
Bible Studies for Life Sunday School Lesson for Jan. 4
Here’s the Bible Studies for Life Sunday School lesson commentary for January 4, written by Bobby McKay, pastor of New Liberty Baptist Church in Morton, Mississippi.

Florida pastor blends faith with athletics
JJ Johnson does a different kind of moonlighting. In addition to his position as pastor of South Tampa Fellowship, he also

Influential discipleship author Henry Blackaby dies at 88
Blackaby’s “Experiencing God: Knowing and Doing the Will of God” was first released in 1990 and has sold more than 7 million copies. It was revised by his son and grandson in 2022.

Cincinnati pastor affirms The Baptist Paper as valuable tool to ‘ignite a heart of missions’
“Most of the time for me, I see churches that are doing something unusual helps us to get ideas,” said Ohio pastor Fran Trascritti. “If somebody’s doing something that might work in their context, it might work in our context.”

‘The pastor’s assistant’: 11 year old preaches at Georgia church
“During my second sermon in May of this year,” 11-year-old Colby Davis said, “I wanted people to have the seeds of salvation planted in their hearts and to think about removing the weeds, which are the sins from their lives.”

‘No-frills’ cowboy church steers lost to Jesus in Tennessee
As pastor of a cowboy church, Byron Ash has a strict rule: No poaching allowed. That’s not in reference to cattle or horses, but to church members.

Three major motions defeated at #SBC25
The three major debates anticipated for the more than 10,000 messengers to the 2025 SBC Annual Meeting in Dallas — plus a few unexpected ones — all failed to garner enough votes for passage.

Retired pastor shares verse-by-verse study of Revelation
Don English spent more than four and a half decades as a pastor on mission, taking more than 50 volunteer