First-Person: The challenge of first sermons
I’ve given up trying to determine if a sermon is good or not.
Softball coach finds kingdom purpose after canceled season
SANTA CLARITA, Calif. (BP) — Sometimes the news you never wanted to hear isn’t the end of something; it’s an invitation to join God’s mission in a new way.
Hunt trial on hold for now
NASHVILLE (BP) – In an order issued Monday, May 12, Judge William L. Campbell Jr. announced that the jury trial in the lawsuit brought by Johnny Hunt against the Southern Baptist Convention and others has been canceled. The trial was set to begin June 17.
Plenty of chances for SBC25 messengers to celebrate CP’s 100th birthday
DALLAS (BP) – As early as 1884, Southern Baptist mission leaders sensed a need for something other than “spasmodic” giving to fund denominational work at home and abroad.
Church hopes merger will ‘be a model of Heaven on Earth’
SEAGOVILLE, Texas (BP) – In 2021, Trinity Love Church and Robinwood Baptist Church were two congregations with desires for active ministry, but facing different issues. Trinity Love needed space while Robinwood had enough to spare. The way both found an answer spoke to the respective leadership as well as the role of the local association.
SBC leaders gather for a Declaration of Cooperation to mark the Cooperative Program’s 100th anniversary
MEMPHIS (BP) – The Ellis Auditorium was brand new May 13, 1925, when Southern Baptists met on a spring afternoon and voted to begin the Cooperative Program. Today (May 13), though the auditorium is gone, Southern Baptists gathered a just few yards away from the original location to recommit to cooperative partnership.
10 ways to become a Great Commission Christian
I admit the topic of this blogpost might not quickly grab your attention – but I challenge you to keep reading. The world needs us to have this discussion. In fact, our basic Christian obedience is at stake if we ignore this topic.
Raleigh children’s pastor arrested on child exploitation charges
WAKE FOREST, N.C. — A children’s pastor at a Triangle area church has been arrested for distributing child sexual abuse material involving a young girl.
State of the Bible shows U.S. outlier in biblical reverence in ‘secular west’
PHILADELPHIA (BP) – From a global vantage point unique to its study of the Bible’s impact on U.S. adults, the American Bible Society (ABS) said Americans revere Scripture, faith and church more than others in a geographical cluster described as the “secular west.”