When Mary Gellerstedt first joined the staff of First Baptist Church, Atlanta, World War II was raging. Since then, she’s been a living example of what it means to press forward with steadfastness in Christ. The 98-year-old Gellerstedt started working at the church in 1944, right out of high school, and never left. “I can […]
Evangelist Bailey Smith, who helped sustain the Conservative Resurgence at its outset in the Southern Baptist Convention, died Jan. 14 at his home in Duluth, Ga. He was 79. Smith’s election as SBC president in 1980 was the second victory for conservatives following the landmark election of the late Memphis pastor Adrian Rogers in 1979. […]
I went to the “Hits Deep Tour” featuring TobyMac at the Infinite Energy Arena in Duluth, Ga., earlier this month. I didn’t go alone, but with my extended family — 17 of us (one granddaughter was sick and could not join us). It was not the first time I have been to a contemporary Christian […]
Frank Irvin Gillespie’s last year playing football at Clemson was 1949 — 20 years before Dabo Swinney, coach of the university’s national championship football team, was born. However, Coach Swinney called Gillespie’s son Frank the day after his dad died to offer his condolences — a call evidencing that Frank Irvin Gillespie’s influence at Clemson […]
Chris McDaniel is the worship pastor of Liberty Baptist Church in Dalton, Ga., and the ministry leader for their Celebrate Recovery ministry. He was formerly with the multiplatinum-selling country group Confederate Railroad. He spent 16 years with the group until 2000, when he found himself in the middle of a $70,000-a-year cocaine addiction. McDaniel went […]