By Randy C. Davis TBC Executive Director I travel – a lot. I’ve made my way back and forth across Tennessee this year several times and then some. Most often those trips are made to preach in your churches or associational meetings, to stop and have lunch with a pastor or church member just to visit, or to attend a meeting where small groups of people are gathered to discuss
By Lonnie Wilkey Editor, Baptist and Reflector As it has been for centuries, Halloween will be observed on Oct. 31. According to a study by LifeWay Research, nearly a third of Americans avoid the celebration of Halloween or at least its pagan elements. I agree wholeheartedly with avoiding the pagan elements, but I’m not completely sold on the fact that it is necessary to avoid Halloween completely, especially for younger children. When
By Lonnie Wilkey Editor, Baptist and Reflector Tennessee Baptist Disaster Relief volunteers are a special breed of people. They love the Lord with all their hearts and souls, and they love people enough to do “the dirty work” that most people would run from. I spent time this week with Tennessee volunteers who were serving out of First Baptist Church in Manning, S.C. Teams did flood recovery or, “mudouts,” for
By Ronnie Floyd President, SBC The Southern Baptist Convention is a convention of churches that partner together to reach the world for Christ. As we aspire to this biblical vision of presenting the gospel to every person in the world and to make disciples of all the nations, we must find a way to increase financial resources to this serious and grand vision. I am often asked, “Where is the
By Chris Turner Director of Communications, TBC You know the adage, “Whenever you get two Baptists together you always have three (or more) opinions.” And I know this is hard to fathom, but preachers can sometimes be, well, opinionated. Almost all of them see the world through the lens of a biblical worldview so it is difficult to look at the culture around them and not express their view as
By Lonnie Wilkey Editor, Baptist and Reflector Two things are certain in this world: death and taxes. And not even death is certain should Jesus choose to return to earth sooner than later. We can add one more thing to that list that is certain for sure. You can’t please everybody. We launched the new Baptist and Reflector website on Oct. 7 and we had mixed reactions. Some readers wrote
By Lonnie Wilkey Editor, Baptist and Reflector WTVF (Channel 5 in Nashville) reported on Oct. 15 that Greater Tabernacle Missionary Baptist Church in Lawrenceburg has been “kicked out” of the Lawrence County Association of Baptists. While that sounds good on a newscast and immediately draws the attention of viewers, “kicked out” is not the proper term in this case. I have umpired baseball for more than 30 years and there
By David Evans TBC Evangelism Specialist Steve Parr and Tom Crites surveyed around 1,200 Millennials to find out why they continue to attend church. Out of the 15 factors that they identified, one was viewing their pastor in a loving manner. They found that the children/youth that viewed with affection their pastor were 70 percent more likely to attend church as a young adult as compared to those that did
By Johnnie Godwin Contributing Columnist, B&R When I was in high school at a missions meeting, I felt God’s call to foreign missions. The missionary who spoke actually pled for volunteers and said that we had more money available to send missionaries than we had candidates. He told heart-moving stories of those still waiting to hear the gospel for the first time. I was ready to go then even though
By Randy C. Davis TBC Executive Director Looking across the field at the opponent, it was easy to feel confident. After all, the advance scouts had done their homework, assessed the opposing side’s strengths and weaknesses, and determined this was victory for the taking. Show up, execute the plan, and walk away with the usual rout. Only problem was, this time it wasn’t the underestimation of the opponent’s ability that
By Randy C. Davis TBC Executive Director I travel – a lot. I’ve made my way back and forth across Tennessee this year several times
By Lonnie Wilkey Editor, Baptist and Reflector As it has been for centuries, Halloween will be observed on Oct. 31. According to a study by
By Lonnie Wilkey Editor, Baptist and Reflector Tennessee Baptist Disaster Relief volunteers are a special breed of people. They love the Lord with all their
By Ronnie Floyd President, SBC The Southern Baptist Convention is a convention of churches that partner together to reach the world for Christ. As we
By Chris Turner Director of Communications, TBC You know the adage, “Whenever you get two Baptists together you always have three (or more) opinions.” And
By Lonnie Wilkey Editor, Baptist and Reflector Two things are certain in this world: death and taxes. And not even death is certain should Jesus
By Lonnie Wilkey Editor, Baptist and Reflector WTVF (Channel 5 in Nashville) reported on Oct. 15 that Greater Tabernacle Missionary Baptist Church in Lawrenceburg has
By David Evans TBC Evangelism Specialist Steve Parr and Tom Crites surveyed around 1,200 Millennials to find out why they continue to attend church. Out
By Johnnie Godwin Contributing Columnist, B&R When I was in high school at a missions meeting, I felt God’s call to foreign missions. The missionary
By Randy C. Davis TBC Executive Director Looking across the field at the opponent, it was easy to feel confident. After all, the advance scouts