Randy McPheron’s return to the pastorate wasn’t something he expected. But since being called as pastor of Bethel Baptist ...

Christian leaders gathered outside the U.S. Capitol building this week to call for more solidarity with LGBTQ people. We look at the conversations Black churches are having.

(Reading: Genesis 16:1-17:27; 21:8-20) This week and next we’ll address what might be called “Abraham and the Child Problem.” We’ll see the human solution … and the divine one.

God calls Abram in faith to pick up and leave “your land, your relatives, and from your father’s house to a land that I will show you” (12:1).

God’s Promise Revealed. Hebrews 11:8 says it was by faith Abraham obeyed the call to go to a place that he was to receive as an inheritance, not even knowing where he was going. And as he went, God ...