MUNCIE— Acquire the Fire youth ministry is back in Muncie this weekend, gathering thousands of young people in Worthen Arena for what its website bills as “a highly charged spiritual event.”

The two-day rally has become a repeat visitor to Muncie, using Ball State University as one of its many venues nationwide for years …

By Ron Luce, Christian Post Guest Columnist

By Ryan Wagoner The Shorthorn staff

Acquire the Fire, a national Christian-based event, is taking place at 6 p.m. on April 5 in College Park Center, featuring live performances, speakers and dramatic skits for students.

The two-day event with the theme “Relentless Pursuit” is focused on bringing lasting life changes through exciting worship and powerful …

By BILL SHERMAN World Religion Writer

Close to 8,000 young people filled the Mabee Center on the Oral Roberts University campus with clapping, singing and shouting this weekend during the annual Acquire the Fire youth conference, one of 33 such conferences being held around the nation this year.

On Friday night, Acquire the Fire founder …

She may be only 12, but Effie Phernella Tripp already knows her life’s purpose.

“I want to be a missionary,” she says, without a second’s hesitation. She’s beginning the work early by helping wherever she sees a need.

Just hours after returning from a church-organized mission trip to Kansas City where she helped in a …

Parents are being warned, again, to beware of what their children see, because adolescent behavior follows what they view on the silver screen, i.e., the more sex they see the more they’ll act out.

The word comes in a report from the Association of Psychological Science, which cites a Dartmouth study on the behavior of …

The T.A.G. Teen Ministry at the Word of God Church recently attended Extreme Camps.

“We had a glorious time with five days of spiritual exhortation, feeding of the Word, exalting our Lord and showing the love of God to our brothers and sisters in Christ and the lost at camp. We had a commitment as …

Sleep, rise, lounge, play, eat, repeat. Such is the norm for the people in the Third World country of Haiti. When people don’t have the means, money or motivation to make a life for themselves, simplicity is really the only choice.

While such poverty doesn’t seem feasible to most of America, it’s the usual for …

Teen Mania is an international youth ministry organization that holds youth rallies all over the country and sends teenagers on mission trips all over the world. The ministry impacts thousands of people each year. Founder and president Ron Luce talked about why he started the organization and how he stays relevant to youth culture.

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