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The need for long tenured pastors and Christian leaders is significant and necessary. While there will always be a great need for church planters and itinerant ministers and while there are times for the Christian leader to move from one ministry to another, the long-term damage done by short-term ministry in the kingdom of God is incalculable. Read More...
Why are groups such as the National Organization for Women (NOW), the Feminist Majority Foundation, the Women's Media Center, and numerous "pro-choice" groups apoplectic over a Super Bowl commercial sponsored by Focus on the Read More...
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Earlier this month, an estimated 1,000 Coptic Christians gathered in Los Angeles to protest the killings of fellow Copts in Egypt a few days earlier. Read More...
What is religious freedom? In his book, More Than Just a Name: Preserving our Baptist Identity, Baptist theologian Stan Norman defined religious freedom as "the right of each person to be free and uncoerced in his or her pursuit, or lack of pursuit, of a personal relationship with God." Baptists affirm that religious liberty is an inalienable Read More...
Victor Hugo's great 1862 novel Les Misérables tells a story that means a great deal to me personally. It's about a prisoner redeemed by God's Read More...
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The Imagine If... Great Commission Task Force has met two times. God has blessed us with a wonderful team of individuals who live missional lives and are helping lead missional Read More...
If you have ever lived through an earthquake, you will not soon forget it. For me, the recent Haitian disaster brought back childhood memories of the Great Alaska Earthquake of 1964. My family lived on an inlet coastline about 200 miles from the quake’s Read More...
The publishing world sees very few books reach blockbuster status, but William Paul Young's The Shack has now exceeded even that. The book, originally self-published by Young and two friends, has now sold more than 10 million copies and has been translated into over thirty languages. It is now one of the best-selling paperback books of all time, Read More...
Ministry Assistants Conferences Feb. 12 in Graceville, April 22 in Kissimmee
JACKSONVILLE (FBC)-Two regional conferences will be offered this spring to help ministry assistants improve and enhance their ministry skills. The Baptist College of Florida in Graceville Read More Orlando teen founder of Kidz Clothes
ORLANDO (FBW)-It's simple yet profound: a 15-year-old girl saw a need and did something about it. As a result, needy families are benefitting. "This is something that really touches my Read More Longtime Bible teacher dies at 73
Roy Huling, 73, long-time Bible teacher and soul winner at Lake Shore Baptist Church in Jacksonville died Oct. Read More William S. Martin, 83, dies
William S. Martin, 83, retired pastor and educator, died Dec. 27 in Bradenton. In a 50-year ministry, he served as pastor of nine churches, including First Baptist Church in Ruskin and Community Read More Historical society requests entries to preaching contest
GRACEVILLE (FBW)- "Proclaiming the Word of God" is the subject of the second annual preaching contest sponsored by the Florida Baptist Historical Society. All 2010 entries should be submitted before Read More Church, community involvement a common thread for Acteens panelists
JACKSONVILLE (FBC)—Three high school teens, Jessica Bodmer of Key West, Rachel Yeargain of Pensacola, and Stephanie Rodriguez of Port Richey, have been selected as Florida Acteens state advisory Read More BCF student wins car, pays education expenses
GRACEVILLE (BCF)—Baptist College of Florida senior B.J. Shelton found out earlier this year that God provides. And sometimes, He provides in ways that defy the Read More Nichols’ legacy found in lives touched and changed
JACKSONVILLE (FBC)—During his 26-year tenure with the Florida Baptist Convention, Gary Nichols has assumed many roles while assisting churches in their discipleship efforts—dramatist and clown, Read More
JACKSONVILLE (FBC)-Two regional conferences will be offered this spring to help ministry assistants improve and enhance their ministry skills. The Baptist College of Florida in Graceville Read More Orlando teen founder of Kidz Clothes
ORLANDO (FBW)-It's simple yet profound: a 15-year-old girl saw a need and did something about it. As a result, needy families are benefitting. "This is something that really touches my Read More Longtime Bible teacher dies at 73
Roy Huling, 73, long-time Bible teacher and soul winner at Lake Shore Baptist Church in Jacksonville died Oct. Read More William S. Martin, 83, dies
William S. Martin, 83, retired pastor and educator, died Dec. 27 in Bradenton. In a 50-year ministry, he served as pastor of nine churches, including First Baptist Church in Ruskin and Community Read More Historical society requests entries to preaching contest
GRACEVILLE (FBW)- "Proclaiming the Word of God" is the subject of the second annual preaching contest sponsored by the Florida Baptist Historical Society. All 2010 entries should be submitted before Read More Church, community involvement a common thread for Acteens panelists
