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YAZOO CITY, Miss. – Owen Cooper wasn’t a Baptist when he left for college, intending to be a Presbyterian as was his mother. But he happened to “get hold of a Baptist Bible,” leading the young Mississippian into a faith journey that helped shape Southern Baptists during the latter half…
I recently led a group of Kentucky Baptists to the International Mission Board training center and offices in Richmond, Virginia, to gain a better understanding of the impact of our Cooperative Program.
GARDEN CITY, Kansas (BP) – The nations are coming here, and First Southern Baptist Church is ready for them.
NASHVILLE (BP) – Total fiscal year giving for the 2023-2024 was just over $191 million falling a little more than 2 percent below the goal of $195,250,000.
Ahead of his speech Saturday at the Fourth Lausanne Congress on World Evangelisation, Rick Warren, founder of Saddleback Church in California, warned believers must re-evangelise nominal Christians to fulfill the Great Commission, adding that some Christians have traded "spiritual power for political influence."
A panel of appeals court judges in Michigan ruled Monday that the Woodside Bible Church in Troy, Mich., must pay taxes on a retreat property owned by the church. The judge’s ruling upheld a previous...
NASHVILLE (BP) — There is a tension in ministry: get results now, but not at the expense of long-term effectiveness. The long game is important. Lessons from Matthew 13 are in play, because a seed doesn’t sprout immediately and yet is highly dependent on its current environment.
ALPHARETTA, Georgia (BP) – During a time when change seems to be constant for Southern Baptists, associational mission strategists (AMS) from across the United States met to learn more about how to lead through it.
PLYMOUTH, Mich. (BP) – The search team tasked with finding the next executive director-treasure of the Baptist State Convention of Michigan (BSCM) has announced it has selected Ed Emmerling to fill the role being vacated by Tim Patterson. Patterson, who came on board in 2015, announced his retirement late last…
More than two years after he was removed as lead pastor of Fellowship Baptist Church in Sidney, Montana, due to allegations of prescription drug abuse, domestic violence and embezzling money, once
