First person: 10 characteristics of effective leaders
July 3, 2025
Based on more than 25 years of working with church leaders, here are some characteristics of the most effective leaders I’ve known.
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First person: Getting serious about sharing the gospel
July 2, 2025
Do people who know nothing of Jesus and salvation spend an eternity in hell?
Student worship camp helps students hone gifts, leadership skills
July 1, 2025
The Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary campus welcomed 80 high school students June 3-6, for the Texas Baptist College Student Worship Camp.
Searching for Truth in true crime: How one former detective points troubled world to Christ
June 30, 2025
Are there things Christians can learn in a small-group Bible study from a decades-old murder? Former Los Angeles cold-case detective J. Warner Wallace — now an author, speaker and apologetics expert — believes so.
‘Brother Bob’ ministering to hospital patients through four decades
June 28, 2025
For more than four decades, almost every patient at Midland Memorial Hospital could count on a visit from “Brother Bob” Porterfield, pastor of West Kentucky Avenue Baptist Church in Midland.
‘Is anything too hard for the Lord?’: Georgia BCM celebrates 101 salvations
June 27, 2025
What began as a bold prayer turned into a movement of God that forever changed lives at Valdosta State University.
Supreme Court: Parents can opt kids out of school lessons featuring LGBTQ-themed books
June 27, 2025
The U.S. Supreme Court ruled 6–3 on Friday (June 27) that parents may opt their children out of public school lessons featuring LGBTQ-themed books if
Opinion: A Christian look at ‘just war’
June 27, 2025
War is one of those topics that doesn’t come with a neat and tidy answer. It raises big, emotional questions for people of faith: Should Christians ever support war? Can violence ever be justified?
Study: What are pastors saying about church discipline?
June 26, 2025
Most pastors say their churches have policies in place to address significant misbehavior by church members, but few have actually used those policies recently.
‘You’re bringing the church to us’: Lord of Glory Baptist ministers through free clothes shop
June 25, 2025
A couple of years ago, Wilson Ramsey got a trailer to move his son’s furniture from Mississippi to Illinois. And when he got back home, he was trying to figure out what to do with it.
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