REMAINING UNCHANGED DURING A SEASON OF TRANSITION
By Randy C. Davis TBMB President & Executive Director Transitions and changes are not the same. That’s important to keep in mind when considering the Southern Baptist Convention. The 2018 SBC was a watershed convention for Southern Baptists. Most of the national news related to Southern Baptists was not good prior to the convention. It […]
WHY I AM THANKFUL FOR STEVE GAINES
By Randy C. Davis TBMB President & Executive Director Messengers to the 2018 Southern Baptist Convention stand at the threshold of two watershed days in our denomination’s history this week as the annual meeting convenes in Dallas. More importantly, these representatives from our network of churches play a central role in the outcomes that lie […]
DR: A STORIED HISTORY AND BRIGHT FUTURE
By Randy C. Davis TBMB President & Executive Director An EF5 tornado dropped from the skies five years ago and roared across Oklahoma’s open spaces at 200 mph. It locked on Moore, Okla., then slammed into the modest Oklahoma City suburb filled with middle-class, salt-of-the-earth people. It bulldozed an elementary school. It was over a […]
THE GIFT OF CAMP (AND PRAYER)
By Randy C. Davis TBMB President & Executive Director One of the greatest gifts you can give your child or teenager is the opportunity to attend church camp. It was a gift for me and it had a significant place in my spiritual growth. I was a new believer as a teenager when I attended […]
A NORMAL TENNESSEE BAPTIST CHURCH
By Randy C. Davis TBMB President & Executive Director Normal is good. I’m a fan of normal. I recently found normal in Howell, about an hour and 15-minute drive straight south from our house in Nolensville. The weather was nearly perfect for an early morning drive with my bride, Jeanne, and we wound our way […]
REASONS TO CELEBRATE THE COOPERATIVE PROGRAM
By Randy C. Davis TBMB President & Executive Director I’m amazed at what God is doing across Tennessee through His people and through the Tennessee Baptist Mission Board. In Dandridge, 15 more boys were recently saved, baptized, and set on the road to discipleship at a detention facility. These precious younger brothers in Christ add […]
IN PURSUIT OF THE PERFECT PASTOR
By Randy C. Davis TBMB President & Executive Director Let me go ahead and say it: Pastors aren’t perfect. Surely that isn’t new information for anyone, but I can almost hear you saying, “Well thanks for that news flash Captain Obvious.” But let me ask, if we already know that why do we expect different […]
B&R’s TOP-10 MOST READ STORIES OF 2017
Based on analytics from the B&R Website, here’s a list of stories that garnered the most views in the past 12 months: 1. PLATT APOLOGIZES TO SOUTHERN BAPTISTS Posted: Feb. 17, 2017 Written by: Lonnie Wilkey, B&R Editor ONTARIO, Calif. – David Platt, president of the Southern Baptist International Mission Board, issued an apology to […]
DOES PRAYER STILL CHANGE THINGS?
By Randy C. Davis TBMB President & Executive Director “… That their hearts may be encouraged, being knit together in love, and attaining to all riches of the full assurance of understanding, to the knowledge of the mystery of God, both of the Father and of Christ, in whom are hidden all the treasures of […]
CHRISTMAS AND GOD’S FAITHFULNESS
By Randy C. Davis TBMB President & Executive Director Aren’t you glad it is Christmas? You can settle into your favorite chair by the fire, watch the twinkling lights on the tree, and sip hot chocolate from your favorite Christmas mug. Finally, you can breathe, just breathe, as you enjoy a quiet reflective moment in […]