As North Texas prepares to host nearly 4 million fans next month for the World Cup, churches in the Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex are gearing up to reach them for Christ
First Baptist Church of Ponchatoula, La., pastor David Cranford considers South Korea "at the crossroads of Lostness Boulevard and Receptivity Avenue," and leads his church in this small town to "do missions work where those streets intersect." The congregation extends its reach by supporting the Southern Baptist Cooperative Program.
Like farmers, pastors and church leaders work their fields toward an anticipated harvest, Randy Davis writes. Never pause midseason, the Tennessee Baptist Convention's executive director exhorts. "Plow in hope while looking forward to that day when our heavenly Father reveals the fruit of the harvest."
After a week of whispers that he had been fired, NewSpring Church, a popular megachurch in South Carolina with a weekly attendance of 30,000, confirmed Sunday that Perry Noble, the church s founding ...
A bill that would have safeguarded the religious liberty of individuals and organizations who refuse to participate in same-sex weddings or gender identity transitions was stuck down by a U.S. district judge Thursday night (June 30), hours before the bill was slated to take effect July 1.
David Jeremiah recounts how Christians have used societal advances throughout the ages to advance the Gospel, beginning with the apostle Paul. Amid such innovations as the printing press and the Internet, the California pastor notes: "Sin is still awful. Death is still coming. Judgment is still waiting. The grace of God is still available."
Southern Baptists' decline in baptisms prompts evangelism professor Ernest Easley to suggest: "It's time we get back to inviting people to come to Jesus." Describing invitations to faith as biblical, Easley notes, "The God who initiates a relationship with us and then invites us into that relationship has commissioned us to become the inviters, as we invite the lost to Christ."
A North American Mission Board trustee recommendation and a messenger motion at the Southern Baptist Convention annual meeting were among the actions Southern Baptists took in St. Louis last week related to NAMB's dealings with the Baptist Convention of Maryland/Delaware.
Daily headlines are stirring Nate Adams to deeper prayer over "a declining morality in our culture that seems more and more widely accepted." But it's not just a matter of "God, help them," the Illinois Baptist leader writes. It's also "Help us. Help me."
Pastor Steve Gaines is the new president of the Southern Baptist Convention after opponent J D Greear decided to withdraw his candidacy
About 500 Southern Baptists gathered June 12 for the opening sessions of WMU's 2016 Missions Celebration and Annual Meeting in St. Louis, Mo. With a theme of "By All Means," the two Sunday programs recognized current and retired missionaries, as well as International Mission Board staff, and celebrated Wanda Lee's service as she retires as executive director of WMU.
