The Baptist Courier

We are busy putting the finishing touches on this year's SCBC Pastor's Conference, and I couldn't be more excited. The Lord has really worked in recent weeks to allow us to catch up from a glitch in our publicity... Continue Reading »

?From My Life's Journey ? with Heaven as My Destination!? is the title of a newly published collection of newspaper columns written by Lloyd Batson, retired pastor of Pickens First Baptist Church.... Continue Reading »

A surge in communications technology in the past decade has expanded religious dialogue, but the discussions have led to little change in people's lives, The Barna Group found in a recent survey.... Continue Reading »

South Carolina Baptist Ministries for the Aging (SCBMA) is a place of ministry, missions, and Great Commission work. While the ministry's primary function is providing quality senior services at Bethea and Martha Franks Baptist retirement communities, the core of... Continue Reading »

Thank you for printing the information about my nephew, Dan McCullough ('simple, ordinary man leaves Christian legacy for community,? Sept. 30). It summed up his ministry for Christ so well. It also reminds us that life here on earth... Continue Reading »

I have been reading the Courier the last couple of months about people's opinions on who should be in control of the church. I am not a pastor, but I am a ?preacher kid? and was at one time... Continue Reading »

As we near the time of our South Carolina Baptist Convention, let us all remember where God has brought us from. Let us remember when North Greenville University was about to close her doors for lack of students. Remember... Continue Reading »

I did not realize The Baptist Courier was in the business of satire comedy. I did not appreciate the humor of the [Joe McKeever] cartoon in the Sept. 30 edition.... Continue Reading »

Recommendations of the South Carolina Baptist Convention Nominations Committee must be approved by vote at the 2010 meeting of the South Carolina Baptist Convention. If approved, terms begin Jan. 1, 2011. Rodney Hord, pastor at Juniper Bay Baptist Church,... Continue Reading »

North Greenville University celebrated 118 years of existence on Sept. 15 with a Founders Day chapel service. Ken Hemphill, national strategist for the Southern Baptist Convention's Empowering Kingdom Growth and former president of Southwestern Seminary, was the keynote speaker.... Continue Reading »

Mike Huckabee, former governor of Arkansas and presidential candidate, was guest speaker for a fifth anniversary and fundraising celebration for the Taylors Free Medical Clinic Sept. 28 at Timmons Arena at Furman University.... Continue Reading »

Fourteen-year-old Ariana Iacono is at the center of a controversy reverberating throughout eastern North Carolina. A student at Clayton High School, not far from Raleigh, she has been suspended for 10 days. Her disobedience? She arrived at school with... Continue Reading »