Brian was 25 minutes late for the next deacons meeting. He had a pre-marriage counseling session before the meeting and needed to complete a crucial part of the conversation.
Brandon Porter, Executive Committee vice president for convention communications, was welcomed as the next associational mission strategist (AMS) for the South Central Baptist Association in Bowling Green, Kentucky, on Aug. 30.
“He met Jesus, and his life shows real growth and changing. He wanted to be baptized — and was not going to let anything stand in the way,” the pastor said.
I just read the article, “First person: Blessings from family vacations” in the July 30 issue of The Baptist Paper. I thought about our family experience.
Here’s the Bible Studies for Life Sunday School lesson commentary for Sept. 6, written by Bobby McKay, pastor of New Liberty Baptist Church in Morton, Mississippi.
Here’s the Explore the Bible Sunday School lesson commentary for Sept. 6, written by Don Fugate, senior pastor of Foxworthy Baptist Church in San Jose, California.
Labor Day is Sept. 7. The Baptist Paper asked several leaders in various roles at SBC entities to share challenges, lessons learned during leadership transitions and reflections on why they keep returning each day for more.
Brian was disappointed, but not surprised. “It was not totally unexpected,” he told Trip. “When I was pastor of another congregation where we talked about launching a new congregation, we got the same first response.”
In 2009, John Cooper and his band, Skillet, unleashed the song “Monster.” Seventeen years later, that same track became the first by a Christian rock artist to crack Spotify’s Billions Club, surpassing 1 billion streams on the platform.
Gang members massacred at least 47 people and injured about 22 others after gunning down people inside a church in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. Dozens more were kidnapped, many of them children, the United Nations and Amnesty International reported. The incident is thought to be one of the largest mass abductions in the nation in recent years.
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