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Part-Time Children’s Minister. Return Baptist Church in Seneca, SC, is seeking a part-time Children’s Minister for our growing children’s program. Please mail résumé to: Return Baptist Church, 733 Return Church Road, Seneca, SC 29678 or call: Rev. Bobby Holcombeat 864-972-3616.
IN THE SHADOW OF THE ANGELS In fact, Gray believes he and other members of a missions team from a church he pastored may have encountered one in human form on a plane. “Angels are real, and they are all around us,” Gray asserts in his latest book, “In the Shadow of the Angels.”. He maintains, “We may never see an angelic appearance, but we can be certain of KARYN WILTON: GOD'S LOVE WITH A SPOT OF TEA A cup of tea often served as a connecting point for Karyn Wilton while raising her three children. Her son Rob, a church planter with the North American Mission Board, said, “She makes the best tea, and my life has been filled with thousands of hours BETH MOORE ANNOUNCES DEPARTURE FROM SBC, LIFEWAY Beth Moore announces departure from SBC, LifeWay. Longtime Bible study leader Beth Moore has publicly announced that she is ending her affiliation with the Southern Baptist Convention and LifeWay Christian Resources, relationships stretching back more than three decades. Moore made the announcement through an interview with Religion News SBC RESOLUTION 9: STATEMENT ON CRITICAL RACE THEORY The most controversial resolution at the 2019 annual meeting of the Southern Baptist Convention was Resolution 9, “On Critical Race Theory and Intersectionality.” While resolutions are not binding, they are important because they send a message to the larger culture, especially the secular media. One of the issues many had with theresolution was that
AFTER DEATH, WHAT IS THE ‘INTERMEDIATE STATE’? The intermediate state is a person’s condition between physical death and the resurrection. For the believer, it is a time of conscious bliss in the presence of the Lord; but for the unbeliever, it is a time of conscious torment. According to the New Testament, WORLDVIEW: WHY CHRISTIANS NO LONGER FOLLOW CERTAIN OLD Non-Christians sometimes accuse Christians of being inconsistent because they don’t obey certain Old Testament commandments. For example, the Old Testament commands believers to circumcise all male children (Genesis 17:9-14), to offer animal sacrifices (Leviticus 7:1-6) and to refrain from eating various kinds of animals (Leviticus 11). However, few Christians today worry about GAITHER PIANIST ANTHONY BURGER DIES DURING 'HOMECOMING Anthony Burger, 44, known to gospel music fans as the energetic pianist on Bill Gaither’s popular Homecoming television broadcasts, died suddenly Feb. 22 while performing aboard a cruise ship in the Caribbean. He had just finished playing a song with the Gaither “homecoming friends” when he collapsed onstage. BAPTIST COURIERCHURCHESSTATEU.S./WORLDOPINIONCLASSIFIEDSE-EDITION Karyn is the wife of Don Wilton, the longtime pastor of Spartanburg First Baptist Church. “When God called us to full-time Christian ministry, it was Karyn who offered the selling of all our possessions, including all her wedding gifts, so that we could buy plane tickets to the USA. Her entire life has placed the highest premium on serving HOW MANY CHURCHES WILL CLOSE? Speculation runs rampant these days as prognosticators and researchers attempt to predict how many churches will be closing within the next 12 to 24 months. Recently, Barna president David Kinnaman indicated that as many as 20 percent of churches could close within the next 18 months. Speaking to the NPR’s “Here and Now” gathering, heCLASSIFIEDS ARCHIVE
Part-Time Children’s Minister. Return Baptist Church in Seneca, SC, is seeking a part-time Children’s Minister for our growing children’s program. Please mail résumé to: Return Baptist Church, 733 Return Church Road, Seneca, SC 29678 or call: Rev. Bobby Holcombeat 864-972-3616.
