For decades, Chicago Tribune columnist Joan Beck memorialized each year with a poetic column of thanksgiving. The verses below are our attempt to follow her example and remember the blessings of 2023.
“Thanksgiving is more about WHOM we give thanks to than WHAT we give thanks for,” shares Adam Dooley, author and pastor of Englewood Baptist Church in Jackson, Tennessee.
It’s Thanksgiving, which unfortunately sometimes gets lost in between Halloween and Christmas. Thanksgiving yard decorations don’t get the love the other two holidays do.
We have so much for which to be grateful today. I fear, though, that we too often limit our expressions of thanksgiving to only this day.
A church in our community hit a rough stretch several years ago. The staff, already ministering to members after a series of tragedies in the church family, suddenly faced the pastor losing his wife and infant during childbirth …
Carved on my parents’ headstone in a rural church cemetery in southeast Missouri are the profound words of Philippians 1:21, “To live is Christ. To die is gain.”
Dr. Adrian Rogers’ love for Jesus Christ was palpable. You heard it in every sermon and felt it in every conversation.
First, let’s clarify what artificial intelligence is and isn’t. Most people think of science fiction-level AI when discussing this topic. However, we are not close to a scenario like Skynet taking over the world.
In the fall of 2021, Neill’s Creek Baptist Church in Angier afforded me a 12-week sabbatical. This provision was included in the covenant when I was called as senior pastor in February of 2011.
Lloyd Elder died Nov. 3 after a lengthy illness. Southern Baptists lost a statesman — and bivocational and small church pastors across the denomination lost a friend.
