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Recently I read two reports about marriage. One indicated that three quarters of people who marry do so only once. The other stated that more than 60 percent of remarriages end in divorce within five years. Another piece of... Continue Reading »

Authentic encouragement is essential to effective leadership. Therefore, as men who share your love and devotion to the mission and causes of South Carolina Baptists, we wanted to offer you a word of encouragement that has blessed our own... Continue Reading »

Chris Murrell CHRIS MURRELL recently celebrated his 10th anniversary as minister of music at Berea First Baptist Church, Greenville. A graduate of Furman University and Southern Baptist Seminary, he previously served churches in Perry, Ga., and Boiling Springs, S.C.... Continue Reading »

Thank you for all your prayers for the volunteer teams this summer. It was a blessing to have them here to work together for the gospel! There were many open doors for them to share their testimonies and present... Continue Reading »

The children’s ministry of Southside Baptist Church, Spartanburg, recently spent an evening packing boxes of food for the food pantry of Greater Spartanburg Ministries as part of their outreach to the community. The children, who assisted Kevin Koger, director... Continue Reading »

The South Carolina Baptist Pastor's Conference is set for Nov. 9 at Riverland Hills Baptist Church, Irmo.... Continue Reading »

On Sept. 24, 2009, the 2009 National Consumer Survey on Personal Finance was released by the Certified Financial Planner Board of Standards. This survey found that 64 percent of respondents do not have a written financial plan in place.... Continue Reading »

The 189th annual meeting of the South Carolina Baptist Convention promises to offer both information and inspiration related to the work of your state convention and ministry partners.... Continue Reading »

It's called "breakfast" because it means "breaking the fast.” I don't know how people get through the morning without breakfast. There are about five to seven hours between the other two meals (lunch and dinner), but there are about... Continue Reading »

Buffalo, N.Y., is the birthplace of David Petro, but he was raised in Charlotte, N.C. He still pulls for the Bills, ?but after the Panthers.? The blue of an October sky only whets the appetite of this Gardner-Webb grad... Continue Reading »

Audrey Butkus remembers being intimidated the first time she met Roy Larsen. Under the circumstances, her feelings were justified. Butkus was a high school freshman in Glen Ellyn, Ill., a 'small, Christian, Pleasantville kind of town,? when she joined... Continue Reading »

I recently attended a meeting of young pastors where we discussed the decline of the church and the need for church planting in our state. We broke down some percentages and statistics into real numbers.... Continue Reading »