“A lot of times, we want to hand pick what ministry looks like. In the cowboy world, you’ve got to go and meet them where they’re at,” Jeff Deckard, pastor of Damascus Road Cowboy Church, Damascus, Arkansas.
The view from the audience is not always accurate and certainly never complete. And the same can be said of viewing the life of Elisabeth Elliot.
Gunmen entering a town in Taraba State, Nigeria at about 2 a.m. on Sunday (Sept. 10) killed two Christians, wounded several others and kidnapped six people.
Here’s the Bible Studies for Life Sunday School lesson commentary for Sept. 17, written by Bobby McKay, pastor of New Liberty Baptist Church in Morton, Mississippi.
Southern Baptists are responding through local partners who mobilized within hours of the earthquake to provide help and supplies to families in the affected region.
Here’s the Explore the Bible Sunday School lesson commentary for Sept. 17, written by Mark Rathel, professor at the Baptist College of Florida in Graceville, Florida.
I remember an 8-year boy standing next to me crying and saying repeatedly, “Why did they have to kill my daddy?”
“It was buzzing, it was loud, and the students were responding really well to the worship and the message,” Dunn said.
At a gathering of pastors, the discussion turned to the leadership pipeline crisis. Specifically mentioned was the crisis of finding church staff but also the lack of church planters for new congregations or multisite campuses.
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