Conference: Urban Preaching for Life Change

The opportunity for local churches to reach a wide array of people in Metro New York is unparalleled. This region is home to one of the most vibrant and diverse metropolises of the world and the allure of life in the city attracts all types of people—but not all of them know the positive impact [...]

Post-Abortion Ministry Gets to the ‘Heart’ of the Matter

By Rachel Mari
“The Lord has anointed me to bring good news to the afflicted; He has sent me to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to captives and freedom to prisoners.” -Isaiah 61:1 

Caring for wounded women and men is at the core of Healing Hearts Ministries. An outreach to women who have undergone an [...]

Hawthorne Christian Academy Builds a Lasting Foundation; Open House March 11

Founded in 1981, Hawthorne Christian Academy is a college preparatory school that has helped hundreds of students go on to higher education with a solid foundation built on rigorous academics and a biblical worldview. The school verse is Proverbs 22:6, “Train a child in the way he should go, and when he is old he [...]

‘Adoption is a Life-Saving Option’

By Rachel Mari
           Life begins at conception and the unborn are persons with souls. For the last 50 years, these are the truths that have motivated workers at Bethany Christian Services in their ministry to pregnant women. Bethany Christian Services in Fair Lawn, NJ is part of a national counseling and adoption ministry that upholds the [...]

‘Rational Conclusions’ for Believers, Skeptics

Take a former Atheist who is now a committed Christian, add a lifetime of academia and an engineer’s perspective. The result is Rational Conclusions, the provocative new book by James D. Agresti, a New Jersey writer whose passions and profession have melded together to create a nonfiction work to reaffirm what religious believers know and [...]

A Christ-Awakening At the Pastors’ Prayer Summit

Commentary by Tom Campisi
As a leader of the modern-day prayer movement in the United States and abroad, David Bryant has witnessed many wondrous moments over the last four decades.

The founder of Concerts of Prayer International and a past chairman of America’s National Prayer Committee, he’s led city-wide prayer rallies and conferences all over the world. [...]

Lighthouse Pregnancy Center Banquet Features Author David Kinnaman

David Kinnaman—author of the best-selling book, unChristian: What a New Generation Really Thinks About Christianity . . . and Why it Matters—will be the keynote speaker at the Lighthouse Pregnancy Resource Center fundraising banquet, March 8, at The Venetian Restaurant in Garfield, New Jersey.

Lighthouse offers life-affirming support to women, men, and teens in pregnancy-related crisis. [...]

Why Public Schools Matter to God

By Jeremy Del Rio
How many eighth grade Bible studies lead with Lamentations? Or Leviticus?
Yet last I checked, Lamentations and Leviticus are part of the Biblical canon, along with Romans and Revelation and lots of other heady reading material. 

Should it matter to pastors then that average graduates of America’s city schools read at eighth grade levels?
If [...]