National CP 7.19% ahead of projection
by Baptist Press Staff NASHVILLE (BP) -- Year-to-date contributions to Southern Baptist Convention national and international missions and ministries received by the SBC Executive Committee are 7.19 percent above the year-to-date budgeted projection and 1.46 percent...
Highlights of The 2016 Southern Baptist Convention #SBC16
By Ronnie Floyd Dr. Ronnie Floyd is currently serving as the President of the Southern Baptist Convention, and is senior pastor of the multi-campus Cross Church in northwest Arkansas. This column first appeared at Ronnie Floyd's website, www.ronniefloyd.com.
Disciples making disciples at the Salt Company – Iowa City
by Shannon Ness, The Salt Company Iowa City Coordinator In February, we had our first leadership meeting for the semester. During the meeting, we specifically focused on challenging students to question the meaning of discipleship. We laughed as students shared...
Salt Company Spring Conference – Iowa City
by Shannon Ness, The Salt Company Iowa City Coordinator In February the Salt Company hosted their Spring Conference. Over 1200 students from across the state gathered to worship Jesus. We were happy to see that 200 students from the University of Iowa attended the...
Baptized Bodyguards and the Providence of God
By Todd Stiles We had climbed five flights of narrow stairs, some in the dark, before we ended up in a small room, perhaps 12 x 12, where gathered was about 20 believers. They were part of this house fellowship in south Asia—a church no less—and present were more than...
Five ways Christianity is increasingly viewed as extremist
by Barna Reasearch Society is undergoing a change of mind about the way religion and people of faith intersect with public life. That is, there are intensifying perceptions that faith is at the root of a vast number of societal ills. Though it remains the nation’s...
Ten comments from happy church guests
By Thom S. Rainer I recently looked at my file of church guest “exit interviews.” These files originated when I did a lot of church consulting, but it also includes some recent consults. In essence, my team asked guests to attend a worship service on the same day to...
Check out this video of Baptisms at Candeo Church in February
Candeo Baptisms: Feb 2016 from Candeo Church on Vimeo.
Peoplegroups.info helps believers reach the nations for Christ
A cooperative project of the North American Mission Board and the International Mission Board is a tool for international evangelism By K. Faith Morgan In many ways, the ministries of the North American Mission Board (NAMB) and the International Mission Board (IMB)...
Southern Baptists respond to Flint water crisis
By Tobin Perry FLINT, Mich. – Charnisha Brown could describe in one word her feeling when she first realized that the water coming out of her pipes was contaminated—devastated. “It was devastating to me because of the kids—especially my kids,” said Brown, a Flint,...