IN THE SHADOW OF THE ANGELS In fact, Gray believes he and other members of a missions team from a church he pastored may have encountered one in human form on a plane. “Angels are real, and they are all around us,” Gray asserts in his latest book, “In the Shadow of the Angels.”. He maintains, “We may never see an angelic appearance, but we can be certain of KARYN WILTON: GOD'S LOVE WITH A SPOT OF TEA A cup of tea often served as a connecting point for Karyn Wilton while raising her three children. Her son Rob, a church planter with the North American Mission Board, said, “She makes the best tea, and my life has been filled with thousands of hours BETH MOORE ANNOUNCES DEPARTURE FROM SBC, LIFEWAY Beth Moore announces departure from SBC, LifeWay. Longtime Bible study leader Beth Moore has publicly announced that she is ending her affiliation with the Southern Baptist Convention and LifeWay Christian Resources, relationships stretching back more than three decades. Moore made the announcement through an interview with Religion News SBC RESOLUTION 9: STATEMENT ON CRITICAL RACE THEORY The most controversial resolution at the 2019 annual meeting of the Southern Baptist Convention was Resolution 9, “On Critical Race Theory and Intersectionality.” While resolutions are not binding, they are important because they send a message to the larger culture, especially the secular media. One of the issues many had with theresolution was that
AFTER DEATH, WHAT IS THE ‘INTERMEDIATE STATE’? The intermediate state is a person’s condition between physical death and the resurrection. For the believer, it is a time of conscious bliss in the presence of the Lord; but for the unbeliever, it is a time of conscious torment. According to the New Testament, WORLDVIEW: WHY CHRISTIANS NO LONGER FOLLOW CERTAIN OLD Non-Christians sometimes accuse Christians of being inconsistent because they don’t obey certain Old Testament commandments. For example, the Old Testament commands believers to circumcise all male children (Genesis 17:9-14), to offer animal sacrifices (Leviticus 7:1-6) and to refrain from eating various kinds of animals (Leviticus 11). However, few Christians today worry about GAITHER PIANIST ANTHONY BURGER DIES DURING 'HOMECOMING Anthony Burger, 44, known to gospel music fans as the energetic pianist on Bill Gaither’s popular Homecoming television broadcasts, died suddenly Feb. 22 while performing aboard a cruise ship in the Caribbean. He had just finished playing a song with the Gaither “homecoming friends” when he collapsed onstage. COUPLE OFFERS BIBLICAL ADVICE, HONESTLY IN 'HOME BASE While reading Eddie and Dawn Leopard’s “Home Base Marriage” (Courier Publishing, $14.95), one experiences the feeling not of reading an advice book, but of enjoying a conversation around the table after a pleasant meal. It’s a conversation laced with laughter, tears and real-life stories, but mostly it’s one marked with honesty and openness from PASTORS VALUE DENOMINATIONS NOW, NOT AS SURE ABOUT THE As many Protestant denominations prepare to gather this summer for their national meetings, most pastors believe it is vital for their church to be part of a denomination but doubt the importance of those types of ties lasting another decade. A LifeWay Research study asked Protestant pastors their thoughts on the importance of denominationsand
SADDLEBACK ORDINATION SPARKS DISCUSSION OVER WOMEN PASTORS An ordination service at Saddleback Valley Community Church has reinvigorated an ongoing discussion among Southern Baptists over the title of “pastor” and whether and how that label should be applied to a woman in a ministry context. A post to the church’s Facebook page described the service, held May 6, as part of “a historic BAYLOR'S LGBTQ STANCE NOT IN LINE WITH SEXUAL CONDUCT Baylor University’s Board of Regents approved a resolution May 14 that paves the way for an officially recognized LGBTQ student group on campus, while attempting to reaffirm its commitment to a traditional, biblical perspective on homosexuality and marriage. Describing a “challenging situation,” the resolution said the regents remained committed to “core commitments of our Christian PERSECUTION PERSISTS AS THE GOSPEL SPREADS Kingdom growth is always met with deep spiritual warfare for Aquila*. For him this includes active and imminent threats to his life. “Please pray for us!” Aquila asked a prayer team in a September 2020 message. He had heard that an extremist group was RESURRECTION DAY: WHAT DAY WAS JESUS CRUCIFIED? Published on March 31, 2021. Most Baptists were taught in Sunday school from an early age that the Lord’s Supper and Judas’ betrayal took place on Thursday, the crucifixion occurred on Friday, and Jesus arose early on Sunday morning. Though all agree with these events culminating on Resurrection Day, the exact timing of thecrucifixion
RICK WARREN ANNOUNCES RETIREMENT FROM SADDLEBACK Pastor and best-selling author Rick Warren announced June 6 that he is stepping down from leading Saddleback Church, the Southern California megachurch he founded in 1980. In a message titled “How to Discern the Best Time to Make a Major Change,” Warren, 67, announced the church would begin the official search for his successor in BCM DIRECTOR SMITH RECEIVES HONORARY DOCTORATE FOR SERVICE When Scott Smith received an honorary doctorate May 11 from the university where he has ministered for 36 years, the Baptist Collegiate Ministry director joined some pretty elite company. For starters, Smith became the first BCM minister to have such an honor put upon him at a public university. It’s also only the second timeMOORE LEAVING ERLC
Russell Moore is leaving the Southern Baptist Convention’s Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission, ending an occasionally controversial eight-year tenure, to take a role with Christianity Today. He will begin a role this summer as public theologian for what the magazine described as “a new public theology project.” In a message posted to his personal blog,OPINION ARCHIVES
The goal of hospice is a peaceful death. A peaceful death is achieved medically by providing comfort care measures that bring contentment and an absence of pain. BAPTIST COURIERCHURCHESSTATEU.S./WORLDOPINIONCLASSIFIEDSE-EDITION Karyn is the wife of Don Wilton, the longtime pastor of Spartanburg First Baptist Church. “When God called us to full-time Christian ministry, it was Karyn who offered the selling of all our possessions, including all her wedding gifts, so that we could buy plane tickets to the USA. Her entire life has placed the highest premium on servingCLASSIFIEDS ARCHIVE
Part-Time Children’s Minister. Return Baptist Church in Seneca, SC, is seeking a part-time Children’s Minister for our growing children’s program. Please mail résumé to: Return Baptist Church, 733 Return Church Road, Seneca, SC 29678 or call: Rev. Bobby Holcombeat 864-972-3616.
