THE GOLDEN RULE IS STILL GOLDEN
By Randy C. Davis President and executive director, TBMB Social media has the potential for good, but it also has a dark side that Christians too often get drawn into. It’s time we evaluate ourselves and assess if what we’re contributing to the public market of ideas leads to edifying the body of Christ and […]
WHAT GETS YOU GOING IN THE MORNING?
Editor’s note: This is Part II of a two-part series by TBMB leader Randy C. Davis. Part I, “What’s Keeping You Awake at Night?” can be found online at BaptistandReflector.org By Randy C. Davis TBMB President & Executive Director One of our Tennessee Baptist pastors recently asked what were things that kept me awake at […]
TENNESSEE BAPTISTS HAVE STEPPED IN, STEPPED UP DURING PANDEMIC
Davis, Chesser reflect on first-year anniversary of COVID, look to future By Lonnie Wilkey [email protected] FRANKLIN — During a year marked by COVID-19, Tennessee Baptist pastors and churches stepped up and “took lemons and made lemonade,” observed Randy C. Davis, president and executive director of the Tennessee Baptist Mission Board. Davis and Tennessee Baptist Convention […]
UNDERSTAND THE DANGER OF THE EQUALITY ACT
Editor’s Note: The following is an open correspondence to Tennessee Baptists by Randy C. Davis, president and executive director of the Tennessee Baptist Mission Board. Tennessee Baptists, it’s time for vigilance and action. We stood for life and were heard just a couple of years ago when we needed to speak into prolife legislation […]
WHAT’S KEEPING YOU AWAKE AT NIGHT?
Editor’s note: This is the first of a two-part series by TBMB Executive Director Randy C. Davis. Part Two will appear in the March 10 issue of the Baptist and Reflector. By Randy C. Davis TBMB President & Executive Director One of our Tennessee Baptist pastors recently asked what were things that kept me awake […]
PERSPECTIVE ON THE SOUTHERN BAPTIST CONVENTION
By Lonnie Wilkey Editor, Baptist and Reflector [email protected] Messengers from across the Southern Baptist Convention will travel to Music City in June (COVID-permitting) for their annual meeting to be held at the Gaylord Opryland Resort and Convention Center. The last time the SBC annual meeting was held in Nashville in 2005 , it drew 11,641 […]
ARE WE ‘LOST IN DISTRACTION’ OR ‘NOW FOR MISSIONS!’
By Randy C. Davis TBMB President & Executive Director It only takes a spark to start a controversy. It was just one article, but its publishing in 1896 ignited a flashfire reaction across the Southern Baptist Convention. Sides formed. People postured. Proverbial lines were drawn in the sand. Rhetorical flames fueled by passionate conviction rose […]
WHEN GOD MAKES MUCH OF LITTLE
By Randy C. Davis TBMB President & Executive Director There are times when the peculiar will cause you to pause and think. For instance, during the first of November, the TBMB received an anonymous donation of two pennies in an envelope addressed to no one in particular, and with no specific gift designation. The envelope […]
TBMB LEADER CHALLENGES ERLC OVER LANGUAGE IN AMICUS BRIEF
By Lonnie Wilkey Editor, Baptist and Reflector [email protected] FRANKLIN — A state convention leader has publicly challenged the Southern Baptist Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission for stating that there is a denominational hierarchy in an amicus brief filed by the SBC entity in August. “There is absolutely no denominational hierarchy when it comes to the […]
DAVIS: TENNESSEE BAPTISTS ARE ‘RISING TO THE OCCASION’
By Lonnie Wilkey [email protected] FRANKLIN — As COVID-19 cases begin to rise throughout the state, Tennessee Baptist churches will rise to the occasion, said Randy C. Davis, president and executive director of the Tennessee Baptist Mission Board. In a pre-Thanksgiving video update (view the video HERE), Davis acknowledged the spike in COVID cases. Davis observed […]