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Platt/’Secret Church’ topic: ‘Cross & Suffering’

"The Cross and Suffering" will be pastor David Platt"s topic for a Good Friday "Secret Church" simulcast on April 6.... Continue Reading »

BIBLE STUDY: Sunday, Jan. 22, 2012

This week"s Bible study is adapted from the YOU! curriculum.

Bible Passages: 2 Timothy 3:1-5,10-12,16-17... Continue Reading »

FIRST-PERSON: The Gospel in an abortion culture

In your congregation this Sunday, and in the neighborhoods around you right now, there are women vulnerable to abortionist propaganda, not because they reject the church but because they"re afraid they"ll lose the church.... Continue Reading »

FIRST-PERSON: A new challenge for pro-lifers

This is the time of year when pro-life Americans celebrate the sanctity of human life and commemorate the anniversary of Roe v. Wade, the 1973 Supreme Court decision that brought abortion on demand, nationwide.... Continue Reading »

Poll: Pastors oppose evolution, split on earth’s age

Pastors overwhelmingly believe that God did not use evolution to create humans and think that Adam and Eve were literal people, according to a survey by LifeWay Research. The survey of 1,000 American Protestant pastors, released Jan. 9, also... Continue Reading »

Mary Duke McLeod Reed

Mary Duke McLeod Reed, 88, of West Columbia, wife of retired pastor John O. ?Joe? Reed, died Jan. 1, 2012.... Continue Reading »

Shanghai’s elderly wary from years of tumult

Shanghai"s aging population is expected to peak in the 2030s when the number of those over age 60 will swell to more than 5 million -- about one-fourth of Shanghai"s current population. By then, there will be a shortage... Continue Reading »

First Person: Why Your Church Should Embrace Strategic Planning

If you look closely at history, you come to realize that organizations have a life cycle. You can trace an organization's birth, growth, plateau, decline and death. It is good to remember that every church also has a life... Continue Reading »

My Answer – by Billy Graham

Dear Dr. Graham: My friend claims there were many groups calling themselves ?Christian? after Jesus died, and some even had their own versions of the Bible that differ from what we have. He says this means we can't trust... Continue Reading »

Jim Newton, Baptist journalist, dies at 75

Jim Newton, 75, longtime Jim Newton and former assistant director of Baptist Press, died Jan. 16 at Baptist Hospital Hospice Care in Jackson, Miss., following an unexpected late-fall flare-up of his leukemia.... Continue Reading »

Pastor intent on picking a ‘Food Fight’

The pastor who became known on the ABC TV show ?Jamie Oliver's Food Revolution? found a passion for physical stewardship from real-life experiences.... Continue Reading »

Crossing Carolina for January 19, 2012

RICHARD CLAPP SR. was called as pastor of Givhans Baptist Church, Ridgeville, on Nov. 13. For the past 30 years, he has led Discipleship Training and Sunday school classes, and for 18 of those years he has served in... Continue Reading »