“If families are drifting from the Lord and diving into sin and putting their faith on cruise control Monday through Saturday, then we are not really a healthy church because that is the church,” said Jonathan Williams.
The Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary campus welcomed 80 high school students June 3-6, for the Texas Baptist College Student Worship Camp.
For more than four decades, almost every patient at Midland Memorial Hospital could count on a visit from “Brother Bob” Porterfield, pastor of West Kentucky Avenue Baptist Church in Midland.
A new report from Pew Research Center finds Americans split on prayer in school, with just over half saying Christian prayers led by teachers are OK. But approval ranges widely from state to state.
“Southwestern Seminary is in a very different place than it was 33 months ago,” said David Dockery, president of Southwestern Seminary. “The board, faculty, staff and students are unanimous in their sense of joyful hopefulness.”
Pulling his message from Ecclesiastes 11: 1–6, Tony Wolfe — executive director-treasurer of the South Carolina Baptist Convention — urged messengers to not retreat from their global mission.
In addition to electing North Carolina pastor Clint Pressley for a second term as Southern Baptist Convention president, messengers to the annual meeting June 10–11 in Dallas elected a slate of other leaders.
Recalling his early years playing football, Clint Pressley recalled how there were some players he was friends with and some he “barely knew their name.”
At the Southern Baptist Pastors Conference on June 9 in Dallas, Juan Sanchez said there are two things pastors need to do when it comes to ungodly people in the church who oppose the truth.
Pastor Caleb Turner hones in on the spiritual foundation that dwells within Timothy, planted by his grandmother and mother. But what does it mean to dwell?
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