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*How do preachers, particularly megachurch pastors, prepare for sermons every week? Where do they get their ideas? Do they ever get nervous? And how do they deal with both criticism and praise? (Are you a fan of EURweb? Like us on Facebook or Follow us on Twitter.) According to The Christian Post, those are some of the [...]
*Atlanta based mega-church pastor Creflo Dollar is planning to build another mega-church in New York City. According to the NY Post, Dollar made a presentation to purchase Kingsbridge Armory in the Bronx and hopes to turn the facility into an arena sized worship center. Once source said, “He’s got a huge following and needs an [...]
*Bishop Eddie Long is launching satellite branches of his Lithonia, GA-based New Birth Missionary Baptist Church, and announced Sunday that the first one is in Birmingham, Ala. The church is called New Birth Birmingham, reports the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. And New Birth Denver is currently in the works. Long also said the Lithonia megachurch recently received [...]
*Being a pastor of a church pays, especially a megachurch. While hundreds of churches across the U.S. have experienced some hardship, along with their congregations, others have apparently prospered. The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reports: “In metro Atlanta and elsewhere, the number of megachurches, which have long been defined as having a weekly attendance of 2,000 or [...]
*CNN is reporting that two Georgia men have filed a lawsuit claiming that Atlanta megachurch pastor Eddie Long coerced them into sex. The suits, filed Tuesday in DeKalb County, Georgia, allege that Long used his position as a spiritual authority and bishop to coerce young male members and employees of his New Birth Missionary Baptist [...]
*For the first time ever, two of the most dynamic mega church preachers came together in a joint effort in Texas at Lakewood Church, and the result were tremendous. Pastor Joel Osteen asked Bishop T.D. Jakes of Dallas to preach. So why is that such a big deal and how did it happen? KTRK-TV talked [...]
*Megachurch, meet microchurch. Growing numbers of Coloradans believe the tiny house church, also called a simple church or an organic church, might be the mightier transformer of Christian lives. A recliner becomes a pulpit. A sofa and some armchairs serve as pews. Where two or more people are gathered in his name, Jesus said, there [...]
*It was an unusual Sunday morning worship at Northwood Church in Keller, Texas. Christians, Muslims and Jews sat together in the megachurch to hear an evangelical pastor preach about Jesus. The three faith groups had already visited the Islamic Center of Irving the previous day and the Temple Shalom of North Dallas on Friday before [...]
*Pastor Rick Warren has a message for the some 20,000 people who attend Saddleback Church: If you want to remain a passive Christian, find another church. During his weekend sermon, Warren laid out a plan for Saddleback’s next “Decade of Destiny” in which he’s anticipating exponential growth. And the plan has no room for fake [...]
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