By Matt Tullos Stewardship Development Specialist, TBMB Holidays can get complicated. If we don’t pay attention our debt grows, our peace shrinks and our stress expands. But it doesn’t have to be that way. Here are six ways you can make Christmas a simpler, more beautiful season: (1) Heighten your gratitude. Paul reminds us that anxiety and gratitude don’t mix: “Do not be anxious about anything, but in everything by

Have you ever worked a puzzle? Most people have. I am not a huge puzzle fan (large puzzles for preschoolers are my limit), but my grandfather (Pop) loved puzzles — and the more pieces the puzzle had, the better he liked it. He built a puzzle board (a large flat piece of plywood normally) and spend hours in the winter (he didn’t have time for puzzles in the summer) putting

By James Dean Pastor, New Day Church, Nashville New Day Church launched Sept. 23 at Harpeth Valley Elementary School with 78 in attendance.  Truly what is taking place is a God thing!  My wife Sheryl and I felt called to leave Springfield Baptist Church in Springfield to start a new church in the Bellevue area of Nashville during the summer of 2017. Roc Collins of the Tennessee Baptist Mission Board

By Carolyn Tomlin Contributing Columnist, B&R “Enter his gates with thanksgiving and his courts with praise; give thanks to him and praise his name. For the Lord is good and his love endures forever; his faithfulness continues through all generations” (Psalm 100:4-5). What a promise God gives us! If we praise and honor his name, He will remain faithful to us — even to our children and grandchildren. Throughout the

By Randy C. Davis President and Executive Director, Tennessee Baptist Mission Board Unity. It’s the word that best describes Summit 2018 and it is a word that keeps coming to mind as I’ve reflected on everything that happened last week at West Jackson Baptist church. That’s not just my word. I heard it time and again throughout Summit, and social media has blown up with comments about the unity of