By Jon Duncan Layman, Long Hollow Baptist Church, Hendersonville Having been around children as an educator for close to 20 years now, I remain fascinated at their inability to separate fact from fiction.  More fascinating still is the unwillingness of adults to do the same. In children, this inability is biologically involuntary, cognitive limitation. In adults, this unwillingness is a voluntary, self-imposed limitation. Why let facts get in the way

By Chris Turner Director of Communications, TBC It can take a lifetime to build a stellar reputation. It only takes a single “tweet” to destroy it. That, in a nutshell, is the dark side of social media, especially for ministers (but true of everyone). Many still find it unbelievable that social media has that kind of influence, but social media is like nitroglycerin: useful when handled with care but terminal

By Johnnie Godwin Contributing Columnist, B&R At age 29 and on the cusp of 30, I made a momentous decision symbolized by the use of green ink. Everyone needs something like a green-ink moment of decision.  Some moments mean more than all the others because they mean arriving at a decision, forming a conviction, and color-inking all life with a constant reminder.  My green-ink moment of 50 years ago still

By Diana Davis Reprinted from Baptist Press Each Sunday, we’d haul baby beds, sound equipment, and chairs to our temporary meeting place. We were church planters, and though it was hard work, the results were awesome. Flash forward to present day. Our son-in-law and daughter serve as church planting pastor and worship leader for a new church. Every Sunday, they load a trailer to haul all kinds of equipment to

By Jenna Fleming Writer, Pastor’s Wife, & Member of Union Avenue Baptist Church, Memphis Children today (and perhaps adults in the general populace as well) are often not drawn to what they need, but to what is right in front of them. Truth, goodness, and beauty are available and can be found in nature, great literature, works of art, music, and such, but amusement and frivolity are available as well

By Michael Julian Pastor, Macedonia Baptist Church, Kenton To say that America desperately needs God’s life-giving breath would be an understatement. In recent weeks, many people have cast ballots in the presidential primaries across the nation. We have prayed for direction, listened to our gut, or followed our anger and frustration, but nonetheless we cast our votes. Did we cast them for God or for Egypt (government)? Now, what does