What Will Keep Us Together?
John Derry reflects on how Christian colleges and universities help connect independent Christian churches, strengthen shared identity, and prepare leaders rooted in the Restoration Movement.
Series: Featured
Your Church and AIDS: A Conference to Dispel Darkness
A conference sponsored by CMF and FAME challenged churches to respond to HIV/AIDS through compassion, partnership, prevention, medical care, and practical ministry at home and abroad.
July 6, 2008
The Human Side of HIV/AIDS
Judy Fish looks beyond HIV/AIDS statistics to the human suffering, stigma, poverty, and cultural pressures affecting families in Sub-Saharan Africa—and calls the church to respond with action and truth.
July 6, 2008
Hope Partnership: A Way to Get Involved in HIV/AIDS Ministry
Christian Missionary Fellowship and FAME are partnering through the Hope Partnership to serve vulnerable children and families in Nairobi with education, health care, evangelism, and clean water initiatives.
July 6, 2008
Learning to Share Hope
Tom Moen shares how Mountain Christian Church partnered with Christian Missionary Fellowship to serve families in Kenya and help a congregation respond to global need with head, heart, and hands.
July 6, 2008
A New Movement and the Choices We Must Make
Greg Taylor urges Christians to move beyond sectarian walls and join a wider Restoration Movement marked by justice, mercy, peacemaking, and service to the poor and powerless.
June 29, 2008
Wholehearted Christians
H. Lynn Gardner calls Christians to wholehearted transformation, showing how life in Christ should shape work, words, decisions, character, and every ordinary part of daily living.
June 29, 2008
Growing Compassionate Kids
Jan Johnson encourages families to serve together, offering practical ways parents can help children grow in compassion, confidence, and Christlike care for people in need.
June 29, 2008
Stone-Campbell Dialogue Addresses Issues of Global Mission
Representatives of the three Stone-Campbell streams met in St. Louis to discuss global mission, Christian unity, overseas partnerships, and future cooperation among the churches.
Small Things
Joy Canning shares how six Brooklyn children learned generosity by raising money through art and reading to provide 54 flocks of chicks through Heifer International.
June 29, 2008
The Inside-Out Life
Ken Idleman reflects on obedience, gospel obligation, compassion, and concern for God’s name as motivations for Christians to reach out locally and globally.
What Is an Elder”s Most Important Job?
By Arron Chambers Who is an elder supposed to be? The Bible makes it clear Now the overseer must be above reproach, the husband of but one wife, temperate, self-controlled, respectable, hospitable, able to teach, not given to drunkenness, not violent but gentle, not quarrelsome, not a lover of money. He must manage his own family well and see that his children obey him with proper respect. (If anyone does not know how to manage his own family, how can he take care of God”s church?) He must not be a recent convert, or he may become conceited and fall
Let There Be Peace
Victor M. Parachin offers practical Christian wisdom for cultivating personal peace through prayer, releasing worry, treating others with dignity, and living with serenity amid life’s pressures.
June 22, 2008
Lord, Help, I Am Hearing Voices!
Terry O'Casey reflects on elders, their wives, and the difference between controlling influence and godly counsel that helps church leaders serve with wisdom.
June 22, 2008
Who Am I?
Chuck Sackett reflects on pastor titles, preaching ministry, eldership, and the tension between professional labels and the actual work of serving a congregation.
June 15, 2008
I Can Still Hear His “Hallelujah!”
Ben Cachiaras remembers his grandfather’s lifelong “hallelujah,” reflecting on praise, worship, family memory, and the resurrection hope believers share in the risen Lord Jesus.
June 15, 2008
We’ve All Been Blessed by Their Faithfulness
John Samples reflects on the Estes family’s remarkable legacy of long marriages, rooted in the faithful example of Cornelius M. Estes and Minnie Dell Richardson.
June 15, 2008
Evangelism Is Natural Church
David Bycroft challenges churches to see evangelism and growth as natural outcomes of a healthy congregation, calling leaders to become persistently intentional about reaching the lost.
June 15, 2008
Elders: The Church’s Lead Caregivers
Knofel Staton explores the New Testament language for church elders and argues that elders should serve as shepherd-like lead caregivers who look over people in order to look after them.
June 8, 2008
Good to Great Groups
Michael C. Mack explains how small groups can move from good to great through transformed leaders, devoted teams, and a God-Sized Plan that pushes them toward mission.
