By Johnnie Godwin Contributing Columnist, B&R “We can do it!” greeted me from every mobile that hung from the ceiling of a fast-food chain. It was their motto, and I loved it. So I located the manager and told him I wanted to buy one of those mobiles. His reply? “We can’t do that!” I told him his store’s motto said they could. But policy and procedure wouldn’t let him
By Lonnie Wilkey Editor, Baptist and Reflector As many of our readers know, the Baptist and Reflector is celebrating its 180th anniversary this year. One of our features has been “Glimpses of the Past.” We find articles and editorials from past issues and reprint them. It has been fascinating as I have gone through those issues. And it has been amazing to find that many of the issues that we
By Randy C. Davis TBC Executive Director I’ve noticed a growing verbal trend that makes me uncomfortable to the point that it deeply concerns me. Someone will toss out the Cooperative Program’s unofficial motto, “We can do more together than we can do apart,” but with a mildly sarcastic tone. My concern is with the veiled attitude behind the sarcasm that guts the statement of meaning and reduces it to
By Lonnie Wilkey Editor, Baptist and Reflector In the April 8 issue of the Baptist and Reflector, we reported that the legal fate of marriage in the United States will be debated April 28 before the Supreme Court. With that date just six days away, it is imperative that Tennessee Baptists and Christians fall on our knees to pray for those nine justices of the Supreme Court who will make
By Greg McCoy President-Elect, TBCH It was in 1894 that the Tennessee Baptist Convention first asked its churches to donate to the Tennessee Baptist Children’s Homes (then called the Tennessee Baptist Orphanage.) This was our first statewide offering, but it was far from our last. Since 1963, The Mother’s Day Offering (MDO) has been the biggest single way for Tennessee’s Baptist churches to give to the Tennessee Baptist Children’s Homes.
By Larry Robertson Sr. Pastor, Hilldale Baptist Church, Clarksville As pastors, we are often confronted with issues that we don’t necessarily feel equipped to handle. Addictions might fall into such a category for many of us. It’s easy to preach salvation to a fictional addict we’ve never met. But through the years I’ve witnessed the slavery aspect of sin and it’s made me reconsider how we as pastors, Christians, and
By Randy C. Davis TBC Executive Director Stop. Just pause what you’re doing for a few minutes and think with me about a couple of very important things. Have you ever stopped to consider, I mean really consider, what’s important in life? I feel one of the lesser qualities we as Americans seem to have in our DNA is that we scurry from one place to another — one activity
By Lonnie Wilkey Editor, Baptist and Reflector WEBER CITY, Va. — Johnny Morelock makes it very clear. He is a recovering drug addict and alcoholic. As a result he is able to relate to both groups and that has opened numerous doors for him to share how God rescued him from the grips of alcohol and drugs. “I can talk to an addict. They respond to like-minded people,” Morelock noted.
By Lonnie Wilkey Editor, Baptist and Reflector The Merriam-Webster Dictionary provides several definitions for the word “addiction.” Among them: • a strong and harmful need to regularly have something (such as a drug) or do something (such as gamble); • an unusually great interest in something or a need to do or have something; • the quality or state of being addicted; and • compulsive need for and use of
By Johnnie Godwin Contributing Columnist, B&R Stanton, Texas used to have a sign at the city limits that said, “Three thousand friendly people and a few old soreheads.” That sign probably describes most churches to one degree or another. If the church is the size of a rowboat, it just takes one or two to upset the whole boat. As the boat becomes larger — or like an ocean liner
By Johnnie Godwin Contributing Columnist, B&R “We can do it!” greeted me from every mobile that hung from the ceiling of a fast-food chain. It
By Lonnie Wilkey Editor, Baptist and Reflector As many of our readers know, the Baptist and Reflector is celebrating its 180th anniversary this year. One
By Randy C. Davis TBC Executive Director I’ve noticed a growing verbal trend that makes me uncomfortable to the point that it deeply concerns me.
By Lonnie Wilkey Editor, Baptist and Reflector In the April 8 issue of the Baptist and Reflector, we reported that the legal fate of marriage
By Greg McCoy President-Elect, TBCH It was in 1894 that the Tennessee Baptist Convention first asked its churches to donate to the Tennessee Baptist Children’s
By Larry Robertson Sr. Pastor, Hilldale Baptist Church, Clarksville As pastors, we are often confronted with issues that we don’t necessarily feel equipped to handle.
By Randy C. Davis TBC Executive Director Stop. Just pause what you’re doing for a few minutes and think with me about a couple of
By Lonnie Wilkey Editor, Baptist and Reflector WEBER CITY, Va. — Johnny Morelock makes it very clear. He is a recovering drug addict and alcoholic.
By Lonnie Wilkey Editor, Baptist and Reflector The Merriam-Webster Dictionary provides several definitions for the word “addiction.” Among them: • a strong and harmful need
By Johnnie Godwin Contributing Columnist, B&R Stanton, Texas used to have a sign at the city limits that said, “Three thousand friendly people and a