Leaders often lecture on “embracing change” or being “change agents” in an organization. But the reality is that most people — employees and leaders alike — hate change. We value stability and predictability.
I recently was asked to preach at one of our area Baptist churches. I worked hard on the sermon and was convinced it was going to be great.
In July 1938, Lola Owens walked down the aisle of Harmony Baptist Church in Andalusia, gave her life to Christ and became a church member. And 87 years later, she’s still there. Church members say she’s a “role model” in how to love others.
An unusual text disrupted Richard Bradley’s workout one morning at the family life center at Gardendale First Baptist Church — someone had a 16-foot cross from the former St. Vincent’s Hospital and didn’t know what to do with it.
I guess, in the moment, it is human nature to want somebody else to blame. We don’t want to blame ourselves. We can’t blame other people — they’d get mad at us.
Since a calling that came at age seventeen, the joy of my life has been training for and working in the local church in order to build up the body of Christ.
Check out these recent headlines, reported by The Baptist Paper.
Many might think chaplains only work in hospitals or the military. But what is mostly unknown is a rapidly growing field — marketplace chaplains.
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