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MOST MINISTERS take a job with a different church for reasons such as wanting to move to a different community, wanting to lead a larger church and getting promoted to a higher position - not simply because they feel... Continue Reading »

IT HAPPENS EVERY YEAR all over the country - budget committees meeting to decide salary and benefits for their minister and other staff members and employees. In small and large churches, committees wrestle with the tough questions of providing... Continue Reading »

Columbia Metro Baptist Association churches are ?right in the middle? of the work with approximately 1,500 persons displaced by Hurricane Katrina who were relocated to Columbia, said director of missions Bill Dieckmann in a Sept. 22 letter to pastors... Continue Reading »

IT HAPPENS EVERY YEAR all over the country: budget committees meet to decide salary and benefits for their minister and other staff members and employees.... Continue Reading »

For days now, I have sat in front of my television, transfixed by the images that are coming back in increasing numbers of Hurricane Katrina’s assault on the Gulf Coast of our nation and especially on New Orleans. I... Continue Reading »

Dale Crowe knows almost instinctively what to do with a basketball.... Continue Reading »

In recent days, the entire nation has been riveted on the states of Alabama, Louisiana, and Mississippi. Our hearts have ached for the loss of lives, homes, businesses, schools, and entire communities. We have been shocked at the news... Continue Reading »

The Bible is a book about good and evil. God created the world and everything in it and pronounced His entire creation good. When sin entered the world through the rebellion of Adam and Eve everything in the world... Continue Reading »

Mike Wagers was suspicious of the couple as soon as they slipped into his cab on Aug. 11. It wasn't how they looked, or what they said. It was what they didn't say.... Continue Reading »

Adversity is something no one welcomes, but everyone invariably experiences. To one degree or another, everyone fails. But you and I can fail without being a failure.... Continue Reading »

Question: Should I give my teen her own credit card?... Continue Reading »

Some people (and I am in the group) think okra is good almost any way you cook it. Others don't like it at all. I like it soft fried, crispy fried, in soups, gumbos, and boiled using the small... Continue Reading »