“How do we contend for the faith biblically without becoming quarrelsome and contentious?” A member of my (Barry’s) congregation posed this thoughtful yet difficult question when our church was studying the letter of Jude. In his purpose statement (vv. 3–4), Jude says he wants to write about the sal
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. During the third quarter of 2026 (July–September), the Education Cluster recorded 185 education-related incidents in the West Bank, including East Jerusalem, affecting 149 schools. Compared with the same period in 2025, recorded incidents increased by 99%, while the number of a...
missions
We live in a chronically noncommittal society. No wonder, then, that this has been dubbed the age of anxiety. Surely, covenant relationships aren’t the only cure, but it might surprise us how much stability of soul comes from deep, reliable, unflighty fellowship. Today, most of t...
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. The Community Nutrition Sentinel Site system works across 465 sites in 401 districts to track under‐five malnutrition. It uses simple mid‐ upper‐arm measurements and checks for swelling. The system began in 2023 through close collaboration with partners and local communities. T...
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. The dashboard provides an overview of humanitarian health services across Afghanistan, showing coverage, population reached, and overall progress toward annual health targets. It highlights coordinated efforts by partners to deliver essential health services to communities in n...
persecution
Ruslan Chaldanbayev worked as a youth pastor for 10 years in Central Asia, seeing many young people leave Islam to follow Christ. Today he helps lead a youth movement called 2CA; their goal is to see 2% of Central Asian youth become followers of Jesus Christ. He and his wife both...
missions
God changed the heart of a young “prince of preachers” all with a single, simple verse: Look to Jesus and live.Watch Now
missions
How did Paul see his role as the first preacher a church might hear? He laid the groundwork for generations of faithful preaching.Watch Now
missions
As we were finishing a counseling session, Jill looked at me with concern, her eyebrows furrowed. “You got distracted,” she bluntly stated. Unfortunately, Jill was right. Just outside my workspace, several pastors gathered in the church office lobby, talking and laughing. I’d got...
poverty
Autumn is a season of changes. At our home, as the leaves yellowed and the days shortened, my youngest child started middle school. That means picture books have me feeling a little nostalgia for the past these days, right alongside a lot of excitement for new things to come. Man...
missions
A couple of years ago, two college students challenged me—a woman in her 50s—to memorize the Sermon on the Mount (Matt. 5–7). Inwardly, I balked, but now I know that few things in my 35 years of following Jesus have been more transformative than committing Jesus’s most famous ser...
