I recently had the opportunity to preach during the 80th anniversary of my home church, Shiloh Baptist Church, in Saraland Ala. That church and its people had a significant impact in my life and ministerial calling. It’s been years since I’ve been back, but it is a sweet homecoming every time I return. Such sweet memories. Jeanne and I were married at Shiloh. My brother, Rob, and I were ordained
DYER — For Doug Duncan, there was peace in the Middle East. It was the peace that surpasses all understanding — even in the face of powerfully frightening circumstances. Duncan, a retired pharmacist and a lay leader at First Baptist Church, Dyer, was in Israel when Hamas militants attacked the country on Oct. 7. Duncan was traveling with nine other members from the church. The group, which had arrived in
FRANKLIN — “Every” is the key word in the recommendation the Acts 2:17 Initiative Task Force will present to messengers during the annual meeting of the Tennessee Baptist Convention at The Summit on Nov. 12-15 at the Chattanooga Convention Center. The task force was launched at last year’s Summit in Cordova and the TBC president appointed the task force, led by Nashville pastor Jay Hardwick, for the purpose “of engaging
JACKSON — More than 250 youth, parents and church youth leaders attended the EQUIP Youth Apologetics Conference at Union University’s Carl Grant Events Center last month. Hosted by Union University’s School of Theology and Missions in partnership with the Tennessee Baptist Mission Board, the conference sought to equip middle schoolers, high schoolers and recent high school graduates to properly wrestle with doubt. Four talks throughout the day sought to answer
I’ve been a Southern Baptist church member for 54 years and I was on the cradle roll six years before that. I know all about Mission Friends, RAs, and even the WMU and GAs (I went to GA camp in college as a lifeguard and I attended WMU meetings as a preschooler with my grandmother.) I know children’s choir, Celebrate Life, committees, Wednesday night Baptist business meetings and prayer meetings,
JEFFERSON CITY — A child-sized ring, measuring only about one centimeter in diameter, tells the story of a distant past, but also the future of a university program. The gold circular object inlaid with a turquoise stone, is one of several items discovered during an initial groundbreaking excavation project in the northern Judean Desert — more specifically, the ruins of Herod the Great’s desert fortress, Hyrcania. Carson-Newman University, in support
NEWPORT — Just to be perfectly clear — Campers on Mission are not part-time help looking for a summer job, says Linda King of Woodburn, Ky. “We don’t come in as part-time helpers. We come in to take the load off of the staff for just a little while and to walk alongside them and be like the people who helped Moses raise up his staff,” she affirmed. “We help
FRANKLIN — Mike Puckett, the associate pastor and education director at Grassland Heights Baptist Church, Franklin, could be called the Swiss Army knife of ministry. For the past three-plus decades, Puckett has happily and gratefully served the Lord in all kinds of ways — ranging from student ministry to worship leader to administrative work and all in between — at Grassland Heights. “The call
FRANKLIN — At least three Tennessee Baptist church teams were in Israel on Oct. 7 when Hamas militants brutally attacked the country, which has retaliated with airstrikes on Gaza. As of Oct. 11, the reported death toll was near 2,000 people killed and 2,700 injured in Israel and at least 900 people killed and 4,500 injured in Gaza. Two churches — Sunnyside Baptist in Kingsport and First Baptist, Dyer —
MOUNT JULIET — Tennessee Baptist Disaster Relief is hosting the Midwest Food Bank to provide food distribution in Middle Tennessee. The Midwest Food Bank is a faith-based organization which distributes nearly $34 million worth of food monthly to more than 2,200 non-profit organizations each month from 12 locations in the United States and in East Africa and Haiti. The organizations then distribute the food to needy families in their communities.
I recently had the opportunity to preach during the 80th anniversary of my home church, Shiloh Baptist Church, in Saraland Ala. That church and its
DYER — For Doug Duncan, there was peace in the Middle East. It was the peace that surpasses all understanding — even in the face
FRANKLIN — “Every” is the key word in the recommendation the Acts 2:17 Initiative Task Force will present to messengers during the annual meeting of
JACKSON — More than 250 youth, parents and church youth leaders attended the EQUIP Youth Apologetics Conference at Union University’s Carl Grant Events Center last
I’ve been a Southern Baptist church member for 54 years and I was on the cradle roll six years before that. I know all about
JEFFERSON CITY — A child-sized ring, measuring only about one centimeter in diameter, tells the story of a distant past, but also the future of
NEWPORT — Just to be perfectly clear — Campers on Mission are not part-time help looking for a summer job, says Linda King of Woodburn,
FRANKLIN — Mike Puckett, the associate pastor and education director at Grassland Heights Baptist Church, Franklin, could be called the Swiss Army knife of ministry.
FRANKLIN — At least three Tennessee Baptist church teams were in Israel on Oct. 7 when Hamas militants brutally attacked the country, which has retaliated
MOUNT JULIET — Tennessee Baptist Disaster Relief is hosting the Midwest Food Bank to provide food distribution in Middle Tennessee. The Midwest Food Bank is