The Baptist Courier

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 »

Robert Amaya, one of the stars of the movie "Courageous," was among the featured speakers at "SBC Avanze Hispano" (SBC Hispanic Advance) June 18, attended by 200 Hispanic pastors and leaders from 20 states and several countries prior to... Continue Reading »

LifeWay Christian Resources will use an amusement park theme for its 2013 Vacation Bible School material. ?Colossal Coaster World: Facing Fear, Trusting God? will be built around the Scripture, ?For God has not given us a spirit of fearfulness,... Continue Reading »

The boy came to the altar during invitation time with a simple salvation tract and told the inquiring pastor, ?I did what this book said ? I asked Jesus into my heart.? The boy had participated in a basketball... Continue Reading »