By Lonnie Wilkey Editor, Baptist and Reflector [email protected] Annie Armstrong has been in heaven with the Lord she loved for 81 years, but her legacy lives on and she is still making a difference for God on this earth. Annie Armstrong was born in Baltimore in 1850 in a culture where women were not necessarily considered leaders. But she ultimately became a leader and challenged churches to raise money and
EDITOR’S NOTE: Please note that the advice offered in this article from the Tennessee Baptist Foundation is not intended to be construed as tax, legal or accounting advice. This material has been prepared for informational purposes only and is not intended to provide, and should not be relied on for, tax, legal or accounting advice for the reader. You should consult your own tax, legal and accounting advisors before engaging
By Willie McLaurin Special assistant to the executive director, TBMB Decades ago, Martin Luther King Jr. called the 11 a.m. hour on Sunday morning “the most segregated hour in America.” Statistics show that it still is. A vast majority of American churches have congregations that are primarily made up of one racial group, rather than the diverse ethnicity of the general population. People still worship in white churches, black churches,
By Lonnie Wilkey Editor, Baptist and Reflector [email protected] A church family can make the difference in someone’s life. If you don’t believe it, just read the story of Paul Chitwood, new president of the International Mission Board, Southern Baptists’ largest missions-sending institution. Chitwood grew up in a single-parent home for much of his childhood. He readily admits that members of First Baptist Church in Jellico “helped raise” him. He flat
By Jerry Drace FRIENDSHIP, Tenn. — I had just walked into my house. The tree cutters were splitting the last of the limbs from the hundred-year-old hickory tree which had to be taken down due to a virus. Suddenly I heard someone banging on our door. Rushing to the door to open it, I looked into the anxious face of the foreman, Rusty, who blurted out, “Jose, one of my
By Robert Tyson Director of missions for Robertson County Baptist Association On Dec. 12, Ross Douthat, an opinion writer for The New York Times, wrote an article entitled the “The Return of Paganism.” Douthat is Catholic and a theological conservative. He is concerned that the Christian church has lost its focus. He means church members, along with some ministers, are substituting the biblical gospel with other gospels. They substitute Christ’s
By Randy C. Davis TBMB President & Executive Director It is a heavy blow when God determines to bring to light that which is hidden in the shadows. Sometimes the Body of Christ must bear the weight of His judgment when He does. Such a blow was delivered yesterday morning in an article that appeared in the Houston Chronicle. The headline was, “Abuse of Faith.” The extremely thorough story reported
J. Travis Tyler Pastor, Grace Baptist Church, Elizabethton On Sunday morning, Jan. 13, Pastor Vic Wallace preached his last sermon as pastor of Oak Hill Baptist Church in Jonesborough. Beginning in the mid-1950s, Pastor Wallace began a ministry lasting over six decades of pastoral ministry including Flag Pond, Mosheim, Mountain City, Kingsport, and Fall Branch. One of the longest pastorates was at First Baptist Church, Fall Branch, where I met
By Lonnie Wilkey Editor, Baptist and Reflector A few years ago, I was flipping through the seemingly thousands of channels on our television set, not having any luck in finding something worth watching. I finally settled on a program entitled “Homicide Hunter,” a television show detailing the criminal investigations of Joe Kenda, a retired detective with the Colorado Springs, Colo., police department. The real-life Joe Kenda narrates the program which
By Randy C. Davis TBMB President & Executive Director Here’s a riddle for you. What do a banker, a contractor, an elementary teacher, a chemist, an engineering professor and a farmer all have in common? Answer: They are all faithful pastors. Unbelievably, approximately 60 percent of the pastors in Tennessee are bivocational. Let that sink in a moment. The majority of the churches connected to the Tennessee Baptist Convention have
By Lonnie Wilkey Editor, Baptist and Reflector [email protected] Annie Armstrong has been in heaven with the Lord she loved for 81 years, but her legacy
EDITOR’S NOTE: Please note that the advice offered in this article from the Tennessee Baptist Foundation is not intended to be construed as tax, legal
By Willie McLaurin Special assistant to the executive director, TBMB Decades ago, Martin Luther King Jr. called the 11 a.m. hour on Sunday morning “the
By Lonnie Wilkey Editor, Baptist and Reflector [email protected] A church family can make the difference in someone’s life. If you don’t believe it, just read
By Jerry Drace FRIENDSHIP, Tenn. — I had just walked into my house. The tree cutters were splitting the last of the limbs from the
By Robert Tyson Director of missions for Robertson County Baptist Association On Dec. 12, Ross Douthat, an opinion writer for The New York Times, wrote
By Randy C. Davis TBMB President & Executive Director It is a heavy blow when God determines to bring to light that which is hidden
J. Travis Tyler Pastor, Grace Baptist Church, Elizabethton On Sunday morning, Jan. 13, Pastor Vic Wallace preached his last sermon as pastor of Oak Hill
By Lonnie Wilkey Editor, Baptist and Reflector A few years ago, I was flipping through the seemingly thousands of channels on our television set, not
By Randy C. Davis TBMB President & Executive Director Here’s a riddle for you. What do a banker, a contractor, an elementary teacher, a chemist,