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Ashland Avenue Baptist Church in Lexington has now helped two churches launch and become self-sustaining through its campus-to-plant model.

Members of White’s Chapel United Methodist Church, a large congregation in this wealthy Dallas suburb, overwhelmingly voted earlier this month to disaffiliate from the United Methodist Church.

As president of the Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission (ERLC), Leatherwood traveled from Nashville to the capital “to discuss some of the pressing issues our convention of churches cares about,” he said in a Nov. 16 Twitter thread.

John Blanchard, the Virginia pastor who was arrested in a sex sting operation only to have his charges later dropped, is once more stepping away from his duties as lead pastor of Rock Church International in Virginia Beach. In a statement posted Wednesday, the church asked believers “not to condemn.”

On a recent episode of “Ask Pastor John,” John Piper responds to a listener who frets that she doesn’t “seem to have any spiritual gifts.” The woman, who is a Christian, admits, “I really feel like a talent-less and sinful mess! Does this mean that the Spirit does not actually dwell in me?

Franklin Graham, outspoken president and CEO of Samaritan’s Purse, weighed in on the most recent Candace Cameron Bure controversy, which arose after Bure made comments regarding traditional marriage.

On Thursday, many Christian influencers began responding to reports that Twitter might soon become unavailable in light of the myriad employee departures from the company.

When he served as the narrator for the Zo language translation of the world-famous "Jesus" Film, Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary student Mang Siing became a part of history. The effort marked the film’s 2,000th available language.