Spiritual Gifts Plain and Simple
By Todd Stiles It was a Thursday, and it seemed that most of my hours were spent processing what I knew was best but didn’t necessarily like. Ever had one of those moments? Days? Weeks? On the outside, I appeared fine. And in all reality, I was. Why? Because I knew...
Beware of Neo-Fundamentalism
By Tim Lubinus, BCI Executive Director/Treasurer In the last few weeks I’ve spoken with two pastors who have wanted to leave their so-called fundamentalist churches and approached me to consider joining with the Baptist Convention of Iowa (BCI). They indicted that...
LESSON ONE: Cultural Missions Experience – West African Truckers
Dear parents, big brothers and sisters, aunts and uncles, Africa Stories has joined together with Kids on Mission to share these missions experiences for children. Consider sharing these lessons with the kids in your life. Travel with them on a road trip through West...
Mission:Dignity payouts increase to recipients
By Judy A. Bates DALLAS —Mission:Dignity recipients received a welcome surprise in their October assistance payments: The neediest recipients saw their monthly grant amounts grow to $450 for singles and $600 for couples. Qualified individuals receiving the largest...
Advance 2015 – The Midwest Leadership Conference
January 20 - 22, 2015 Crowne Plaza Hotel Springfield, IL The Midwest has its own culture and worldview, and for Baptists in the region, its own spiritual challenges. This year our triennial gathering, the North Central States Rally, becomes the Midwest Leadership...
CP Ends Fiscal Year Below Budget Goal
By Baptist Press Staff NASHVILLE (BP) -- The Southern Baptist Convention ended its fiscal year 0.76 percent below last year's contributions and missed its Cooperative Program allocation budgeted projection of $191.5 million by 2.58 percent, according to SBC Executive...
Our Church-Centric Mindset
By Kevin Ezell I love visiting with pastors and local churches. But often when I do a pastor will tell me, “Let me know if there is anything we can do for NAMB.” I appreciate the spirit behind that offer, but it is exactly opposite of how I view NAMB. The way I see...
Preserve CP’s reach
by Frank S. Page NASHVILLE (BP) -- The longer we live, the more we realize that actions or decisions have consequences -- sometimes unintended consequences that absolutely cannot be foretold or foreseen. But more often they are foreseeable. Scripture instructs the...
Leaders in Training: preteens serve inner-city San Antonio
By Jane Rodgers SAN ANTONIO (Southern Baptist Texan) -- The sullen teenager cracked a smile when an exuberant fifth grader handed him a nametag sporting a smiley face. At 14, he was too old for Kids Power Camp at San Antonio's Riverside apartments, but he was tagging...
Pastor Appreciation Month: 5 Ways to Say Thanks
by Thom S. Rainer Here are a few tips on how you can speak your pastor's love language. With apologies to Gary Chapman for playing on his well-known Five Love Languages theme, I asked 24 pastors how a church member might speak to each pastor in his own love language....
