The Church Under Fire: Responding to Rising Aggression with Gospel Resilience

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What happens when the place you go for refuge becomes a target? In January 2026, Windwood Free Will Baptist Church in Oklahoma City—a community cornerstone serving as a voting precinct, school pickup site, and tornado relief center for 30 years—was vandalized and set on fire. Graffiti scarred its walls, flames gutted its interior. Yet the […]

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The Masculinity Crisis in the Church: Why Men Are Leaving and the Manosphere Is Winning

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Picture this: a young man scrolls through his feed, bombarded by Andrew Tate’s bravado and Jordan Peterson’s calls to responsibility. He’s hungry for purpose, strength, something that makes him feel like a man in a world that seems to have forgotten what that means. Now imagine he walks into your average church on Sunday. What

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Stop Treating Church Like Networking — The Surprising Power of ‘Shallow’ Friendships

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The loneliness epidemic is killing us. According to the U.S. Surgeon General, loneliness carries the same health risk as smoking 15 cigarettes a day. A 2023 Cigna study found that 58% of Americans report feeling lonely, with young adults experiencing the highest rates. We’re more connected than ever — and more isolated than we’ve ever

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Why the Church Lost Its Prayer Book — And How Reviving the Psalms Could Spark the Next Revival

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Imagine a church where every service begins not with a worship band, but with the raw, unfiltered cries of the Psalms. Where believers don’t just sing about God — they pray the very words He gave them to pray. Where the ancient songs of David shape modern hearts, turning spectators into participants in the greatest

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365 Million Persecuted Christians Are Growing the Church Faster Than We Are

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Here’s a number that should wreck every comfortable Christian in America: 365 million believers worldwide face high levels of persecution for their faith. According to Christianity Today’s latest global persecution report, the church is under fire in ways most of us can’t imagine. House churches raided. Pastors imprisoned. Bibles confiscated. Families torn apart for the

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Gen Z Is Rejecting Religion but Searching for God — And That Should Change How We Do Church

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Something unexpected is happening right now. The generation that pollsters call “the least religious in American history” is also the most spiritually hungry. Gen Z is walking away from church buildings — but they are not walking away from God. And if we’re honest, the question that should keep every pastor, every small group leader,

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