Connections

The newest group from Elevation Worship Records, Elevation Rhythm, recently released their new debut LP titled Growing Pains.

For years, others have asked Gail Song Bantum and Brian Bantum to reveal the secret to their marriage as a multiracial Christian couple with high-profile ministry callings.

They're doing that in their new book, Choosing Us: Marriage and Mutual Flourishing in a World of Difference.

Alicia Dougherty and her husband, Josh, experienced nine years of infertility and losses.

They knew that they wanted to be parents, so they started looking into foster care and adoption.

Becoming a movie star, and achieving fame, was something that Joshua Broome dreamed of from an early age. 

He started acting and modelling at 15 years old before heading to college, where he studied theatre for two years. 

The first thing most people notice when they meet Kechi Okwuchi is her scars.

Okwuchi is just one of two survivors of the devastating Sosoliso Airlines Flight 1145 plane crash on December 10, 2005, that killed more than one hundred people. Kechi was just sixteen years old when the crash happened.

In 2009, Adam Davis raised his right hand and swore an oath to serve his community as a law enforcement officer.

He started as a night shift patrol and worked his way to day patrol. From there he worked in homicide, criminal investigations and hostage negotiations. 

After seeing a crisis in the making, Dr. Robert Petterson knew something needed to be done.

Recognizing that a large amount of Millennials, Gen Z’s and younger are disconnected from a growing Christian faith, Dr. Robert Petterson has founded a new ministry to help grandparents of faith, most of whom are not technology savvy, reach their digital native grandchildren with the Gospel message and biblical values.

After 40 years as a Presbyterian pastor, Douglas Brouwer faced an existential crisis that would likely come as a big surprise to those outside the clergy.

What did all the hard work on evenings, weekends and holidays, away from his family, amount to? And in the current age of shrinking mainline churches, what could he point to as the end result of his decades in ministry?

"I was a Presbyterian pastor for 40 years. I loved most of it, barely tolerated some of it, and was grateful to be finished with much of it,” Brouwer explains.

As parents, we either raise kids who are dependent on us, or we raise kids who grow into confident and capable adults. It all comes down to helping them develop their mindsets, skill sets, and toolsets.

Parents of Gen Z and late Millennial children have real concerns about how to launch their kids into adulthood and whether they’ll be ready.  

It was a couple of days after the war began in Ukraine that Tommy Iceland, an Iceland-born, Sweden-raised, and now Nashville-based songwriter, was prompted by God to record a new version of “Whom Shall I Fear (God Of Angel Armies).”