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Evangelism

New partnership targets biblical literacy

September 1, 2021 By Lisa Misner

Simple motions make Bible memory easy. Cross Church, Carlinville Pastor Tim Rhodus leads a WTB training session at First Marion.

Almost 9-in-10 Americans own a Bible, according to a survey by the American Bible Society, but 5-in-10  Americans say they have read “relatively little of the Bible,” according to Lifeway Research. Despite its ready accessibility through print, websites, and multiple free apps for use on cell phones, there is a lot of biblical illiteracy in […]

Let me ask one question

April 9, 2021 By Sammy Simmons

I left the deacons meeting one proud pastor. It had been a tiring Sunday evening filled with meetings and preaching. However, I went home greatly encouraged by how God was at work using our leaders. In our meeting, five deacons told stories about how they had shared the gospel with someone during the past month. […]

Anxious? Don’t miss your shot!

February 3, 2021 By Sammy Simmons

I got infected with a bad case of “buck fever” this past fall. I had heard about individuals getting so amped seeing horns that they couldn’t shoot straight; but I honestly thought that could never happen to me. I grew up in the country shooting squirrels and skeet. I wrongly assumed that that experience would […]

New life on campus: Collegiate church celebrates first baptisms

September 9, 2020 By Meredith Flynn

Celebrating baptisms

On the shore of Lake Michigan on a Sunday in June, Jeff Bi compared his life to a car. When he was in the driver’s seat, said Bi, a student at the University of Chicago, the side mirrors were gone and the doors were off the hinges. But giving the wheel to Jesus, he said, […]

The day this ‘one’ came to Jesus

September 4, 2020 By Sammy Simmons

Justin was sitting in the hospital waiting room while his 8-year-old daughter was having open heart surgery. That was two-and-a-half years ago, when I first talked with him about spiritual things. And that’s when he became the “one” I was praying for. Not long after that. Justin met me for breakfast at a local restaurant. […]

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