God’s calling felt during job as youth counselor
September 23, 2003
Jeremy Sandefur sits on the floor surrounded by 10 pre-teens in a room with posters announcing the name of their group, “Moldy Pizza.” For
Birmingham’s Bruton looks past retirement to new opportunities
September 18, 2003
Retirement doesn’t exactly mean retirement to James “Jim” Bruton, pastor of Liberty Park Baptist Church, Birmingham, and its predecessor Woodlawn Baptist Church, for the past
Alabama Baptist churches challenged to be missions-minded
September 18, 2003
Churches need to move from a “member mentality to a missionary culture,” Reggie McNeal told members of Alabama Baptists’ Strategic Initiatives Task Force Aug. 19.
Southern Baptists still finding ways to minister to New Yorkers
September 18, 2003
The rubble has long been cleared from the scar on Lower Manhattan that will forever be known as Ground Zero, but the process of healing
Christians’ faith inspires Alabama woman
September 18, 2003
A new book, “As the Towers Fell,” is aptly described on its cover as offering “personal insights of Christians rocked by 9/11 — ordinary people
Christian music industry deemed a big business
September 18, 2003
Christian music is big business. The sales numbers show that. But Christian music insiders argue it’s a ministry as well. Although sales figures fell about
Single parents find encouragement, helpful counsel at her workshop
September 15, 2003
Linda Ranson Jacobs knows the pain of divorce. She knows how it feels to be attending Sunday School with her husband one week, and then,
‘Shout to the Lord’ most popular among Baptists
September 11, 2003
PORTLAND, Ore. — “Shout to the Lord” and “Lord, I Lift Your Name on High” are the two most popular songs sung in Baptist churches