JACKSONVILLE (FBC)—Three high school teens, Jessica Bodmer of Key West, Rachel Yeargain of Pensacola, and Stephanie Rodriguez of Port Richey, have been selected as Florida Acteens state advisory Read More BCF student wins car, pays education expenses
GRACEVILLE (BCF)—Baptist College of Florida senior B.J. Shelton found out earlier this year that God provides. And sometimes, He provides in ways that defy the Read More Nichols’ legacy found in lives touched and changed
JACKSONVILLE (FBC)—During his 26-year tenure with the Florida Baptist Convention, Gary Nichols has assumed many roles while assisting churches in their discipleship efforts—dramatist and clown, Read More
Poll: South most religious; NE among least
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (BP)—The South is the most religious region, the Northeast and a handful of Western states the least religious, and the rest of the country falls somewhere in between, according to Read More FamilyNet sold again
DALLAS (BP)—FamilyNet, a television and radio network formerly owned by the Southern Baptist North American Mission Board, has been sold once again. Charles Stanley’s In Touch Ministries, Read More Akin tells grads to run faithfully
WAKE FOREST, N.C. (BP)—Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary and its undergraduate school, The College at Southeastern, granted degrees to 116 students during fall graduation ceremonies Dec. 18. Read More Kelley: Choose God’s direction, not yours
NEW ORLEANS (BP)—Their research papers are written and every classroom test taken. But New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary’s newest graduates will face one more exam for the rest of their Read More SWBTS graduates five with Florida ties
FORT WORTH, Texas (BP)—The willingness of Jesus’ earthly father to take the pregnant Mary as his wife illustrates the obedience required of ministers in the face of opposition, Paige Patterson, Read More ‘Build upon the foundation,’ Mohler urges grads
LOUISVILLE, Ky. (BP)—The uniqueness of the call to Christian ministry is bound up in the fact that ministers will not finish what they started because they are laying the foundation upon which God Read More NOBTS notes Florida’s key partnership in naming student apartments
NEW ORLEANS (BP)—New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary’s trustee executive committee has named new apartments in honor of Florida and Mississippi Baptists and approved a Korean-language doctor of Read More Navy linebacker serves Christ, ‘leads by example’
ANNAPOLIS, Md. (BP)—Scott Pospisil knew it years ago. He could see something unique in his eldest son. Ross Pospisil, now a senior linebacker at the U.S. Naval Academy who is preparing Read More
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (BP)—The South is the most religious region, the Northeast and a handful of Western states the least religious, and the rest of the country falls somewhere in between, according to Read More FamilyNet sold again
DALLAS (BP)—FamilyNet, a television and radio network formerly owned by the Southern Baptist North American Mission Board, has been sold once again. Charles Stanley’s In Touch Ministries, Read More Akin tells grads to run faithfully
WAKE FOREST, N.C. (BP)—Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary and its undergraduate school, The College at Southeastern, granted degrees to 116 students during fall graduation ceremonies Dec. 18. Read More Kelley: Choose God’s direction, not yours
NEW ORLEANS (BP)—Their research papers are written and every classroom test taken. But New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary’s newest graduates will face one more exam for the rest of their Read More SWBTS graduates five with Florida ties
FORT WORTH, Texas (BP)—The willingness of Jesus’ earthly father to take the pregnant Mary as his wife illustrates the obedience required of ministers in the face of opposition, Paige Patterson, Read More ‘Build upon the foundation,’ Mohler urges grads
LOUISVILLE, Ky. (BP)—The uniqueness of the call to Christian ministry is bound up in the fact that ministers will not finish what they started because they are laying the foundation upon which God Read More NOBTS notes Florida’s key partnership in naming student apartments
NEW ORLEANS (BP)—New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary’s trustee executive committee has named new apartments in honor of Florida and Mississippi Baptists and approved a Korean-language doctor of Read More Navy linebacker serves Christ, ‘leads by example’
ANNAPOLIS, Md. (BP)—Scott Pospisil knew it years ago. He could see something unique in his eldest son. Ross Pospisil, now a senior linebacker at the U.S. Naval Academy who is preparing Read More
END TIMES: Scholars differ on what the Bible says about the subject
GRAPEVINE, Texas (BP)—When it comes to the end of time, at least one thing is certain: Southern Baptists have a variety of opinions. And according to leading Baptist theologians, nearly all of Read More END TIMES: Is there a generational gap?
