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Because You Give: What Is the Big Deal About the Cooperative Program?

In 2025, we celebrate the centennial anniversary of our Southern Baptist Cooperative Program (CP). Since 1925, SCBaptist churches have given more than $2 billion through the CP. Those funds, cheerfully and sacrificially given by cooperating churches like yours, have... Continue Reading »

Climb Together

There is a patch of snow five miles in the air that has captivated the curiosity of the world. Reaching it alone is highly unlikely. If you desire to make a snowball there, you and an experienced companion must... Continue Reading »

The Devastating Doctrine of Love

I was in high school and college in the 1980s, so, naturally, I look on those days with a particular fondness. Those were heady times for a teenage hillbilly. Reagan was in the White House. Herschel was toting the... Continue Reading »

The 2025 South Carolina Leglative Session Begins

The addition of four Republican Senators and a House returning 88 Republicans have conservative hopes running high as the 2025 legislative session begins. Super Republican majorities in both houses could mean bills dealing with parental rights, school choice, and... Continue Reading »

Give and Go

Kelly* is a South Carolina Baptist “sent one.” I met her a few years ago while leading a trip to Los Angeles to serve people on Skid Row. She was educated at one of our South Carolina Baptist universities,... Continue Reading »

An Election to Remember

The 2024 election turned into a big night for Republicans on the state and national levels. Here in South Carolina, as of this writing, it appears Republicans will gain four seats in the Senate and pick up one additional... Continue Reading »

This Grace Given to Me: SC Gospel Saturation in 2025

What did you get for Christmas? What are your New Year’s resolutions? I bet you’ve been asked those two questions more times than you can count over the last several weeks. Christmas feels like a season of gift-giving and... Continue Reading »

Celebrate Cooperation

Those who know me well know that I love being a South Carolina Baptist. I am thankful for each church, association and ministry partner that make up our SCBaptist family. I stand in awe, filled with gratitude, as I... Continue Reading »

I Didn’t Make It to Cooperstown — or Why God’s Plan Is Better Than Yours

A few years ago, we were moving some things from my mother’s house, and I found a letter addressed to myself to be opened after 2016. Evidently, I wrote the letter in the summer of 1991 for a career... Continue Reading »

Till All Have Heard

Chris lived in the shadow of a South Carolina Baptist steeple. He was lost. After years of decline, the church decided to be replanted. Pastor Ed Stewart birthed New Creation Baptist Church, one of our 34 funded church plants,... Continue Reading »

Let the Armies of Hell Take Note: Reflections on the 2024 SCBaptist Convention

I write these words less than 24 hours from the closing gavel of our 2024 SCBaptist Convention at FBC Columbia. My heart is still swollen with gratitude to our God, love for our people, and hope for our future.... Continue Reading »

The Election Is (Finally) Over; What Should We Do Now?

In the wee hours of Wednesday morning, Nov. 6, America’s hotly contested presidential election was called for Republican Donald J. Trump, who now becomes presidents 45 and 47. After four years of leadership from a Democrat administration that pushed... Continue Reading »