It wasn’t surprising to me that this year’s Illinois Leadership Summit was well-attended and well-received by about 200 pastors and leaders from IBSA churches. That has been the growing trend for several years now, thanks to guest speakers like Mac Lake, Mark Clifton, and Dave Rhodes, as well as practical breakouts from pacesetting church leaders […]
The Home Stretch
When I played basketball in college, our coach expected everyone on the team to come to the start of the season with a certain level of personal conditioning. For example, before anyone could attend his first practice in the fall, he had to demonstrate that he could run a mile in five and half minutes, […]
Mom’s ministry
I’ve now written a column in The Illinois Baptist for 19 years. But my father Tom Adams wrote a continuous column in this same paper for the previous 34. Dad went to be with the Lord one month after I started my service with IBSA. But I have always felt that I stand on the […]
Why we’re here
When I served at the North American Mission Board, one of my responsibilities was World Changers, a ministry that mobilized thousands of students each summer to help rehab substandard housing for residents in a hundred different cities. The projects gave students and their adult leaders many opportunities to interact with the residents they were serving, […]
The winds of 2025
Somehow 2025 seems a more consequential new year than usual. Maybe it’s because it feels like just yesterday that people were simultaneously hyping the year 2000 and dreading Y2K. Now, suddenly it seems, we’ve reached the quarter century mark. And a generation of young adults weren’t even born at the turn of the century—a phrase […]
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