GRAPEVINE, Texas (BP)—As a 6-year-old growing up at a time when Hal Lindsey’s “Late Great Planet Earth” was holding sway in Southern Baptist churches, Jerry Johnson was fascinated by the talk of end Read More END TIMES: Explaining dispensationalism
GRAPEVINE, Texas (BP)--Lamar E. Cooper is the interim president, as well as executive vice president, provost and professor of Hebrew and Old Testament, at Criswell College in Dallas. He is also a Read More END TIMES: Book outlines major views
GRAPEVINE, Texas (BP)—Three Views on the Millennium and Beyond, a book in Zondervan's popular Counterpoints series, provides a useful dialogue on the major millennial positions of Christian Read More FIRST-PERSON: Eschatology does matter
GRAPEVINE, Texas (BP)—Thirty years ago I asked a group of college students what book of the Bible they would like to study at a home Bible study I led each week. Then, and the next two or three Read More Humanity is an endangered species
NASHVILLE (ERLC)—Of all the issues that face the American family today, none of them has produced more heartache or tragedy than abortion. Many of us have failed to understand that human life is not Read More Psalm 139 Project
In the wake of a natural disaster, some needs are obvious: food, shelter, water. Others go unnoticed, but the consequences can be even more Read More Partnerships key to Florida Baptist Children’s Homes’ sanctity of human life ministry
LAKELAND (FBCH)—Mary Lou Hendry is on the telephone receiving news about someone’s early Christmas present. That Christmas present is the finalization of an adoption on Dec.18 of a little girl who Read More
GRAPEVINE, Texas (BP)—When it comes to the end of time, at least one thing is certain: Southern Baptists have a variety of opinions. And according to leading Baptist theologians, nearly all of Read More END TIMES: Is there a generational gap?
GRAPEVINE, Texas (BP)—As a 6-year-old growing up at a time when Hal Lindsey’s “Late Great Planet Earth” was holding sway in Southern Baptist churches, Jerry Johnson was fascinated by the talk of end Read More END TIMES: Explaining dispensationalism
GRAPEVINE, Texas (BP)--Lamar E. Cooper is the interim president, as well as executive vice president, provost and professor of Hebrew and Old Testament, at Criswell College in Dallas. He is also a Read More END TIMES: Book outlines major views
GRAPEVINE, Texas (BP)—Three Views on the Millennium and Beyond, a book in Zondervan's popular Counterpoints series, provides a useful dialogue on the major millennial positions of Christian Read More FIRST-PERSON: Eschatology does matter
GRAPEVINE, Texas (BP)—Thirty years ago I asked a group of college students what book of the Bible they would like to study at a home Bible study I led each week. Then, and the next two or three Read More Humanity is an endangered species
NASHVILLE (ERLC)—Of all the issues that face the American family today, none of them has produced more heartache or tragedy than abortion. Many of us have failed to understand that human life is not Read More Psalm 139 Project
In the wake of a natural disaster, some needs are obvious: food, shelter, water. Others go unnoticed, but the consequences can be even more Read More Partnerships key to Florida Baptist Children’s Homes’ sanctity of human life ministry
LAKELAND (FBCH)—Mary Lou Hendry is on the telephone receiving news about someone’s early Christmas present. That Christmas present is the finalization of an adoption on Dec.18 of a little girl who Read More
END TIMES: Scholars differ on what the Bible says about the subject
GRAPEVINE, Texas (BP)—When it comes to the end of time, at least one thing is certain: Southern Baptists have a variety of opinions. And according to leading Baptist theologians, nearly all of Read More END TIMES: Is there a generational gap?
