Next Generation

Quarterback C.J. Stroud of the Houston Texans not only is running away with the NFL rookie of the year award but also is being mentioned as a potential most valuable player. Stroud, ...

As Americans eat turkey and watch football today, they can thank Sarah Josepha Hale, who is considered the mother of the modern Thanksgiving celebration. In 1864, the Newport, N.H., native was editor ...

“We pursue kids where they are, instead of expecting them to come to us,” says the CEO of Youth for Christ, Jacob Bland. “Together, through trusted relationships, we point them to Jesus, ...

Bob Dylan rocked the music world in 1979 when he released the iconic album “Slow Train Coming.” The singer who was the voice of his generation was writing about overt Christian themes, ...

As conflict rages across the Middle East and Africa, young Arab children are turning to the Arabic language SAT-7 for inspiration, hope, and assurance. Andrea El-Mounayer, SAT-7 KIDS Channel manager, calls the ...

Hundreds of thousands of students across the nation are expected to participate in the annual Bring Your Bible to School Day on Thursday, Oct. 5. Participation in the event, sponsored by Focus ...

It was an ordinary chapel service on Feb. 8, 2023, in Hughes Auditorium at Asbury University. But what happened next was anything but ordinary, taking almost everyone by surprise. While most left ...

The long-awaited sequent to “The Passion of the Christ” will begin filming in January 2024, according to a veteran Hollywood reporter. Jordan Ruimy of the popular entertainment website World of Reel recently reported ...

The revival that started at Asbury University last year and spread to other campuses has now reached Auburn University in Alabama. Thousands of students recently packed the school’s Neville Arena for worship ...

Most people are never more receptive to hearing the gospel than when they are children. Yet, evangelism aimed at children is often overlooked. “One of the most beautiful passages in the Bible ...

Colorado Coach Deion Sanders shocked the college football world earlier this month when his Buffaloes upset heavily favored TCU. “Thank you, Jesus,” he said in a nationally televised postgame interview, he stated. ...

We may be seeing a cultural church shift against megachurch control over Sunday music. The crowds seen buzzing last week outside the Bridgestone Arena, a regular host to the NCAA basketball tournament ...

Last week, more than 8,500 individuals from 35 different countries and all over the United States gathered in Nashville, Tennessee, for the 2023 Getty Sing! Music worship conference. Another 80,000 attendees from ...

Generosity, a fundamental virtue of all cultures, finds profound expression in the Bible as benefitting the giver and receiver. New research supports those beliefs. In addition to offering moral instruction, scriptures highlight ...

The aging of America is having an impact on the church. A majority of American pastors, whose average age is 52, say it is becoming increasingly difficult to find mature young Christians ...

In the wake of the devastating fire that swept through Lahaina, Maui, on August 8, leaving unimaginable destruction and heartache, Child Evangelism Fellowship (CEF) has extended its compassionate hand to the resilient ...

How can the global Church apply the collective time, energy and resources to finish the Great Commission?  A plan could be developed by 400 Christian leaders representing 39 European countries meeting for ...

The nature of community is changing. The old village has gone. One can lament the passing of parish church and village pub, but the type of community that birthed them has gone ...

Worship leader Sean Feucht may have briefly lost a guitar but gained a soul in the process. This summer, the “Let Us Worship” shared on social media that his prized 1967 Gallagher ...

College football season is quickly approaching and with it, the return of the popular “College Gameday” show on ESPN. Rece Davis, the host of the show, recently shared with Sports Spectrum how ...

A child’s greatest enemy, doubt can become a best friend. The secret is to help him or her bring those doubts out into the open…to take them to God. Looking at the ...

Generation Z may be a bright spot in an otherwise increasingly secular culture. Forty-four percent of Gen Z adults between the ages of 18 and 26 are either very or extremely curious ...

An Idaho newspaper recently called worship leader Sean Feucht and his associates “dangerous activists” and “charlatans” who wanted to “inject their brand of Christianity into government.” The comments, by the Idaho Statesman, ...

JÖNKÖPING, Sweden — Jan-Anders Pettersson struck a note of humility when describing attendance at Pingst Jönköping, a Pentecostal church in this downtown near the shore of Lake Vattern. “Unfortunately, it is summer ...

The percentages of Americans who believe in each of five religious entities — God, angels, heaven, hell and the devil — have edged downward by three to five percentage points since 2016, ...