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Terri Stovall

Viewpoint: How to be a Bridezilla

I once served a large church as food service director, special events coordinator and wedding coordinator during a journey in ministry that has taken me through a variety of positions and responsibilities. Our church was a popular venue for... Continue Reading »

Hans Wunch

Viewpoint: Saturday Nights Are Not for Sermon Planning

It is Saturday night. Your week has found you spending so much time at the hospital with church members you are thinking about stopping by Human Resources to pick up a paycheck. You woke up this morning with every... Continue Reading »

David Francis

Spiritual Disciplines of Effective Sunday School Leaders

When it comes to maintaining a vital relationship with the Lord, Sunday school leaders never graduate from the spiritual disciplines prescribed through the ages for all Christians: praising God and hearing His Word in weekly worship, praying to the... Continue Reading »

President’s Perspective: Exposing Exposition

I am indebted to The Courier for an opportunity to write on such an important subject. There are libraries of information on exposition, so I decided simply to answer three questions I believe are worthwhile. What is expository preaching?... Continue Reading »

B. Carlisle Driggers 2014

Remembering the Civil Rights Act

EDITOR’S NOTE: Carlisle Driggers, retired executive director-treasurer of the South Carolina Baptist Convention, reflects on the Civil Rights Act of 1964, signed by President Johnson 50 years ago when Driggers was pastor of 23rd and Broadway Baptist Church in... Continue Reading »

David Jeremiah

Viewpoint: From Me to Them

Just as a frame of reference for this article, let’s step back from the American cultural forest and identify four distinct varieties of trees that have grown up in post-World War II America: — Baby Boomers: born from the... Continue Reading »

In Your Interest: Crazy Tax Deductions

Have you filed your tax return yet? Hopefully you have, or at least filed an extension. Maybe you are still looking for things that you can deduct. If so, you might want to consider what others have tried to... Continue Reading »

Rhonda Harrington Kelley

Viewpoint: Talking Is a Spiritual Gift

My husband once told me I have three spiritual gifts not listed in the Bible: sleeping, shopping and talking! Oh my, I do seem like a shallow Christian. How reassuring to discover biblical support for my gift of talking.... Continue Reading »

Viewpoint: Lead Your Church to Be Evangelistic

Each year it seems local churches are devoting less time, less funding and less emphasis to equipping, encouraging and sending people to share the good news of Christ, particularly within their immediate communities. I believe the lack of evangelism... Continue Reading »

Bill Pritchett

Viewpoint: Through CP, ‘reach, touch, transform’

I was saved as a young adult in a small, Southern Baptist church in Beaufort, S.C. Early in my church experience, I heard about and saw our church willingly and gladly invest 10 percent of our undesignated gifts through... Continue Reading »

Erich Bridges

Viewpoint: God’s Call Is Not a Destination

She wants desperately to return to the hurting people she loves. Laura Miles* is a missionary on hold. At least, she sometimes feels that way. Miles spent two terms overseas with her husband, in places where the people she... Continue Reading »

Movies: Jesus and the films He inspires

“The Jesus Film,” released in 1979, has been recognized by the Guinness Book of World Records as the “most translated film” in history, having been written in more than 1,200 languages. Celebrating the film’s 35th anniversary, Cinedigm and Mission... Continue Reading »