The Baptist Courier

While my life is one driven by vision and a constant focus on the future, and what could be, when I pause to reflect on the past I realize life's journey is marked by a sequence of transitions.... Continue Reading »

Garden City Baptist Church is sending a message to everyone who passes by that “God is bigger than any fire that can enter life.” The church burned recently, but this sign on Highway 17 reminds motorists that the church... Continue Reading »

Donate Life South Carolina is gearing up for the observance of National Donor Sabbath during the month of November. The annual observance is designed to raise awareness, especially through the religious communities, of the urgent need for organ and... Continue Reading »

Young people in America are leaving the church when they graduate from high school. Anyone involved in a church recently can probably quote the exact statistic. The only problem is, according to Ed Stetzer, president and missiologist at LifeWay... Continue Reading »

More than 90 percent of people have reportedly been involved in sports in some way over the last year, either through participating in sports or watching or reading about sports. Kids are starting sports programs as early as age... Continue Reading »

Martin Ray Willis, 78, of Laurens, a long-serving pastor, died Sept. 5, 2009, at his home.... Continue Reading »

North Greenville University is in the business of training young men and women to go into the world and share the good news of the gospel. In the last few months, the university has had the opportunity to help... Continue Reading »

At a service of celebration Sept. 3, Brenda Jeffcoat was remembered as a professional, cheerful servant who prioritized her life around faith, family, church, and the South Carolina Baptist Convention. Jeffcoat, 50, died Aug. 30 following a five-year battle... Continue Reading »

Dan Graves, pastor of Southside Baptist Church, Columbia, refrains from using words like ?programs? and ?projects,? preferring to label this growing, smaller-membership church's activity as ?experiments.? To fully understand this intentional approach to ministry, it's important to understand Southside... Continue Reading »

Did you know that our state allows the Bible to be taught as an elective class in high schools? The legislation was enacted two years ago. It gives local school districts the option to offer a course concerning the... Continue Reading »

Hundreds of South Carolina worship leaders came ?Face to Face with God at the Summit? Aug. 21-22 as the South Carolina Baptist Convention's Worship Summit sold out White Oak Conference Center for the second straight year.... Continue Reading »

  NIV to be revised; TNIV to be discontinued A revision of the New International Version of the Bible will be available in 2011, according to a joint announcement Sept. 1 by Zondervan, Biblica and the Committee on Bible... Continue Reading »