In today's Making Disciples Letter, Al Stanford thanks the Independent Tribune for publishing the Making Disciplines Letter ...

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Imagine walking through life without the Holy Spirit. No inner guide. No advocate. No quiet voice in your spirit convicting ...

It happens to all of us, now and again, when a song’s melody or lyrics get stuck in one’s head. It is called an earworm, which Wikipedia describes as “that ...

“The flames of love of the Sacred Heart of Jesus,” he said, “expand through the Church’s missionary outreach, which proclaims ...

And this was done, even with a visible appearance of fire, on the day of Pentecost.” Some UMC churches spent the day ...

We would never flip a coin on such important things. And yet, in the Bible, people did just that. You actually see them ...

A fire-and-brimstone preacher, he reached millions and made millions in a global enterprise before tumbling from grace over ...

A. The Holy Ghost appeared at times under the form of a dove, and again under the form of tongues of fire; for, being a pure spirit without a body, He can take any form. Q. 422.

Our soldiers responded without hesitation, killing several enemy fighters and capturing a Taliban machine gunner. At that ...

At youth group and church camp, I learned to perform my own unworthiness. It took years to recognize the spiritual harm ...