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- 1. John Piper Retires After 30 Years in Pulpit
- Best-selling author and pastor John Piper will focus on his writing after preaching his last sermon as senior pastor of Bethlehem Baptist Church in Minneapolis, where he has served for more than 30 years. ...
- Created on 08 January 2013
- 2. Frank Pastore Dies From Motorcycle Crash Injuries
- Frank Pastore, a Christian radio host and author of the 2010 memoir Shattered: Struck Down, But Not Destroyed, died Dec. 17—nearly a month after suffering serious head injuries from a motorcycle crash ...
- Created on 19 December 2012
- 3. The Risk Factor
- by Jamie Buckingham During my senior year in high school a group of women somewhere in the nation started a movement to have all competitive team sports—especially football—removed from public schools. ...
- Created on 29 March 2012
- 4. Hope For All of Us
- by Jamie Buckingham Eleven years ago, my daddy died. It was Sunday noon. We had just come in from church and the phone was ringing. It was my mother in Vero Beach, Fla. "Daddy has just gone to be with ...
- Created on 28 March 2012
- 5. Choosing to Obey God
- by Jamie Buckingham I was fresh out of seminary and the new pastor of a Baptist church in a little South Carolina town when Martin Luther King Jr. led his famous march from Montgomery to Selma, Ala. We ...
- Created on 27 March 2012
- 6. A Scout's Honor
- by Jamie Buckingham No book influenced my young life more than the Boy Scout handbook. In it I found a wonderful world of semaphore flags, sheepshanks, clove hitches, lean-tos and reflector ovens. It was ...
- Created on 26 March 2012
- 7. Politics, Pastors and Poets
- by Jamie Buckingham The first trip I made to Czechoslovakia was 18 years ago. I was there with a Dutch Bible smuggler. Be-sides distributing Bibles, we attended underground prayer meetings. One of these ...
- Created on 23 March 2012
- 8. Growing Older
- by Jamie Buckingham Everybody I know, when they consider the only alternative, wants to get older. Well, my daughter, Sandy, doesn't want to get older. But she never has accepted that we can't halt time. ...
- Created on 19 March 2012
- 9. Games Men Play
- by Jamie Buckingham Last year, I almost quit playing racquetball. Almost, but not quite. I'm glad I didn't. Racquetball is a high priority in my life. By that I mean I play three times a week and often ...
- Created on 16 March 2012
- 10. Phony Christians
- by Jamie Buckingham Aside from disobeying and failing God, the one thing I fear most is becoming phony. Our American world, in particular, has spawned far too many phony Christians. They are easy to spot, ...
- Created on 15 March 2012
- 11. The Happiest Day
- by Jamie Buckingham According to my friend Ollie Swenson, who also lives in the country, the second happiest day in his life was the day someone gave him a goat. The happiest day was the day the goat ran ...
- Created on 14 March 2012
- 12. A Visit in Exile
- by Jamie Buckingham Nothing had changed—even though it was all different. We sat up late, talking, just as we had done 10 years ago. My wife, Jackie, Dan and Viola Malachuk, and myself. Outside winter ...
- Created on 13 March 2012
- 13. Hotheads in the Household
- by Jamie Buckingham I never heard my father and mother argue. I now know they often disagreed. But they considered it bad breeding to argue in front of their children. It was an unreal world for a kid ...
- Created on 12 March 2012
- 14. My Finest Christmas
- by Jamie Buckingham I had known for several months that my body could not maintain the pace. The time was December 1979—10 years ago. The pressures in our church had brought us to another crisis stage. ...
- Created on 07 March 2012
- 15. Learning About Pacing
- by Jamie Buckingham When I was a child, our family made an annual pilgrimage to visit our "kissin' cousins" in the Bluegrass state of Kentucky. I loved the beaten biscuits and fried chicken for breakfast. ...
- Created on 07 March 2012
- 16. Converged 21 Features 'Ministry Today' Guest Editor Bishop Harry Jackson
- I just returned from attending Converge 21 USA conference at Regent University in Virginia Beach, Va. It was tremendously inspiring, and there were many powerful speakers there, including Bishop R. Jackson ...
- Created on 06 March 2012
- 17. More Readers Pay Tribute to Jamie Buckingham
- We continue to honor author/pastor Jamie Buckingham with a month-long tribute on the Ministry Today website. Before his untimely death in February 1992, Jamie served as editor of the magazine for several ...
- Created on 06 March 2012
- 18. Free Webinars For Churches
- Brotherhood Mutual Insurance Company is offering two free webinars for churches later this month. Set for March 19 from 4-5 p.m. EST, "Sexual Harassment Prevention for Ministry Staff" is designed to create ...
- Created on 06 March 2012
- 19. Did You Miss This In The News?
- Check out some links below to recent stories from Charisma News that you'll find interesting and informative. You can also sign up to receive stories on your smart phone by signing up for the free app ...
- Created on 06 March 2012
- 20. Giving Thanks
- by Jamie Buckingham I stood in my den last August, stunned, watching my TV. There was Jim Bakker being half-dragged, half-led from his lawyer's office in Charlotte, N.C. His hair disheveled, his shirt ...
- Created on 04 March 2012