Columns

Now is the winter of our intent

February 16, 2018 By Eric Reed

It’s time for potential SBC candidates to declare their intentions. Will they or won’t they run? Read…

Be a light in the NICU

February 14, 2018 By Autumn Wall

In your community right now, there are multiple families sitting in a room in the NICU. And to those families, small gestures can make a big difference. Here are a few fresh ways to support those families. Read…

When God takes you on a detour

February 9, 2018 By Van Kicklighter

Sometimes God takes our lives on a detour, at least from the plans we have laid out and from the destinations we were headed toward. And trying to get back to the old road is to miss what God wants to do in our life. Read…

Church Planting and Fundamental change

February 5, 2018 By Nate Adams

For me, planting a church brought fundamental change to my heart and mind, that the church should seek and save the lost as its first priority. That’s now what I look for, and long for, in every church I enter. Read…

The Lord’s Supper: Back to basics

February 2, 2018 By Nate Adams

The Lord’s Supper is, in itself, a symbol-rich proclamation of the gospel message, one that should, each time, lead us to humble worship and gratitude. What if we got that “basic” right, every one of us, in every church, every time we celebrated the Lord’s Supper? Read…

We need to talk about the dinosaurs

Chris Turner

I just wanted to know when dinosaurs lived. That’s it. That was the most profound biblical mystery swirling in my head when I began seminary. I landed in the survey class of a professor considered one of the Southern Baptist Convention’s foremost Old Testament scholars at the time. Surely, he’d know about dinosaurs. About 15 […]

A response to physician-assisted suicide

Jeremy Bell

(Editor’s note: Illinois Governor JB Pritzker is considering signing SB 1950, a bill passed Oct. 31 as House Floor Amendment No. 2 to the Sanitary Food Preparation Act by the state senate, that would allow physicians to help terminally ill patients end their lives. If he does, Illinois will join 11 states and the District […]