Stress & ministry focus of new study
by Lisa Cannon Green NASHVILLE (BP) -- Though pastors are stressed about money and overwhelming ministry demands, only one percent abandon the pulpit each year, LifeWay Research finds. LifeWay Research surveyed 1,500 pastors of evangelical and historically black...
Clique. Un-clique.
by Diana Davis “We’re a friendly church!” It’s a phrase heard regularly in most churches. Often, the more true statement is, “We’re really friendly with one another.” Is it possible that newcomers at your church or small group perceive your sweet fellowship as...
42 IMB missionaries appointed; Platt addresses trustees
by Laura Fielding FREDERICKSBURG, Va. (BP) -- Growing up in Brazil, Thiago Montanher de Queiroz came to know Christ at 10 years old and early on felt God calling’s to follow Him into international missions. As an adult while attending a local seminary, Montanher had a...
Revitalizing your church
By Ronnie Floyd SPRINGDALE, Ark. (BP) -- Revitalizing a church is an ongoing process and experience, beginning with the pastor and continuing with the church. Without pastor revitalization, there will be no church revitalization. Both pastor and church are in need of...
Five Reasons Pastors Have Guest Blindness
By Thom S. Rainer On my personal blog at ThomRainer.com, I have referred many times to my days of church consultation, particularly those experiences where we sent one of our consultants to be a first-time guest in a church. He or she would return with a report of...
The Explainer: What You Should Know About the Kentucky Clerk Marriage License Controversy
from the Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission What is the story about? When the Supreme Court handed down the Obergefell v. Hodges ruling, it made same-sex marriage legal throughout the U.S. and required every state to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples....
Redemption Hill holds preview service for church plant in Sioux City
Pastor Richard Crowson and a core group of about twenty individuals recently held their preview service for a new church plant in Sioux City Iowa. The group met at the Holiday Inn for a service that Crowson describes as having a warm and exciting spirit. The church...
IMB’s Platt sends open letter to SBC family
by IMB staff RICHMOND, Va. (BP) -- International Mission Board President David Platt released an open letter to Southern Baptists Friday (Sept. 4), related to the organization’s financial plan announced Aug. 27. In the letter, Platt addresses several concerns and...
If David Platt Is Going to Be THAT Kind of Leader….
…then the IMB is going to be in pretty good hands. by Dave Miller If you can get past the cacophony of naysayers questioning every decision he makes, turning every action he takes into some kind of portent of evil, and if you examine the actions he has taken in his...
Iowa Missions Offering Focus: William and Garlinda Hyde
The Iowa Missions Offering is named in honor of two Iowa natives who served as missionaries in the Philippines until Bill was killed in a 2003 terrorist attack in the Manila airport. Bill and Garlinda lived out the vision of preparing and embracing new church leaders...
