians. Drawing from decades of studying and teaching the Puritans, Beeke explains why they placed such a high priority on ...
On My Shelf helps you get to know various writers through a behind-the-scenes glimpse into their lives as readers. I asked L. Michael Morales—professor at Greenville Presbyterian Theological Seminary and author of Exodus Old and New: A Biblical Theology of Redemption—about what’s...
Iran (MNN) — Despite isolation, persecution and economic hardship, Iranian believers are finding fellowship and spiritual support through online gatherings. John Cerniglia with SAT-7, a satellite television ministry serving the Middle East and North Africa, says the ministry uses...
India (MNN) – India’s Bihar province, the birthplace of Buddhism and Jainism, was once known as the “Graveyard of Missionaries” for its hostility toward Christians. Pastor M, a Biharian disciple-maker and church planter, says the region’s spiritual darkness is giving way to the l...
The last thing I remember, before I fell into a deep sleep and dreamed a dream, was reading Jesus’s parable about the barren fig tree: A man had a fig tree planted in his vineyard, and he came seeking fruit on it and found none. And he said to the vinedresser, “Look, for three ye...
The Lord’s ways are not our ways (Isa. 55:8–9). Do we take this seriously, or do we revert to “our ways” in desperate seasons when we wander from God to seek meaning? I revisit this battle every time I look in the mirror at a quadriplegic body I desperately hope is not me. “Our w...
The line between a carnal Christian and an unbeliever is a dangerous one. Conduct demonstrates the reality of the new birth — or the lack of it.Watch Now...
We’ve probably all had the sad experience of watching someone we love walk away from the faith they’ve professed. We witnessed their baptism. We heard their testimony. Or perhaps we didn’t know them personally, but we enjoyed listening to their music or reading their books. But n...
Many of us have seen the statistics that Gen Z is the least explicitly Christian or religious generation on record. As a result, we might immediately despair about ministering to this generation. In this panel recorded at TGC25, Rachel Gilson, Alex Harris, Kori Porter, and Derek ...
