By David Leavell President, Tennessee Baptist Convention I’ve been so encouraged by our cooperative work as Tennessee Baptists in the past 12 months. Together, we are making a difference for Christ in Tennessee. In the East, Middle and West grand divisions, churches are joining hands and hearts to share Jesus with a lost and dying world. I love the acrostic T.E.A.M. (Together Everyone Achieves More).
By Lonnie Wilkey Editor, Baptist and Reflector [email protected] I have been critical in the past about what I perceived as an indifference by the North American Mission Board to traditional Southern Baptist Disaster Relief. In recent years, NAMB introduced Send Relief which includes a disaster relief element. I felt that it was competition to SBDR and not needed. I voiced my opinion, which, I might add, many disaster relief volunteers
By Lonnie Wilkey [email protected] According to Wikipedia, the free online encyclopedia, Christianity is “the most adhered to religion in the United States with 75 percent of polled American adults identifying themselves as Christian in 2015.” A Gallup poll in 2017 confirmed the Wikipedia claim.
By Randy C. Davis TBMB President & Executive Director In 1873, a young Dwight L. Moody stood in the vestry of a Baptist church in Dublin, Ireland, talking with Henry Varley, an influential British revivalist preacher. During the course of that conversation, Varley uttered words that rocketed through Moody’s soul and altered the course of Moody’s future ministry. “Moody,” he said, “The world has yet to see what God will
Editor’s Note: Share these 16 reasons to tithe with your congregation on two Sundays this year by requesting two tithing inserts that can be placed in your Sunday worship bulletins. E-mail us at [email protected] and let us know how many you need. We will ship them directly to your church for free. By Matt Tullos Stewardship Development Specialist, TBMB So, your pastor preaches on giving? Thank him. A pastor who
By Todd E.Brady Union University First Man is appropriately titled. Damien Chazelle’s movie chronicling NASA’s efforts to lead the United States to be the first to put a man on the Moon is more about the man who went there than it is about the race to get there or about the Moon on which he eventually walked. Before a joint session of Congress in 1961, President John F.Kennedy said
By David Leavell President, Tennessee Baptist Convention / Pastor, First Baptist Church, Millington I sometimes get the impression that many of us in church would settle for reformation rather than transformation. Let me explain. If one of our members would start attending more regularly, we would be happy.
Editor’s note: This is the fifth installment of David Evans’ Evangelistic Inches series. By David Evans Evangelism Team Leader, Tennessee Baptist Mission Board Jesus’ mandate to make disciples is clear in Matthew 28. The ongoing teaching and learning of the disciple is necessary. The fourth evangelistic inch is “the disciple.” The messenger is never worthy or deserving of such grace and honor but is mandated to be the ambassador.
By Lonnie Wilkey Editor, Baptist and Reflector [email protected] We no longer live in a simple Democrat or Republican world. It’s no longer about whose policies are best for the greater good of the country. We have transitioned into a government where it is liberal versus conservative. It’s morality versus amorality. Americans will go to the polls on Nov. 6. This is the last print issue before the election. As editor
By David Evans Evangelism Team Leader, Tennessee Baptist Mission Board Editors note: This is the fourth installment of David Evans’ Evangelistic Inches series. The previous three columns can be found at baptistandreflector.org and on the The Reaching App. Thus far, we have discussed the first two Evangelistic Inches — “the desire” and the “the tool.” Today, we will look at the third Evangelistic Inch, which is “the opportunity.”
By David Leavell President, Tennessee Baptist Convention I’ve been so encouraged by our cooperative work as Tennessee Baptists in the past 12 months. Together, we
By Lonnie Wilkey Editor, Baptist and Reflector [email protected] I have been critical in the past about what I perceived as an indifference by the North
By Lonnie Wilkey [email protected] According to Wikipedia, the free online encyclopedia, Christianity is “the most adhered to religion in the United States with 75 percent
By Randy C. Davis TBMB President & Executive Director In 1873, a young Dwight L. Moody stood in the vestry of a Baptist church in
Editor’s Note: Share these 16 reasons to tithe with your congregation on two Sundays this year by requesting two tithing inserts that can be placed
By Todd E.Brady Union University First Man is appropriately titled. Damien Chazelle’s movie chronicling NASA’s efforts to lead the United States to be the first
By David Leavell President, Tennessee Baptist Convention / Pastor, First Baptist Church, Millington I sometimes get the impression that many of us in church would
Editor’s note: This is the fifth installment of David Evans’ Evangelistic Inches series. By David Evans Evangelism Team Leader, Tennessee Baptist Mission Board Jesus’
By Lonnie Wilkey Editor, Baptist and Reflector [email protected] We no longer live in a simple Democrat or Republican world. It’s no longer about whose policies
By David Evans Evangelism Team Leader, Tennessee Baptist Mission Board Editors note: This is the fourth installment of David Evans’ Evangelistic Inches series. The previous