The board of trustees for the Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission has unanimously voted to elect Kevin Smith as the new chairperson during its meeting in Nashville, Tennessee.
The annual Sing! Global conference, held Sept. 4-6, drew some 8,500 Christian worship music leaders and other church musicians, pastors, vendors and hymn composers from as many as 35 countries.
Through telemedicine strategies employed by the International Mission Board, missionaries around the globe are able to provide a reinvented mobile medical clinic.
Mike Young, senior pastor at Zion Baptist Church, Brownsville, knows that if Tennessee Baptists are truly going to make an impact in Blue Oval City, it is going to require cooperation from churches all over the state.
Given the secrecy and shame surrounding pornography usage, researchers offer widely divergent statistics about its prevalence in the church. But few question the reality of the problem — both in the pews and in the pulpits.
The SBC Executive Committee announced Wednesday (Sept. 13) that it has cut five positions and two contractor positions, trimming the already lean staff down to 21 full-time positions.
A former pastor in Southern Illinois pled guilty to one charge of child grooming and a second charge was dropped Sept. 11 in Jefferson County Circuit Court.
Religious freedom and human rights conditions in Iran — which already were bleak — have “sharply deteriorated,” the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom reported in an update released Sept. 11.
Reading the Word: A habit or a discipline? Ask Billie Lang of West Point, Mississippi, that question, and she will quickly tell you, “It is a discipline. But if it’s a habit, it’s a good habit.”
“People aren’t always going to react well to the gospel,” said Payton Beucher, a student at Northwest Missouri State University. “But you don’t give people the excuse to throw it back in your face.”
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