LOVING TENNESSEE’S UNBORN CHILDREN
By Randy C. Davis TBMB President & Executive Director The most gut-wrenching and soul-devastating site in the world is seeing women militantly demanding the right to kill their unborn babies. I was reminded of this last week when I saw a photo of women vociferously protesting for the right to “keep abortion legal.” How I […]
DON’T JUST STAND THERE, PRAY SOMETHING!
By Randy C. Davis TBMB President & Executive Director There have been some excellent Bible teachers over the last 100 years. Without reservation, I count the late Dr. Ron Dunn as one of them. He was filled with the Holy Spirit and anointed to teach like few men I have ever known. Every message articulated […]
REMEMBERING THE LORD OUR GOD IN 2018
By Randy C. Davis TBMB President & Executive Director You may be overrun with Christmas activities and see a busy 2019 blowing in like a thunderstorm racing across a Kansas prairie. Last minute gifts, parties, travel to be with loved ones, and on it goes. We get to this point of the year and it […]
HOW WILL YOU RESPOND TO LOTTIE’S CHALLENGE?
By Randy C. Davis TBMB President & Executive Director Time passes, transitions happen, and generations come and go, but I pray we as Southern Baptists never lose the missionary spirit of Charlotte Digges “Lottie” Moon. Lottie Moon stood no taller than 4 feet 6 inches tall, but she cast a shadow that’s stretched for more […]
A CLARION CALL AND NOT JUST A THEME
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 […]
TWO SIMPLE BUT POWERFUL WORDS: THANK YOU
By Randy C. Davis TBMB President & Executive Director It’s just two words but they are incredibly powerful when flowing from a heart genuinely filled with gratitude. They can be delivered a number of ways; a text, an e-mail, or better yet, a handwritten note. Think what it means if you receive a call and […]
DEPRESSION: IT’S TIME TO OPENLY TALK ABOUT IT
By Randy C. Davis TBMB President & Executive Director We have a problem and we can’t ignore it any longer. It’s time we were honest with ourselves and with each other. To pretend we don’t face a serious issue would be a life-threatening mistake. I’m talking about depression among pastors and ministers (and everyone else). […]
THE COOPERATIVE PROGRAM BEGINS WITH GRANNY TATE
By Randy C. Davis TBMB President & Executive Director Everybody has their love language. Granny Tate expressed hers by twisting your ear. Hard. Granny Tate was a tiny lady, but she was a giant to me. She really did twist your ear as an expression of love. I wouldn’t have minded if she had been […]
THE MISSION FIELD WITHIN THE MISSION FIELD
By Randy C. Davis TBMB President & Executive Director Aparna had no idea what to expect when she arrived in America and on the campus of East Tennessee State University. Johnson City couldn’t be more culturally different from her home in Northern India. She didn’t know anybody when school started. One day she saw a […]
THE CHILDLIKE AWE AT THE WONDER OF GOD
By Randy C. Davis TBMB President & Executive Director I always love going home. The beauty astounds me. I grew up on the Alabama Gulf Coast and love it. But it’s a little more than just loving it, it’s in my blood. The majority of my earliest memories are of water skiing up and down the […]