The man who gave Christian recording artist Chris Tomlin his first opportunity to lead worship at a concert has been called to pastor his first church at age 70. In fact, it’s the church both he and Tomlin grew up in, years apart.
Howard Payne University won a successful appeal from the Department of Education’s review committee, clarifying ownership and scoring a victory for the Baptist General Convention of Texas and related or affiliated educational institutions.
The Baptist General Convention of Texas Executive Board voted to take initial steps to create a Texas Baptist insurance program to enable churches to secure affordable property and casualty, liability and similar insurance coverage.
Churches need to consider what it might look like for disabled people “to be embedded at that DNA, normalized cultural level of church life,” said Jason Le Shana during a recent faith and disability workshop.
After a 14-month battle with cancer, Earl R. Martin — who taught missiology and world religions at Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary — died Aug. 23
This year, MedAdvance was held in Houston, Texas, Sept. 12-14, at Houston’s First Baptist Church. More than 250 people attended the conference and connected with IMB personnel, including 42 missionaries.
“I don’t think we always realize that alleviating hunger is an essential element of our faith expression as Christians,” said said Jeremy Everett, founding executive director of the Baylor Collaborative on Hunger and Poverty.
West Texas A&M Baptist Student Ministry in Canyon celebrated 104 years of reaching, equipping and mobilizing students for the sake of the gospel on West Texas A&M University’s campus.
In 2020, Emmanuel Baptist Church in Waco, Texas, temporarily closed its doors for the safety of its congregation, but had considered the possibility of permanent closure because of its dwindling numbers and lack of a lead pastor.
A squirrel was loose in the building at First Baptist Church Timpson, Texas, so the pastor sent out a notice that he needed a trap to catch it. By the end of the day, a squirrel trap was set and a man he had been praying for was …
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