Melissa Barnhart
Managing Editor
Melissa Barnhart serves as Managing Editor for The Christian Post. She graduated from Liberty University with a bachelor of science degrees in government, religion and communications. Ms. Barnhart began her reporting career while still in college by working for a local newspaper outside Dallas, Texas, where she interviewed pastors, politicians, Olympic gold medalist Jennie Finch, a U.S. women's softball player in the 2004 Olympic Games, and former President of Mexico Vicente Fox. She joined The Christian Post in 2013.
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Ahead of his speech Saturday at the Fourth Lausanne Congress on World Evangelization, Rick Warren, founder of Saddleback Church in California, warned believers must re-evangelize nominal Christians to fulfill the Great Commission, adding that some followers of Christ have traded "spiritual power for political influence."
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The Lausanne Congress apologized Wednesday to the many delegates who were offended by a speaker’s comments rebuking dispensational eschatology and her claim that Israel was holding hostages.
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“God is for sex.” That was the clear message from the Rev. Canon Vaughan Roberts, rector of St Ebbe's Church in Oxford, England, who advised Christians globally on how to respond to the myriad harms caused by sexual revolution and the distortion of God’s created order.
Lausanne 4: Michael Oh reveals 4 most-dangerous words affecting the global Church
Michael Oh, global executive director of the Lausanne Movement, called on the 5,000 Christians gathered from over 200 countries at the Fourth Lausanne Congress on World Evangelization believers this week to humble themselves and work together to spread the Gospel worldwide effectively, urging them to repent of four things.
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Three Christians known for being outspoken on hot topics, particularly on abortion, have rebuked Golden State Warriors star Steph Curry for supporting Vice President Kamala Harris for president because of her position on this issue.
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Prosperity preacher Kenneth Copeland thanked Jesus for a dying man’s seed offering of a Bentley with a Breitling clock that was given in the hope that it would bring healing.
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