At a time when many churches are struggling to reach people with the Gospel and Christianity is increasingly strange to the culture, Baptists meeting in Baltimore were called to repent earnestly, pray fervently, and long deeply for the power and presence of God. Read more at IB2news.org. 

Theologian, author, and speaker Leonard Sweet describes himself as a semiotician, "one who reads the signs of the times," and believes the key to determining where those signs are pointing is to see where Jesus is. "He is the ultimate sign," said Sweet. "He is there [in the future] before us." Sweet sees two major developments coming and gives ways congregations and leaders can respond at FactsandTrends.net.