In my early days as a Baptist pastor few people, if any, every challenged the assumption that a cooperating Baptist church supported the Cooperative Program
Do you know people who became so filled with their own importance that they used their position and authority for their own benefit rather than
Today I am grieving. One of my best friends for nearly 40 years is dying. In fact, she may be dead by the time you
Do you know how hard it is to get members to attend a local church business meeting? In most congregations only a handful of folk
When the Pew Research Center recently released a study concluding that a growing number of American Jews had only a “nominal” commitment to their faith,
Do you know the value of a word “rightly spoken”? According to Proverbs 25:11, it is worth more than “apples of gold in settings of
Hunger is no respecter of persons. It plagues rural families in Alabama’s Black Belt. It stalks children living in the inner cities of the state’s
Oftentimes people think of the Cooperative Program (CP) as the primary way Southern Baptists work together to fund missions efforts. It certainly is that, but
