Don Kirkland

As Christians, we have concluded what we call ?Holy Week.? It ended as it always does with the celebration of Easter. Last week, more than at any other time of the year, the church of the living Lord turned... Continue Reading »

Before informing our board of trustees on March 2 of my decision to retire as editor of The Baptist Courier at the end of the year, I talked about it over lunch recently with board chairman Randy Harling.

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The 2012 edition of the South Carolina Baptist Conference on Evangelism opened to an overflow audience last Wednesday evening at Hoffmeyer Road Baptist Church in Florence, which hosted the event for the second straight year. The theme of the... Continue Reading »

At last week's meeting of the Southern Baptist Convention's Executive Committee in Nashville, two officials of the South Carolina Baptist Convention ? executive director-treasurer Jim Austin and convention president Brad Atkins ? arrived in Music City with a request.... Continue Reading »

An 11-point report of the Great Commission Resurgence task force gained enthusiastic approval in a sea of hands raised by messengers voting at a special session of the South Carolina Baptist Convention last November. For many ? it was... Continue Reading »

Clyde and Jayne Porter, members of Washington Baptist Church, Pelzer, both agree it is ?fun to do? and ?a blessing? as they are already at work on the next Springmaid Senior Beach Retreat set for Sept. 10-14.... Continue Reading »

After years of living apart in foster homes, four young brothers and sisters have been reunited as the adopted children of an Aiken County minister and his wife who 'simply tried to be obedient where God already was working.?... Continue Reading »

I have needed corrective lenses since I started high school. I am glad now that I can see things more clearly. It would be good if our spiritual vision could be improved by an annual visit to an optometrist... Continue Reading »

In Nazi Germany, theologian Dietrich Bonhoeffer taught in an underground seminary. He wrote a book of that experience entitled ?Life Together.? The book detailed the necessity of the church functioning as a living and vibrant organism that he called... Continue Reading »

Jim Austin, executive director-treasurer of the South Carolina Baptist Convention, will preach the anniversary message when Roebuck Baptist Church near Spartanburg celebrates 100 years of ministry on Jan. 29.... Continue Reading »

Happy New Year to the members of Laurel Baptist Church in Greenville. I know that your official status in denominational-speak is ?declining,? but you have decided to ?rebuild the walls? of your church according to your new theme for... Continue Reading »

Like too many other congregations affiliated with the South Carolina Baptist Convention, Greenville's Laurel Baptist Church is suffering decline. Today, only a handful of the faithful gather on Sundays in a sanctuary where several hundred regularly worshipped in better... Continue Reading »