GRAPEVINE, Texas (BP)—As a 6-year-old growing up at a time when Hal Lindsey’s “Late Great Planet Earth” was holding sway in Southern Baptist churches, Jerry Johnson was fascinated by the talk of end Read More END TIMES: Explaining dispensationalism
GRAPEVINE, Texas (BP)--Lamar E. Cooper is the interim president, as well as executive vice president, provost and professor of Hebrew and Old Testament, at Criswell College in Dallas. He is also a Read More END TIMES: Book outlines major views
GRAPEVINE, Texas (BP)—Three Views on the Millennium and Beyond, a book in Zondervan's popular Counterpoints series, provides a useful dialogue on the major millennial positions of Christian Read More FIRST-PERSON: Eschatology does matter
GRAPEVINE, Texas (BP)—Thirty years ago I asked a group of college students what book of the Bible they would like to study at a home Bible study I led each week. Then, and the next two or three Read More Poll: South most religious; NE among least
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (BP)—The South is the most religious region, the Northeast and a handful of Western states the least religious, and the rest of the country falls somewhere in between, according to Read More FamilyNet sold again
DALLAS (BP)—FamilyNet, a television and radio network formerly owned by the Southern Baptist North American Mission Board, has been sold once again. Charles Stanley’s In Touch Ministries, Read More Akin tells grads to run faithfully
WAKE FOREST, N.C. (BP)—Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary and its undergraduate school, The College at Southeastern, granted degrees to 116 students during fall graduation ceremonies Dec. 18. Read More
GRAPEVINE, Texas (BP)—When it comes to the end of time, at least one thing is certain: Southern Baptists have a variety of opinions. And according to leading Baptist theologians, nearly all of Read More END TIMES: Is there a generational gap?
GRAPEVINE, Texas (BP)—As a 6-year-old growing up at a time when Hal Lindsey’s “Late Great Planet Earth” was holding sway in Southern Baptist churches, Jerry Johnson was fascinated by the talk of end Read More END TIMES: Explaining dispensationalism
GRAPEVINE, Texas (BP)--Lamar E. Cooper is the interim president, as well as executive vice president, provost and professor of Hebrew and Old Testament, at Criswell College in Dallas. He is also a Read More END TIMES: Book outlines major views
GRAPEVINE, Texas (BP)—Three Views on the Millennium and Beyond, a book in Zondervan's popular Counterpoints series, provides a useful dialogue on the major millennial positions of Christian Read More FIRST-PERSON: Eschatology does matter
GRAPEVINE, Texas (BP)—Thirty years ago I asked a group of college students what book of the Bible they would like to study at a home Bible study I led each week. Then, and the next two or three Read More Poll: South most religious; NE among least
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (BP)—The South is the most religious region, the Northeast and a handful of Western states the least religious, and the rest of the country falls somewhere in between, according to Read More FamilyNet sold again
DALLAS (BP)—FamilyNet, a television and radio network formerly owned by the Southern Baptist North American Mission Board, has been sold once again. Charles Stanley’s In Touch Ministries, Read More Akin tells grads to run faithfully
WAKE FOREST, N.C. (BP)—Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary and its undergraduate school, The College at Southeastern, granted degrees to 116 students during fall graduation ceremonies Dec. 18. Read More
Philippians 3:2-15; 4:8: February 14- What will it take to change your mind?
