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.
A significant number of Christians don’t have an accurate context of Israel’s history and, as a result, don’t have a bigger picture of what’s happening.
As I close in on a big milestone birthday, I figured I’d celebrate by doing what I’m sure most people do — run my first 50K ultramarathon …
Many medical schools require their graduates to adhere to the Hippocratic Oath, which includes this line …
In recent decades the focus in the church has shifted away from intentional efforts to invite believers to consider vocational ministry as a calling. As a result, there’s a leadership famine in our local churches.
In his book “Upside Down Leadership: Rethinking Influence and Success,” pastor and author Taylor Field writes about “the futility of trying to know it all.”
