Pastor Connections: Church leadership; salvation & eternity; and more

July 18, 2025

A few tips and more for pastors from pastors and church leaders.

How to pray like Jesus prayed: He prayed privately

July 17, 2025

When Jesus prayed, He prayed most frequently in solitude. Jesus rose early in the morning — before dawn — to commune privately with His heavenly Father.

Former Lookout Mountain moderator, pastor dies

July 17, 2025

Donald Lamar Vaughn of Fort Payne died July 7, after a brief battle with cancer. He was 78.

Persistence: 1st Zoque believers baptized in southern Mexico

July 17, 2025

Over the last 12 years, in raw moments of prayer, Tammy Richardson has wrestled with questions like ‘Should we go somewhere else?’ and ‘Is this ground just too hard?’

Britt, 9 other senators urge release of frozen federal education funding

July 17, 2025

In Alabama, at least $68 million in federal education funding has been withheld from K-12 schools, Alabama Daily News previously reported.

Governor takes action in Christian retreat attack

July 17, 2025

Even though Christians do not plan to prosecute the mob that drove them out of a retreat, the provincial governor says he will pursue legal action.

First person: Growing through the dark nights of the soul

July 17, 2025

From time to time, we all experience periods of deep spiritual anguish. John of the Cross (a 6th-century reformer of the Carmelite way of life) called these times the “Dark Night of the Soul.”