You may have heard the story about the woman whose favorite pet died. She brought it to the local pastor to ask if he could give the dog a proper burial. He answered somewhat snootily, that he Read More Mark 13:9-13, 21-27, 32-37: February 14 - Preparing for the future
Priorities are a key to life. Without priorities, an individual drifts aimlessly. Not only do priorities allow us to follow and reach a God-given vision, priorities produce a balanced life. In one Read More Rom. 8:5-8; 1 Cor. 2:12-16; 2 Cor. 4:3-4: February 7 - Are you in the right mind?
If a sour attitude can be changed into a positive attitude, the outcome becomes assured. To illustrate, a country church was planning to build a new church building, doing much of the work Read More Mark 12:13-17, 28-34: February 7 - Living by priorities
Priorities are a key to life. Without priorities, an individual drifts aimlessly. Not only do priorities allow us to follow and reach a God-given vision, priorities produce a balanced life. In one Read More Ecclesiastes 2:18-26; 5:18-20: January 31—wrestling with work
The Bible never condemns the accumulation of wealth, as such. After all, Abraham amassed vast wealth, yet his faith in God provides a high example of one who believed God, whose faith was counted Read More Mark 10:32-45: January 31—How to be successful
How does an individual measure success? Does one measure success by the size of the paycheck? Does success equal a series of initials behind one’s name, M.D., Ph.D., CEO, or J.D.? Jesus lived in a Read More Ecclesiastes 2:4-8; 5:10-16: January 24—Wrestling with stuff
Most pastors can identify with people, who find themselves caught up in the fight for financial survival. Since 1957, I have kept a daily log of my activities. At one period of time while I was a Read More Mark 9:33-43, 47-50: January 24—Following Jesus on the way
Sometimes I express the common sentiment, “Would it not be wonderful to have been one of the disciples?” Then, as I read the Gospel of Mark, I realize that even for the Twelve following Jesus was Read More
You may have heard the story about the woman whose favorite pet died. She brought it to the local pastor to ask if he could give the dog a proper burial. He answered somewhat snootily, that he Read More Mark 13:9-13, 21-27, 32-37: February 14 - Preparing for the future
Priorities are a key to life. Without priorities, an individual drifts aimlessly. Not only do priorities allow us to follow and reach a God-given vision, priorities produce a balanced life. In one Read More Rom. 8:5-8; 1 Cor. 2:12-16; 2 Cor. 4:3-4: February 7 - Are you in the right mind?
If a sour attitude can be changed into a positive attitude, the outcome becomes assured. To illustrate, a country church was planning to build a new church building, doing much of the work Read More Mark 12:13-17, 28-34: February 7 - Living by priorities
Priorities are a key to life. Without priorities, an individual drifts aimlessly. Not only do priorities allow us to follow and reach a God-given vision, priorities produce a balanced life. In one Read More Ecclesiastes 2:18-26; 5:18-20: January 31—wrestling with work
The Bible never condemns the accumulation of wealth, as such. After all, Abraham amassed vast wealth, yet his faith in God provides a high example of one who believed God, whose faith was counted Read More Mark 10:32-45: January 31—How to be successful
How does an individual measure success? Does one measure success by the size of the paycheck? Does success equal a series of initials behind one’s name, M.D., Ph.D., CEO, or J.D.? Jesus lived in a Read More Ecclesiastes 2:4-8; 5:10-16: January 24—Wrestling with stuff
Most pastors can identify with people, who find themselves caught up in the fight for financial survival. Since 1957, I have kept a daily log of my activities. At one period of time while I was a Read More Mark 9:33-43, 47-50: January 24—Following Jesus on the way
Sometimes I express the common sentiment, “Would it not be wonderful to have been one of the disciples?” Then, as I read the Gospel of Mark, I realize that even for the Twelve following Jesus was Read More