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Oct 7, 2024 | 
christianstandard.com | Ginny McCabe |Christian Standard
By Ginny McCabeRed Brush Christian Church in Louisville, Illinois, has a successful youth training program called “Step Forward: Teach Them to Follow. Teach Them to Lead.”The program is intentionally raising up students to be leaders in the church. It’s also teaching them to make disciples. As a result, many of the youth go on to Bible college or pursue full-time ministry.
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Jul 8, 2024 | 
christianstandard.com | Chris Moon |Christian Standard
By Chris MoonJohnson University Florida is no more. On July 1, the Knoxville, Tenn.-based university sold its 40-acre campus in Kissimmee, Fla. – originally owned by Florida Christian College – to the local county government there. The purchase price was $28 million. It marks the end of Johnson University’s decade-long ownership of the campus, which it acquired in 2013 when Florida Christian College fell on hard times.
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May 28, 2024 | 
christianstandard.com | Chris Moon |Christian Standard
By Chris Moon One year ago, Metamora Church of Christ decided to shut its doors. The church had seen its congregation dwindle to just a handful of members in its rural Indiana town of about 200 residents. The church didn’t have the resources to cover the cost of its building. It was a stretch to pay the insurance and to keep the propane tank full. And the lawn still needed to be mowed. Founded in 1841, time finally had run out on Metamora Church of Christ.
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Feb 12, 2024 | 
christianstandard.com | Chris Moon |Christian Standard
By Chris Moon People can sometimes get stuck in their spiritual growth. They start out well. They attend church, read their Bibles, and join a small group. And then? They stall out. Something causes the good work they were doing to grind to a halt. They stop the practices that were moving them forward. And, so, they don’t move forward. They’re stuck.
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Oct 17, 2023 | 
christianstandard.com | Chris Moon |Christian Standard
By Chris Moon Tim Harlow is retiring at the end of this month after 33 years as senior pastor at Parkview Christian Church in Orland Park, Ill. Harlow led the suburban Chicago church as it grew from just 150 people in 1990 to well more than 8,000 at its pre-pandemic height. The church has spent years as one of the largest and fastest growing in the nation. But at 62, Harlow is stepping away.
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Sep 12, 2023 | 
christianstandard.com | Chris Moon |Christian Standard
By Chris Moon Lincoln Christian University is entering the second year of a massive overhaul of its educational model. And it’s doing so with a mixed bag of early results. Since eliminating all its non-ministry degree programs and focusing heavily on its seminary offerings—after years of lagging enrollment and finances—the university still isn’t hitting its enrollment goals. Total enrollment this year is expected to reach 190.
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Aug 31, 2023 | 
christianstandard.com | Michael Mack |Christian Standard
I posted this article by Michael C. Mack on Aug. 25, 2010. Exactly 13 years later, on Aug. 25, 2023, I posted the news of his death, which occurred last Thursday (Aug. 24). Mike, 63, had served as editor of Christian Standard since 2017. This article was adapted from his Small Group Help Guide titled I’m a Leader . . . Now What? (Standard Publishing—now out of print). I think you will immediately connect with the poignancy of this post. —Jim Nieman, managing editor– – –By Michael MackAug. 29, 2010; p.
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Aug 25, 2023 | 
christianstandard.com | Jerry Harris |Christian Standard
By Jerry Harris It’s very hard to put into words my feelings upon hearing of the passing of Mike Mack on Thursday, Aug. 24. I am grieving the sudden loss of a friend and coworker even as I rejoice in his being welcomed to glory. As editor of Christian Standard since 2017, Mike was everything for the magazine that I am not. Among those strengths was gently but firmly guiding me to adhere to deadlines. Mike was a people person. His thoughtfulness for others was beyond my abilities.
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Aug 22, 2023 | 
christianstandard.com | Chris Moon |Christian Standard
By Chris Moon A new class at Johnson University examines God’s care for the nonhuman world—and is catching a degree of criticism for it. Dr. Joe Gordon, professor of theology at the Knoxville, Tenn.-based college, said his Creaturely Theology class is designed to show students how Scripture points to God’s love, care, and sustenance for all of creation. God’s people always have sought to better understand nonhuman creatures and their habitats, Gordon said.
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Jun 21, 2023 | 
christianstandard.com | Laura Wood |Christian Standard
By Laura McKillip Wood Joe Garman started American Rehabilitation Ministries (ARM) in 1973. Later, the ministry’s name was changed to ARM Prison Outreach. On May 11, the ministry celebrated its 50th anniversary at its offices in Joplin, Mo. Garman never intended for prison ministry to be his life’s work, however. Not long ago for the Our American Stories podcast*, he told an interviewer the story of how God set him on a new ministry path. . . .
