By Vicki Hulsey TBC Childhood Ministry Specialist Kids are full of questions. If you are a parent or children’s leader at church, you might often hear questions like: • Are we there yet? • Who else is going? • When are we going to eat? • What are we going to do next? • Are you sure? • Why can’t I? • Do we have to?
By David Evans TBC Staff The recent Supreme Court decision confirmed what many people have already observed. Our culture is shifting and behaviors once understood as contrary to a biblical standard have now been legally validated. Although the world proclaims with the social media hashtag, “#lovewins,” it seems that #religiouspersecution is on the rise. Those who claim to be tolerant express intolerance toward religious freedom. How should the church respond?
By Randy C. Davis TBC Executive Director John Adams and Thomas Jefferson had been key players in one of history’s most significant dramas in the founding of the United States. Years had passed since that fateful July 4 Independence Day. Now, they were two stately gentlemen near the end of their lives exchanging letters and reflecting on bygone days. “My friend,” Adams wrote to Jefferson. “You and I have lived
By Lucyara Usery TBC Staff Blessed to be an American? You should be. Yet, you didn’t choose where you were to be born. God’s sovereignty directs that. Citizenship will shape a lot in life but it will also reflect God’s creative nature. Does your church reflect His nature? Does your church intentionally reach out to a varied universe of citizens? On Sept. 10, 2001, mid-morning, my husband and I arrived
By Lonnie Wilkey Editor, Baptist and Reflector It’s time to take down the Confederate flag from the grounds of the South Carolina State Capitol. As a South Carolina native and born and bred Southerner, I never thought I would ever say those words, much less put them into print. The issue of taking down the Confederate flag in South Carolina did not happen overnight. It has been “on the table”
By Randy C. Davis TBC Executive Director Marriage is between one man and one woman. Period. And, it is impossible for any human institution to declare otherwise. Period. However, the fate of marriage as defined by popular culture has for months awaited a ruling by our United States Supreme Court to codify the definition it wants. What it wants is for marriage to legally mean nothing. Think about it, if
By Lonnie Wilkey Editor, Baptist and Reflector Kim Margrave, volunteer missions specialist for the Tennessee Baptist Convention, recently sent me some information about the national Send North America Conference to be held in Nashville Aug. 3-4. The meeting, sponsored by the North American and International Mission Boards of the Southern Baptist Convention, will explore “what it looks like to live out the mission of God” in everyday life. About 10,000
By Randy C. Davis TBC Executive Director The overflow crowd crammed into the small room and spilled out into the street. You needed to be early or fast to get a good seat. Neither of those are an option when you can’t walk. Late arrivals are relegated to the farthest reaches of the human sea, and a long way from hope. That is unless you have friends committed to doing
By Johnnie Godwin Contributing Columnist, B&R My “Baptist” dad went forward at invitation time one Sunday night when I was 16. I didn’t have a clue why he might be doing that. All my life Dad had done all the Baptist things the rest of our family did: the whole shebang. Growing up, I had never wondered why Dad took me to the Presbyterian Church in Sandusky, Texas, when we
By David Evans TBC Staff In the New Testament, the nature of evangelism is organic (natural and irregular). Evangelism should occur naturally from all believers and will occur at irregular times. Evangelism was not something that was programmed. Instead, evangelism was part of personal preparation. The evangelist was prepared because evangelism could happen at anytime with anyone as the Holy Spirit guided. The heart of the Great Commission is that
By Vicki Hulsey TBC Childhood Ministry Specialist Kids are full of questions. If you are a parent or children’s leader at church, you might often
By David Evans TBC Staff The recent Supreme Court decision confirmed what many people have already observed. Our culture is shifting and behaviors once understood
By Randy C. Davis TBC Executive Director John Adams and Thomas Jefferson had been key players in one of history’s most significant dramas in the
By Lucyara Usery TBC Staff Blessed to be an American? You should be. Yet, you didn’t choose where you were to be born. God’s sovereignty
By Lonnie Wilkey Editor, Baptist and Reflector It’s time to take down the Confederate flag from the grounds of the South Carolina State Capitol. As
By Randy C. Davis TBC Executive Director Marriage is between one man and one woman. Period. And, it is impossible for any human institution to
By Lonnie Wilkey Editor, Baptist and Reflector Kim Margrave, volunteer missions specialist for the Tennessee Baptist Convention, recently sent me some information about the national
By Randy C. Davis TBC Executive Director The overflow crowd crammed into the small room and spilled out into the street. You needed to be
By Johnnie Godwin Contributing Columnist, B&R My “Baptist” dad went forward at invitation time one Sunday night when I was 16. I didn’t have a
By David Evans TBC Staff In the New Testament, the nature of evangelism is organic (natural and irregular). Evangelism should occur naturally from all believers
