The Baptist Courier

Messengers to the annual meeting of the Southern Baptist Convention were reminded of the importance of theological education through reports from the convention"s six seminaries during the June 19-20 annual meeting in New Orleans.... Continue Reading »

The crowd of boys is rowdy, respectful, pumped up and sweaty. Nine hundred of them are packed into the Henderson Auditorium at Anderson University on Thursday afternoon of the week-long convocation for the best young leaders in South Carolina.... Continue Reading »

On my bookshelf sits a copy of the B&H Publishing Group classic trade book from 1991, ?Help, There's a Computer in My Church!? Surprisingly, I have yet to be able to convince our leadership team to convert it into... Continue Reading »

Olympic hurdler Lolo Jones created a buzz when she told the world on an HBO talk show that at 29 she's a Christian, and a virgin, and she is delaying sex until marriage.... Continue Reading »

While some have lugubrious prognostications as to the current discussion bringing about the demise of our Baptist Zion, I am actually encouraged by it and believe that most of the dialogue is helping to strengthen our theological understanding and... Continue Reading »

Padgett’s Creek Baptist Church, Union, held Vacation Bible School June 4-8, reporting an average attendance of 90 students and adults.   Cayce First Baptist Church held baptism on June 10 for five new members: Kathy Stewart, Sydney Franklin, Bear... Continue Reading »

The most detailed descriptions of the trials that will take place in God"s courtroom are set forth in Daniel 7:9-11 and Revelation 20:11-12.... Continue Reading »

While 2012 has been a relatively quiet year so far for Southern Baptist Disaster Relief on a national scale ? compared to tornado-dominated 2011 ? SBDR leaders at the North American Mission Board have used the time to expand... Continue Reading »

Year-to-date contributions to Southern Baptist national and international missions and ministries received by the SBC Executive Committee are $4,909,539, or 3.96 percent, above the year-to-date budgeted goal, and are 1.08 percent behind contributions received during the same time frame... Continue Reading »

It"s what we were created to do -- work and produce.... Continue Reading »

Joe Wren JOE WREN recently retired from the pastorate of Summerville Baptist Church, Summerville, where he served for more than 21 years. A native of South Carolina, he has been in the ministry for 46 years, having previously served... Continue Reading »

Behind the wheel of his red Ford pickup truck, Danny Ray drives a nine-county circuit ? always trailing terminal illness, inevitable death and heartache. Ray's ministry as a hospice chaplain is not one for the faint of heart or... Continue Reading »