The average Southern Baptist church calls the South home, but the only region of the country where those congregations are growing is the Northeast.
“You can’t start with your idea and then find a list of different Scriptures to support it. You always start with Scripture.”
“I wanted to see how God could use me in a third-world country,” Johari shared. “I wanted to get out of my comfort zone and use my language skills to share the gospel.”
During the week, in addition to the professions of faith, there were 109 decisions to recommit lives to focus on Christ, other decisions made, and prayers lifted to the Lord.
Over forty million people have left the church in the past twenty-five years in the United States—not merely the people who have walked away from Christian faith, but many Christians who have “dechurched.”
First-person articles, comments, letters to the editor, blog excerpts, social media posts and more.
Here’s the Bible Studies for Life Sunday School lesson commentary for March 16, written by Bobby McKay, pastor of New Liberty Baptist Church in Morton, Mississippi.
The longest serving Baptist editor of the 19th century, S.H. Ford, had an amazing life. Ford’s Christian Repository had a strong influence on American Baptists.
Here’s the Explore the Bible Sunday School lesson commentary for March 16, written by Mark Rathel, pastor of Friendship Baptist Church in DeFuniak Springs, Florida.
What if we all took advantage of this current change of seasons to freshen up the areas and spaces we inhabit?
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