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Commentary: Need ‘Attitude of Gratitude’ – by Don Kirkland

Someone has written, ?Gratitude is formed once you realize what you have been given, who you are, and from whom all blessings flow.? I cannot imagine how any believer could fail to realize even one of the three.... Continue Reading »

WEEK OF PRAYER: Human trafficking, amid the despair

Southern Baptists are ministering to those trapped in the sex trade.... Continue Reading »

Letters: Losing cooperative support

After 30 years as a Baptist pastor proudly promoting Southern Baptist Convention missions, I can't believe I am actually writing this: I no longer have confidence in the distribution of Cooperative Program monies through the SBC.... Continue Reading »

Rivelon Church ‘stuffs a bus’ to reach community

Lee Williams, a member of Rivelon Baptist Church, Orangeburg-Calhoun Association, read an article about the Toys for Tots program and said his ?heart opened up? to the children in his area. He began to pray about how he could... Continue Reading »

Sex trafficker knows ‘I make God angry’

Selling drugs and girls, he was told, is a quick, easy way to make money in South Africa.... Continue Reading »

Letters: Best-kept secret?

I wish to write about what might be the best-kept secret in the South Carolina Baptist Convention. On Nov. 14, I had the privilege to hear the Singing Churchmen in concert at First Baptist Church, Clearwater.... Continue Reading »

Prostitute made new in Rio de Janeiro

She has shared her story with Eric and Ramona Reese, International Mission Board missionaries in Rio de Janeiro who have counseled and discipled Viviane.... Continue Reading »

Clinton welcomes Saudi-based group pushing ‘defamation of Islam’

Last July in Istanbul, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton co-chaired a "High-Level Meeting on Combating Religious Intolerance" with the Saudi-based Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC).... Continue Reading »

State conventions expand their Kingdom work

"It"s a real movement of God to see the focus on reaching unengaged unreached people groups [UUPGs] and churches stepping up to the plate taking on that challenge and church planting in their areas," Southern Baptist Convention President Bryant... Continue Reading »

WEEK OF PRAYER: Clinic’s care includes ‘The Best Medicine’

IMB President Tom Elliff and his wife Jeannie visited the Horn of Africa over Thanksgiving.... Continue Reading »

FROM THE STATES: Ky., Ala., Fla. evangelism/missions news

From the States, published each Tuesday by Baptist Press, relays news and feature stories from state Baptist papers and other publications on initiatives by Baptist churches, associations and state conventions in evangelism, church planting and Great Commission outreach, including... Continue Reading »

FIRST-PERSON: This Christmas, give a Bible

God"s Word -- the Bible -- is a gift that can actually impact someone"s eternity!... Continue Reading »