15 Ways to Improve Your Preaching or Teaching
By Chuck Lawless I’m a professor who doesn’t like course evaluations and a preacher who doesn’t enjoy sermon critiques. So, I’m leery of telling others how to improve their preaching or teaching. Nevertheless, here are 15 ways (some that are perhaps surprising) to...
Ronnie Floyd: Reflections on our 2015 Southern Baptist Convention
By Ronnie Floyd My heart is overflowing with gratitude to our great God for meeting with us in Columbus in a powerful manner. People came with great expectation and prayerfully returned to their churches resounding with great hope. I want to share a few reflections...
Columbus Discoveries: What an ‘unlikely convert’ told the Southern Baptist Convention
by Meredith Flynn, Illinois Baptist State Association Columbus, Ohio -- The most personal testimony shared publicly during the 2015 Southern Baptist Convention in Columbus, Ohio, came from a source most Baptists probably had never heard of prior to the meeting....
Faithful Readiness: an emergency readiness workshop
A collaborative effort between the FEMA, U.S. Department of Homeland Security Center for Faith-based & Neighborhood Partnerships, and state and local partners. Tuesday, June 30, 2015 9:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m. St. Andrew’s Episcopal Church 925 South 84th Street (NE...
Danger Close
Editors note: Cornerstone Church of Ames Iowa is hosting a church safety and security conference on Saturday August 8th from 9am to 5pm. All training sessions and lunch are included for just $30. To register please visit: www.kingdomshield.org/safety-conference....
Completely Changed
Have you ever done something that completely changed your life? Find out how you can change the world. About IMB Students imbStudents is the student and young adult mobilization ministry of IMB, providing international mission opportunities throughout the world for...
SBC panel: Value love, Gospel with LGBT community
by Tom Strode COLUMBUS, Ohio (BP) -- Christians should not undervalue the effect of love or the Gospel in relating to gays and lesbians, recognizing, however, that faithfulness to the biblical definition of marriage will prove costly, members of a special panel told...
WRAP-UP: SBC seeks awakening, supports marriage
by David Roach COLUMBUS, Ohio (BP) -- Spiritual awakening, the defense of marriage and the preservation of religious liberty were among key themes addressed by messengers at the Southern Baptist Convention annual meeting June 16-17 in Columbus, Ohio. The meeting was...
Leaving Baptist in your church name won’t scare people away
Americans favor Baptist, Catholic churches more than nondenominational congregations. By Morgan Lee, Christianity Today Last year, the National Association of Evangelicals asked its members if they included denominational affiliation in the name of their church. Well...
‘What if?’ asked at Send North America Luncheon
by Joe Conway COLUMBUS, Ohio (BP) -- "What if?" That was the question posed to more than 2,600 attendees of the June 15 Send North America Luncheon at the SBC Pastors' Conference in the Greater Columbus Convention Center, host to the annual meeting of the Southern...
