Transitioning to 2016
By Tim Lubinus, BCI Executive Director/Treasurer The heart of man plans his way, but the Lord establishes his steps (Proverbs 16:9) A new year’s holiday is a fitting time to both review our plans and acknowledge the One who establishes our steps. A deliberate planning...
Tired of the life he was living, Danny was ready for a change – The Salt Company Iowa City
By Shannon Ness, Salt Company Coordinator Danny was fully embracing the party scene at the University of Iowa. For the majority of his nights, he would stay out until three or four in the morning living an unhealthy lifestyle full of lying and cheating. He found...
2016 SBC Church Compensation Survey kicks off January 1
DALLAS — GuideStone Financial Resources, along with LifeWay Research and Baptist state conventions, will open the biennial SBC Church Compensation Survey in 2016. Ministers and church employees are invited to participate in the survey, a resource used by churches of...
January prayer focus: ‘In All Things Pray’
By Art Toalston NASHVILLE (BP) -- January is a distinctive month of prayer across the Southern Baptist Convention. It is a time when a readiness to pray can gain new traction in churches, large or small, urban or rural. Listed as the "Call to Prayer" on the SBC...
Campus ministry: Changing lives for a lifetime
by Rebecca Wolford NEWARK, Del. (BP) -- Ask Blake Hardcastle, director of the University of Delaware Baptist Student Ministry, for the best way to engage 22,000 college students with the Gospel, and his answer is clear -- reach them where they are, on campus. This...
5 Reflections in 2015 About Our Southern Baptist Convention
By Ronnie Floyd Serving as the President of the Southern Baptist Convention has been one of the greatest privileges and responsibilities in my life. I have now served for eighteen months in this role. In my final article in 2015 to our Southern Baptist Family, I want...
5 Facts about Lottie Moon
Every December for the past 127 years, Southern Baptist churches around the world collect millions of dollars for missions through the Lottie Moon Christmas offering. Here are five facts about the missionary Lottie Moon. 1. Charlotte Digges "Lottie" Moon was born in...
First days of Jesus’ life explored
By David Roach NASHVILLE (BP) -- Everyone knows the biblical Christmas story, with Mary riding on a donkey, an innkeeper turning away Mary and Joseph, animals surrounding the Christ child and three wise men visiting Jesus on the night of His birth. Or do they? It may...
‘Christmas Eve Eve’ is church’s ‘what could be’
By Lee Weeks JACKSONVILLE, Fla. (BP) -- At the upcoming "Christmas Eve Eve" service at the Florida Theatre in downtown Jacksonville, church planter Boyd Bettis plans to ask the audience to consider "what could be." Each time he has prayerfully asked that question,...
Owen Strachan announced as speaker for Pastor & Wives Retreat
The Pastor & Wives Retreat will be held April 1 & 2nd at the Hilton Garden Inn in Urbandale. Owen Strachan is Associate Professor of Christian Theology and Director of The Center for Theological and Cultural Engagement at Midwestern Baptist Theological...
