The Baptist General Association of Virginia is gathering this week for its 201st meeting — while also continuing to blaze a trail with online voting for offsite messengers during its business sessions.
Here’s the Explore the Bible Sunday School lesson commentary for November 17, written by Mark Rathel, pastor of Friendship Baptist Church in DeFuniak Springs, Florida.
Not many people have had even one front-row seat to watch history unfolding before their eyes. Retired Col. Jerry Whiteside, U.S. Army, 87, has had two notable ones.
“Over the years, I’ve worked with a lot of pastors in difficult churches to lead. They’re not impossible — because nothing’s impossible for God (Matt. 19:26) — but they’re still tough to pastor,” writes Chuck Lawless.
Matt Queen, a former interim provost at Southwestern Seminary, has resigned as pastor of Friendly Avenue Baptist in Greensboro, N.C., three weeks after pleading guilty to a charge of making false statements to federal investigators.
High school students and community members recently flooded the gym of Salem High School for a Real Encounter Outreach event in Missouri.
Iowa Baptists are “redeploying” their Disaster Relief, announced Iowa DR Coordinator Gared Shaffer during their annual meeting Nov. 1–2 at First Family Church in Ankeny. Shaffer shared the success of recent training and deployments …
The path James Perkins has taken to become an International Mission Board missionary is not your typical story. He’s been a soldier, during which time he served a one-year deployment in Afghanistan, then has owned a grocery store. But …
Nearly 2,000 students recently crammed into the Paducah-McCracken County Convention & Expo Center around one central message: the hope of Jesus Christ.
Colorado Baptists celebrated a record-breaking 1,046 baptisms in 2023 — nearly doubling the previous year’s total of 550 — at their annual meeting on Oct. 14–15.
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