The Baptist Courier

Tony Lineberger Tony Lineberger has been called as pastor of Sharon Baptist Church, York Association. Lineberger, a native of York, is a graduate of Gardner-Webb University and Mid-America Baptist Seminary. A chalk artist sermon illustrator, he has been pastor... Continue Reading »

Two sisters from Chester County recently returned from 11 days of volunteer service with the Red Cross in Montgomery, Ala. Jeanette Thomas of First Baptist Church, Lowrys, and Diane Sisk of Westside Baptist Church, Chester, both felt the need... Continue Reading »

We live in a culture of controversies. Everything today is controversial or has the potential to become controversial. Political correctness has moved like a virus through the culture, infecting normally reasonable people with a madness that is, well, maddening.... Continue Reading »

The people of Rocky Mount, N.C., have a problem. They cannot decide what one of history's most famous leaders looks like.... Continue Reading »

?I pray every night for our football team. I pray every night for my family. That's because I?m not in control of the football team or my family. Somebody else is.? That's the sentiment of Byrnes High School head... Continue Reading »

Beginning Dec. 26, Brett Miller's kart will be on display for the following year at Daytona USA in Daytona, Fla., Miller, a North Greenville University junior, is being honored with the display after winning four of the World Karting... Continue Reading »

When Charleston Southern kicker Nick Ellis saw the scoreboard flashing ?Big South Champions? and the ?21? lit up in the yard-line indicator, he thought of his friend and roommate, Bucs receiver Eddie Gadson.... Continue Reading »

This letter is in response to the letter by David Brien in the Dec. 1 edition of the Courier. I specifically wish to address the comment that ?if such practice and decision-making in this one state are by any... Continue Reading »

Boots Holder refers to his recent months in North Peru as 'the best and worst of times.? As a strategy-coordinator missionary, Holder and his REAP North Peru team use hundreds of volunteers from the United States to share the... Continue Reading »

About 50 missions volunteers scatter around a hotel lobby high in the mountains of Canta, Peru. As they prepare to jump in trucks and ride into villages, Boots Holder is where he likes to be ? out of the... Continue Reading »

South Carolina Baptists put a lot of faith in the work of their committees. Though we might not fully understand all their decisions, we usually go along with them because we feel they have our best interests at heart.... Continue Reading »

The government of India has granted permission to Gideons International to come to India to distribute Bibles. I ask The Baptist Courier readers to continue to pray for this area of our world. It has a large population with... Continue Reading »