
First person: Handling the ‘intrusive burden of worry’
As another week of strikes on Iran approaches, Americans are bracing for soaring gas prices and sustained inflation. With an April 15 deadline looming, many taxpayers dread their final bill from the IRS. Here in West Tennessee, tornado season is now underway. So, how do we handle the worries of life?

11 questions for Christians to ask themselves about their witness
We are eight months from the U.S. presidential election and some Christians are already torching their gospel witness. Here are 11 questions Christians should ask themselves.

WMU Foundation scholarship helps 2 Texas women take next step in life
Brianna Watts was stuck in a cycle. After growing up in foster homes, and then being adopted by an aunt

Students find shelter amid severe storm ‘chaos’
“All you could see was smiling faces, people praising God, and good times in a midst of chaos.”

Heart of the Child event equips ministry leaders with practical training
More than 900 preschool, children’s, family ministry, pre-teen, church weekday and disability ministry leaders from the southeast region of the United States gathered on the campus of Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary April 5-6 …

Wyoming church planting family perseveres through ‘trials of a lifetime’
If you submitted a movie script with all the elements of the past six years in Marybeth Slabbert’s life to

First person: Churches must help prevent child abuse
As we recognize April as National Child Abuse Prevention Month, may we as followers of Jesus choose to shine brightly in a world that desperately needs His light. (Matthew 5:16)

Connect Ministries helping churches across southeast with camps, coaching
“We were just laymen helping to start a church in Franklin, Tennessee, when Gabe Norris and I realized just how hard it is for the Church in America to meet new people,” said Ken “KT” Thomas, president and co-founder of Connect Ministries.