
‘We stand by our position’: Illinois Baptists plan appeal to loss in religious freedom case
A circuit judge in Springfield has ruled against the Illinois Baptist State Association in a suit to protect IBSA from requirements to provide employees with insurance benefits that cover abortion.

Older urban Jacksonville church still doing gospel work
It was the first baptism in a decade to take place at the 74-year-old East Eleventh Street Baptist Church in Jacksonville–a young

Bible Studies for Life Sunday School Lesson for Sept. 29
Here’s the Bible Studies for Life Sunday School lesson commentary for September 29, written by Bobby McKay, pastor of New Liberty Baptist Church in Morton, Mississippi.

South TX Hispanic church plant works to raise faith from ruins in community
Like many towns, Hebbronville has its challenges. This small South Texas city with roughly 5,000 residents wrestles with crime, drugs

President of Florida WMU reflects on life lessons amid upheaval
Irma Moss vividly remembers five or six communist soldiers invading her family’s home in Cuba and whisking her father off

Explore the Bible Sunday School Lesson for Oct. 13
Here’s the Explore the Bible Sunday School lesson commentary for October 13, written by Mark Rathel, pastor of Friendship Baptist Church in DeFuniak Springs, Florida.

Near-death experience points IT specialist to the Lord
Vincent Chen stopped by a nearby clinic for a COVID-19 test earlier this year. The test came back negative. But

China, North Korea partner to persecute Christians, experts say
China has subjected hundreds of North Koreans to atrocities since last year by forcibly returning them to a country whose leaders hold that religion, especially Christianity, is the greatest threat to its power, experts say …