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11 Unexpected Ways Share the Gospel, Without Killing Your Relationships! By Dwight Widaman | A new book serves as a “how-to” to share the Gospel. Those who follow Jesus have a God-given command ...

Are the world’s oldest Christian communities on the verge of extinction?  A state of emergency declared for Middle East Christians could bring their plight to a wider world audience as  evangelical and Protestant ...

University of Kansas Offers Alternative That Does Not Use Aborted Babies   Dr. David Prentice |   You’ve probably heard of it by now, the Ice Bucket Challenge. Those challenged are supposed ...

City Union Mission Celebrates 90 Years By Debbie Freeman   Photographers from City Union Mission’s early years often captured long lines of men waiting for a meal, a scene typical of a ...

‘One week’ deadlines for Iraqi Christians to convert or ‘face the sword’ By World Watch Monitor   An Iraqi Christian Mikha Qasha, fleeing from Qaraqosh, has given a personal account of members ...

FERGUSON, Mo. – When The Passage Church, on the border of the St. Louis suburbs of Florissant and Ferguson, partnered with local church plants to initiate a Ferguson cleanup effort of the ...

Christian performers all over the Kansas City area have long awaited the day when audio engineer Michael “Top Spin” Tosspon would open his own recording studio. Well, wait no longer — that ...

  Last month, we discussed the fact that much like Bible greats such as Joseph, Daniel, and Esther, your calling, too, will include trials and tribulations. While some women have reacted very ...

The public is invited to learn how to develop innovative and creative applications for the workplace at the 2014 Joseph Company Innovation Summit, Aug. 14–16 at the multi-purpose room in Joseph Company ...

Koyote clinics work with kids on football and relationship skills There’s more to football than playing football, says Nick Baumgartner, owner of the Kansas Koyotes Indoor Football Team. It involves making a ...

CHARLOTTE, N.C. |Christian News Service| — The condition of Nancy Writebol, a missionary who recently contracted Ebola while serving in Liberia, has worsened, according to SIM (www.simusa.org), the Christian missions organization with ...

Westlake Ace Hardware to team up with The Salvation Army in Kansas City to raise money for fans. The temperature is on the rise and so is the Salvation Army’s need for ...

By Dwight Widaman   The ads on television, newspapers, radio and the internet are numerous and confusing. Each side in the debates over Tuesday’s Missouri Amendments to the State Constitution sound reasonable. ...

New Exhibit in Springfield Explores God’s Word and How it Came to be with Must-See Artifacts and Some of the World’s Oldest Bibles   By Dwight Widaman |   Throughout history, the ...

Passages Americana Exhibit: Signers of the Declaration of Independence Norm Conrad | Curator of English Bibles, Museum of the Bible | It has been said there is nothing unique or original in ...

Aug. 6 conference will draw pastors, volunteers, legislators and law enforcement from around the world By Dwight Widaman |   Outside the seedy motel turned brothel, pimps bark orders to the women ...

Faith & Family Night July 26 by Alan Goforth | Mike Sweeney was a four-time All-Star and earned tens of millions of dollars while playing for the Kansas City Royals. But like ...

After decades, efforts earning spot at Hollywood table   By Michael Foust For years, Christians bemoaned the state of Hollywood movies — the sexuality, the language, the violence — while simultaneously wondering, ...

By Gregory Tomlin MOSUL, Iraq (BP) — Iraqi Christians came under fire again as the bloody campaign of Islamic militants spilled over from Syria into Iraq’s northern cities last week. An estimated ...

By Andrew Branch   (WNS)–As his native Brazil hosts the month-long World Cup tournament, soccer star Ricardo Izecson dos Santos Leite wants you to know that he is a Christian. Ricardo, better known ...

MIDLAND, Texas |Christian News Service| — BiblicalRecovery.com announced today that it has launched a new Bible-based online course to help Christians beat bad habits and overcome addictions. The Biblical Recovery Course & Twenty-Eight ...

PHILADELPHIA, June 12, 2014 /Christian News Service/ – As the Presbyterian Church (USA) prepares to discuss divestment proposals designed to influence Israeli policy at its General Assembly in Detroit, June 14-21, leaders of the international organizations speaking ...

PLANO, Texas, June 10, 2014 |Christian News Service|When tornadoes come to town, does your family know what to do? To help North Texans prepare for severe weather and other emergencies, World Vision ...

Matthew West/KJ-52 to Headline Faith and Family Night at the KC Royals By Alan Goforth | Metro Voice   Instead of being satisfied with an occasional base hit, Scott Dawson encourages Christians ...

By Kharissa Forte | Metro Voice On January 1, 1863, President Abraham Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation, which aimed to end slavery once and for all. Yet slaves weren’t actually set free ...