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South Carolina Baptists are planting a lot of new churches these days. My observation is that many of these new churches do not have ?Baptist? in their name. And then we wonder why Cooperative Program giving is down.... Continue Reading »

Hannah Gay, the doctor newly noted for curing a Mississippi baby of HIV, calls her decision to specialize in pediatric AIDS ?evidence of divine humor.?... Continue Reading »

He has risen. Amen. The Easter sermon is over. Everyone has gone home. The Easter dinner is put away in the fridge. A new day is dawning. Now what?... Continue Reading »

First Baptist Church in Dallas celebrated the grand opening of its $130-million, 500,000-square-foot campus in downtown Dallas on Easter Sunday.... Continue Reading »

I agree with the March 28 article by Ed Stetzer ('the Media's Yearning Desire for Catholics to ?Get with the Times???). We as Southern Baptists need to get back to being the biblical church.... Continue Reading »

"And don't forget the sugar!" Peggy laughed. I had made her recipe, and, amid all the interruptions here, I had omitted the sugar. The next day at lunch, our grandson Jay said it was good without the sugar and... Continue Reading »

Lives are being saved and families are finding hope for the future in a Zimbabwe village at a time when the country as a whole is battling one of the worst HIV/AIDS epidemics in the world. In a partnership... Continue Reading »

Cindy Winters didn't set out to write a book. But as she journaled about her grief and pain after her husband Fred was killed in his Maryville, Ill., pulpit four years ago, she realized how healing the writing process... Continue Reading »

On Feb. 26, Loraine Bayless collapsed to the floor in the dining room of a California retirement home. The 87-year-old resident suffered a cardiac arrest. Someone frantically called 911, and the dispatcher asked if there was someone present who... Continue Reading »

Dear Dr. Graham: Recently, a couple came to our door and asked if they could read the Bible to us. We said yes, but later I began wondering if they were from a cult. They said Christian churches don't... Continue Reading »

A South Carolina pastor and former trustee chairman for the Southern Baptist Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission says Baptists will be well served by the election of Russell Moore as ERLC president.... Continue Reading »

In Leviticus, we find the guide for holy living that was given to the nation of Israel. Instructions were given related to health and holiness, worship and sacrifice. Five kinds of offerings, which fulfilled two main purposes, were identified.... Continue Reading »