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Doctor’s Creek to celebrate 175 years

Published on October 11, 2012

Doctor's Creek Baptist Church in Walterboro will observe its 175th anniversary on Oct. 21.... Continue Reading »

Upstate pastors to be nominees for SCBC president

Published on October 11, 2012

Two Upstate pastors ? Ralph Carter and Ty Childers ? will be nominated for president of the South Carolina Baptist Convention when messengers gather for this year's annual meeting at the TD Convention Center in Greenville Nov. 13-14.... Continue Reading »

Intersections: Where Faith Meets Life – by Bob Weathers

Published on October 11, 2012

Not a fan of those spontaneous love offerings for missionaries, traveling evangelists, or the pastor's favorite local ministry? Consider this recently published research, found at sciencemag.org.... Continue Reading »

Pastor compensation slightly ahead of inflation

Published on October 11, 2012

Compensation for full-time Southern Baptist pastors increased at a rate slightly faster than inflation nationally over the past two years, yet many churches continue to struggle in providing pastors with adequate medical insurance.... Continue Reading »

Among Mongolia’s nomads, water wells lead to Living Water

Published on October 9, 2012

The World Hunger Fund, a separate fund, provided the money for eight wells for eastern Mongolia nomads and their goat herds. Each well costs $3,250 and will help around 480 people in the Asian country.... Continue Reading »

Church planter reaches Africans in Chicago

Published on October 9, 2012

"God laid on my heart that there are no Ghanaian African Baptist churches [SBC] in all of Chicago," said Aidoo, a North American Mission Board church planter.... Continue Reading »

NAMB to boost planters’ retirement accounts

Published on October 9, 2012

The North American Mission Board is providing a one-time deposit of $1,200 into the retirement accounts of Southern Baptist church planters who have joined its Send North America Support Network.... Continue Reading »

Panel addresses new challenges to inerrancy

Published on October 9, 2012

In a panel discussion concerned with "Revisiting Inerrancy" at Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, Bruce Ware, a professor at Southern who attended Fuller Seminary during the height of the inerrancy debates in the mid-20th century, explained the conflict of authority.... Continue Reading »

FIRST PERSON: Will Southern Baptists rise to the challenge?

Published on October 9, 2012

Is this how Southern Baptists will be remembered? Will it be said of us that at the hour of greatest need for the Gospel we did not rise to the challenge?... Continue Reading »

FIRST-PERSON: Why choosing a church is not like choosing a sports team

Published on October 9, 2012

Appealing to people"s commonalities, memories and personal affinities tends to turn churches into a homogeneous conglomeration of spectators instead of a diverse community of Gospel-centered servants.... Continue Reading »

Turner Gill, at Liberty, steadied by faith

Published on October 8, 2012

The 50-year-old Gill, who is still a legend on the Nebraskan plains for his exploits as a Cornhusker, is now trying to rewrite history some 1,200 miles east of Lincoln in Lynchburg, Va.... Continue Reading »

Former Sooner picks up where he left off

Published on October 8, 2012

What he did as a Sooner football player he continues to do today -- not on the field, but in the locker room, dorm room, throughout the campus and even on road trips. Having an influence in people"s lives... Continue Reading »