by Tom Strode NASHVILLE (BP) — For seminary student Jamin Eben, the inaugural Student Leadership Conference cosponsored by two Southern Baptist entities proved doubly beneficial. Eben, a third-year master of divinity...
Read Moreby Lonnie Wilkey/Baptist and Reflector ALPHARETTA, Ga. (BP) — The pastor’s heart in Kevin Ezell would not let him say no when the Nashville-area Long Hollow Baptist Church asked him to serve as interim pastor. The...
Read MoreWe must stop ignoring mental illness and start graciously offering hope. We must stop ignoring mental illness and start graciously offering hope. By Ed Stetzer Churches, we need a new approach to mental illness. Or, maybe not...
Read MoreBy Chuck Lawless At many conferences and meetings I attend, I am expected to wear a nametag. The business world thinks about nametags, but the church world gives them too little thought. Here are ten reasons EVERYONE in church...
Read MoreThom S. Rainer, president and CEO of LifeWay Christian Resources has just released a free church facility audit. This audit is specially designed to help churches improve the overall guest friendliness on their website and...
Read Moreby Tom Strode WASHINGTON (BP) — The Southern Baptist Convention’s lead religious freedom advocate is part of a widely diverse, informal coalition urging Congress to strengthen protections for the rights of people of...
Read Moreby Dave Miller The Son of Man came eating and drinking, and they say, ‘Look at him! A glutton and a drunkard, a friend of tax collectors and sinners!’ Yet wisdom is justified by her deeds.” Matthew 11:19 It was one of the barbs...
Read MoreA Dayton native returns home to plant a church By K. Faith Morgan DAYTON, Ohio – When Randy Chestnut and his wife of 35 years, Denise, sensed God calling them to establish a church and ministry in Old North Dayton, it was a...
Read Moreby Bob Smietana NASHVILLE (BP) — Americans who have gay or lesbian friends are twice as likely to say gay marriage should be legal as those who have none. And more than half of Americans, meanwhile, say homosexuality is...
Read MoreBy Eric Geiger Christians are a peculiar people. God describes us that way in His Word. We are not of this world as He is not of this world (John 17:16). We are “strangers and temporary residents” here (1 Peter 2:11) because...
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