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...
Read MoreBy 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...
Read MoreBy 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...
Read Moreby 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...
Read MoreBy 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...
Read Moreby 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...
Read Moreby Mike Bergman On Monday Oct 6, I went to a Transformational Church conference in Ozark, MO, with a couple of fellow pastors. After a day of listening to Ed Stetzer and Micah Fries discuss what could properly be called issues...
Read Moreby Frank S. Page EDITOR’S NOTE: This column is part of the call to prayer issued by Frank S. Page, president of the Southern Baptist Convention Executive Committee, to pray for revival and spiritual awakening for our...
Read MoreBy Kevin Ezell For many in North America, hunger is someone else’s problem. It’s the emaciated children halfway around the world. It’s people who live on the other side of the tracks. And, occasionally, it’s the person holding...
Read MoreBy Tobin Perry ALPHARETTA, Ga. – Southern Baptist pastors struggling through personal or professional crisis now have a confidential place to turn, thanks to a new partnership between the North American Mission Board (NAMB)...
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