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Capitol View: Don’t Be Fooled by the Package

Bath salts and herbal potpourri may appear as innocent items found on any grocery list. Ironically, these are the falsely marketed terms given to two very dangerous, currently, legal drugs sold in communities across our state.... Continue Reading »

Sunday School Lessons: October 23, 2011, Bible Studies for Life

As Halloween approaches, it seems appropriate to study the Gerasene demoniac. In Mark 4, Jesus explained to his disciples that seed sowers (gospel sharers) recklessly sow the gospel in many soils. Then he took his disciples across a stormy... Continue Reading »

Missionaries’ legacy reaches beyond the years

Day after day, missionary Clarence Griffin shared the gospel with his Indonesian driver, without success. Read what would happen decades later in a showcase of missionary legacy... Continue Reading »

Beggars in Bangladesh find food, Christ

Light of Hope continues in operation today with help from the Southern Baptist World Hunger Fund.... Continue Reading »

NGU hosts annual Global Missions Conference

Forty missionaries from across the United States and almost every region of the world were present on the campus of North Greenville University Sept. 12-14 for the university's 10th annual Global Missions Conference.... Continue Reading »

Sunday School Lessons: October 16, 2011, Explore the Bible

On many college campuses, harmful ideologies have crept into the classroom and produced detrimental impacts on our culture. Moral relativism (right and wrong determined relative to individual circumstances, not a universal moral standard) and religious pluralism (world composed of... Continue Reading »

Baptist Foundation celebrates partnerships, bestows awards

The Baptist Foundation held its annual ?Partners in Ministry? event Aug. 30 at White Oak Conference Center.... Continue Reading »

House panel votes to defund UNFPA

A U.S. House of Representatives committee has forwarded a bill to the full chamber that would bar federal funds from going to a United Nations agency that supports China"s coercive population control program.... Continue Reading »

Warren joins foundation as field coordinator

Ralph M. Warren has joined the Baptist Foundation of South Carolina as a part-time field development coordinator. He will be concentrating on associations and churches located primarily near the coast.... Continue Reading »

Sunday School Lessons: October 23, 2011, Explore the Bible

In a recent meeting of Southern Baptist collegiate ministry leaders, one of the participants continually asked the question, ?What's the goal?? After a while, he added, ?If we don't know where we want to go, then it will be... Continue Reading »

SCBC resolution submissions due Oct. 15

Resolutions to be considered at the 191st annual meeting of the South Carolina Baptist Convention must be submitted by Oct. 15.... Continue Reading »

South Carolina Showcase for October 13, 2011

Greg Koukl, CEO of Stand to Reason, an online Christian education resource, spoke to students at Charleston Southern University Sept. 28. As part of the university’s vision to integrate faith in the classroom and community, Koukl led three additional... Continue Reading »