Resolve to read the Bible
by Redunda Noble MEMPHIS, Tenn. (BP) -- It is that time of year again -- the time when Americans have made New Year's resolutions. We've promised to eat healthier foods, exercise more and lose weight. Most of us, though, have fallen prey to the never-ending cycle of...
CP 3.11 percent ahead of 2013 pace
By BP Staff NASHVILLE (BP) --Year-to-date contributions through the Southern Baptist Convention's portion of the Cooperative Program are 3.11 percent ahead of the same time frame at the end of 2013 and 3.84 percent under the SBC Cooperative Program Allocation Budget...
A New Year!
By Chris McRae, BCI Discipleship Team Leader A New Year! What’s that all about? It’s kind of arbitrary when you think about it, isn’t it? Someone, someplace, a long time ago in a galaxy far, far away decided that the lunar cycles and the solar cycle ought to line up....
WMU Western Regional Leadership Summit
Date: February 19–21, 2015 Location: Del Norte Baptist Church Albuquerque, New Mexico Cost: Registration fee is $49 per person until January 15, 2015, or $59 after January 15. Register Now! Hotel reservations are separate from event registration. Special room rates...
Discussion Forum with Kevin Ezell changed to Video Conference
Dr. Kevin Ezell has accepted an interim pastor position at a church whose pastor has recently passed away. Therefore, he will not be able to personally attend the previously scheduled discussion forum. However, the discussion will continue in a video conference...
Retired Texas school teacher plants Denver church, baptizes 60 in two years
By Tobin Perry AURORA, Colo. – Mike Alexander never attended seminary. He had never pastored a church. He didn’t even know what a church planter did. That is, until he became one. Now, about two years after arriving in Aurora, Colo., and about 23 months after he...
ERLC Leadership Summit 2015
The 2015 ERLC Leadership Summit will address "The Gospel and Racial Reconciliation" to equip Christians to apply the gospel on these issues with convictional kindness in their communities, their families, and their churches. Recent events in Ferguson and with Eric...
Pastor Paul Dykstra retires from Grace Church, Des Moines
By Pastor Phil Winfield, Senior Pastor Grace Church Des Moines On Sunday January 4, with both sadness and conviction, Pastor Paul Dykstra read his resignation and retirement letter from his position of Administrative Pastor at Grace Church. The primary factor in his...
Nine Observations about Announcements in Worship Services
By Thom S. Rainer To have or not to have announcements in the worship services? That is the question many church leaders ask today. And indeed there are several tendencies or trends related to announcements, and they are often related to the size of the church. I...
Church’s journey to embrace begins with prayer
By Paige Turner SOUTHEAST ASIA – When Mark Harrison began praying about embracing an unreached, unengaged people group with the Gospel, he had no idea where to start. “I was desperate,” he said. “What do you do? Throw a dart at the map?” Harrison, missions pastor at...
