One Sentence That Pastors and Church Staff Hate to Hear
By Thom S. Rainer The moment they hear it, they feel the “cringe factor” throughout their body. Even as the first few words are spoken, the recipient feels his or her emotions plummeting. It is the one sentence that is uniformly dreaded by pastors and church staff. It...
2014 BCI Pastor’s Survey
By Tim Lubinus, BCI Executive Director/Treasurer Recently I sent a survey to nearly 100 of our pastors and other leaders and asked them to pick among a list of books as a gift for participating in the survey. Funding was made possible by NAMB. Here are the results of...
Observations about Trials
By Todd Stiles Here are four observations about trials we glean from Hebrews 3:7-19. Trials are essentially spiritual crossroads. The testing of our faith is always a fork in the road, an intersection of sorts where we must put what we believe into practice....
Open Letter to Iowa Baptists from Dwight and Mara Williams, IMB Missionaries serving in Spain
Dear Brothers and Sisters in the Iowa Baptist Convention, Greetings from the Blue Ridge Mountains of western Virginia! We are currently on a stateside assignment, serving as Missionaries in Residence at Bluefield College, Bluefield, Virginia. We have been here since...
Missionaries say thank you!
Thanks to your gifts to the Lottie Moon Christmas Offering® missionaries serving all over Europe are able to live among peoples that desperately need to hear the Gospel. You are apart of God's Story through your prayers and your support of the task of reaching all...
Christmas Fear or Christmas Faith?
By Todd Stiles There’s something I want you to know about fear: While it is no doubt unfruitful, it is rarely unfounded. In other words, there usually are some human reasons fear raises its ugly head. Take Mary, the mother of Jesus and wife of Joseph, for an example....
Send Conference Rate Change Coming January 3
CONFERENCE PRICE INCREASES $40 on JANUARY 3, 2015! REGISTER NOW! The 2015 Send North America Conference registration is off to an incredible start! We are extremely excited about our time together on August 3-4, 2015at the Bridgestone Arena in Nashville. We wanted to...
NAMB staff gives back to community during day of service
By NAMB Staff ALPHARETTA, Ga. – Whatever it takes is one of the North American Mission Board’s operating values. Staff are reminded that the board exists to serve Southern Baptists and Southern Baptist churches. Giving back to the community in service was a tangible...
Floyd calls Baptists to racially reconcile
by Diana Chandler SPRINGDALE, Ark. (BP) -- Southern Baptist pastor Terry Turner has a newspaper clipping from the early 1900s telling of a family member taken from jail by a mob of southern whites and lynched, never tried or convicted of a crime. Turner's memory of...
Two students with ties to Iowa graduate from Southern Seminary
Mohler offers ‘Christmas mandate’ to fall 2014 graduates at Southern Seminary By S. Craig Sanders Two students with ties to Iowa graduated from The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, Dec. 12. Among the graduates were Gregory B. Long of Des Moines, and Zach Vester...
