Church & Ministry

“For MBU, it provides an expanded platform from which to present Maranatha’s educational programs. For AiG staff and families, it represents new avenues to access Maranatha’s premium education offerings through Maranatha’s Online & Distance Learning division.” - MBU

“The current consent decree limits a non-profit’s permissible political activity to ‘(b)ona fide communications internal to a house of worship, between the house of worship and its congregation in connection with religious services through its usual channels of communication on matters of faith.’” - RNS

“This week marks the anniversary of when Bob Jones University, a fundamentalist Christian academic institution based in South Carolina, was found not guilty of violating sex crime reporting laws [2015].” - CPost

“The National Survey of Religious Leaders (NSRL) report revealed 35 percent of all clergy in the U.S. serve bivocationally….Among evangelical Protestants, bivocational ministry is even more common. The study found almost half (47 percent)” - Baptist Press

A lion of the pulpit, now in Christ’s presence - World

John MacArthur leaves legacy ‘on a generation of preachers’ - Baptist Press

“G3 Ministries, a Georgia-based Reformed Baptist organization whose name stands for “Gospel—Grace—Glory,” has named Dr. Scott Aniol as president, effective July 9. The professor, author, and church elder has served as the executive vice president and editor-in-chief at G3 Ministries since 2021.” - C.Leaders

“Regardless whether a church calls it ‘membership’ or ‘partnership,’ here are a few reasons why, if you’re a Christian, you should join yourself to a gospel-believing local church.” - 9 Marks

“Grace to You, the teaching ministry of MacArthur, confirmed in an X post on Monday evening that MacArthur had passed away not long after being hospitalized with pneumonia.” - CPost

“like anything else, ministry-related reading can become a bubble, within which expanded thinking is impossible….More than a decade ago, then still in full-time pastoral ministry, I shifted my reading to include more ‘regular’ history, biographies of not-necessarily-Christian people, fiction, science, and more.” - Baptist Press

“The kingdom of God is more than Presbyterian and Reformed (P&R) denominations, and crossing denominational lines for the sake of a clear and centered gospel ministry is a good thing. Yet the movement needs refreshing.” - Mere Orthodoxy