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Lottie Moon offering gifts total $150.4 million

Despite difficult economic conditions, Southern Baptists gave $150.4 million to the 2007 Lottie Moon Christmas Offering for International Missions to support the work of more than 5,300 missionaries worldwide.... Continue Reading »

In Your Interest – by Valerie Rumbough

If you are trying to pay off your credit card, my hat is off to you. You may find, however, that the balance never seems to go down. In fact, you may have even had it go up. How?... Continue Reading »

Bethel Baptist Church busy moving seed ‘out of the barn’

?If we have the seed, should we wait for the soil to come to us?? That's the question pastor Daniel Lee and the people of Bethel Baptist Church asked themselves ? and answered, with an emphatic no ? recently.... Continue Reading »

Sunday Dinner: Fried Chicken

Today I'm offering you the basic and three other recipes for fried chicken. If you live in South Carolina and can't cook good fried chicken, you ought to renounce your South Carolina and southern citizenship and move to Canada.... Continue Reading »

NAMB trustees review new national evangelism initiative

North American Mission Board trustees heard plans for a new national evangelism initiative and elected Tim Patterson of Florida as their new chairman during a May 20-21 meeting in Portsmouth, Va.... Continue Reading »

Church planters among 119 commissioned May 19 in Virginia

Just a little more than 10 years ago, Todd Briggs didn't know what it meant to have a personal relationship with Christ. Today, he's pastoring EPIC Village Church in midtown Atlanta and telling others how they can know God... Continue Reading »

First Baptist Church, Columbia, presents ‘Celebration of Liberty’

The 21st annual Carolina Celebration of Liberty will be held at First Baptist Church, Columbia, June 29 at 4 and 7:30 p.m.... Continue Reading »

32 South Carolinians receive seminary degrees in May

Thirty-Two South Carolinians were among the graduates receiving degrees in May at New Orleans, Southern and Southeastern seminaries.... Continue Reading »

Regenerate church membership subject of much SBC discussion

Messengers to the annual meeting of the Southern Baptist Convention in Indianapolis urged churches to maintain a regenerate membership by ?acknowledging the necessity of spiritual regeneration and Christ's lordship for all members.?... Continue Reading »

Recognize the warning signs, Page urges Southern Baptists

?Recognize the signs,? outgoing convention president Frank Page challenged convention messengers during his address to the annual meeting of the Southern Baptist Convention at the Indiana Convention Center in Indianapolis June 10.... Continue Reading »

Stop sexual predators, Chapman urges

Southern Baptists have taken strong stands in the past against the sexual abuse of children and will continue taking strong action to protect children and bring sexual predators in the church to justice, SBC Executive Committee President Morris H.... Continue Reading »

SBC Executive Committee recommends D.O.J. database for child sex abuse prevention

The Southern Baptist Convention Executive Committee passed a recommendation June 9 urging churches to screen prospective volunteers and employees with the U.S. Department of Justice"s national sex offender database and said it believes the "potential threat of sex abuse"... Continue Reading »