HOW MANY CHURCHES WILL CLOSE? Speculation runs rampant these days as prognosticators and researchers attempt to predict how many churches will be closing within the next 12 to 24 months. Recently, Barna president David Kinnaman indicated that as many as 20 percent of churches could close within the next 18 months. Speaking to the NPR’s “Here and Now” gathering, he BETH MOORE ANNOUNCES DEPARTURE FROM SBC, LIFEWAY Beth Moore announces departure from SBC, LifeWay. Longtime Bible study leader Beth Moore has publicly announced that she is ending her affiliation with the Southern Baptist Convention and LifeWay Christian Resources, relationships stretching back more than three decades. Moore made the announcement through an interview with Religion News GREEAR NAMES CHAIR, VICE CHAIR FOR SBC COMMITTEE ON Meredith Cook has been named chair of the 2020 Southern Baptist Convention Committee on Committees, SBC President J.D. Greear announced March 11. Greear also announced his appointment of Marty Jacumin, pastor of Bay Leaf Baptist Church in Raleigh, N.C., as vice chair. The Committee on Committees will assemble in Orlando, Fla.,just prior to the
THE CHOICE: BURIAL OR CREMATION? It leaves in its wake a sense of loss, pain and sorrow. When a loved one dies, we grieve, but when a Christian brother or sister dies, we who remain have grief with hope (1 Thessalonians 4:13-18). The question of cremation or burial is a highly personal decision that a number of theologians say is outside the moral law. It is a personalchoice.
WORLDVIEW: WHY CHRISTIANS NO LONGER FOLLOW CERTAIN OLD Non-Christians sometimes accuse Christians of being inconsistent because they don’t obey certain Old Testament commandments. For example, the Old Testament commands believers to circumcise all male children (Genesis 17:9-14), to offer animal sacrifices (Leviticus 7:1-6) and to refrain from eating various kinds of animals (Leviticus 11). However, few Christians today worry about REMEMBERING CLIFF BARROWS Remembering Cliff Barrows. By Bill Cox. Published on December 1, 2016. Upon Cliff Barrow’s recent death, Billy Graham suggested that his and Cliff’s names should have had a hyphen between them. That’s how much Cliff meant to Dr. Graham and their shared ministry. Leading music was just the tip of the iceberg when it came to Cliff’s STUDY CONFIRMS: MAJORITY OF COLLEGE STUDENTS DROP OUT OF Church pews may be full of teenagers, but a new study says college students might be a much rarer sight on Sunday mornings. Two-thirds (66 percent) of American young adults who attended a Protestant church regularly for at least a year as a teenager say they also dropped out for at least a year between the ages of 18 and 22, according to a new study from LifeWay Research. WES CHURCH CALLED AS PASTOR OF FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH By Rudy Gray. Published on September 6, 2018. From the “stirring” of his heart as a camper at Camp McCall to accepting the call as senior pastor of First Baptist Church, Columbia, Wes Church’s life has been marked by God’s grace and providential leadership as he sought to be an obedient follower of Christ. In recalling that week at BAPTIST COURIERCHURCHESSTATEU.S./WORLDOPINIONCLASSIFIEDSE-EDITION Karyn is the wife of Don Wilton, the longtime pastor of Spartanburg First Baptist Church. “When God called us to full-time Christian ministry, it was Karyn who offered the selling of all our possessions, including all her wedding gifts, so that we could buy plane tickets to the USA. Her entire life has placed the highest premium on servingCLASSIFIEDS ARCHIVE
Part-Time Children’s Minister. Return Baptist Church in Seneca, SC, is seeking a part-time Children’s Minister for our growing children’s program. Please mail résumé to: Return Baptist Church, 733 Return Church Road, Seneca, SC 29678 or call: Rev. Bobby Holcombeat 864-972-3616.
HOW MANY CHURCHES WILL CLOSE? Speculation runs rampant these days as prognosticators and researchers attempt to predict how many churches will be closing within the next 12 to 24 months. Recently, Barna president David Kinnaman indicated that as many as 20 percent of churches could close within the next 18 months. Speaking to the NPR’s “Here and Now” gathering, he BETH MOORE ANNOUNCES DEPARTURE FROM SBC, LIFEWAY Beth Moore announces departure from SBC, LifeWay. Longtime Bible study leader Beth Moore has publicly announced that she is ending her affiliation with the Southern Baptist Convention and LifeWay Christian Resources, relationships stretching back more than three decades. Moore made the announcement through an interview with Religion News GREEAR NAMES CHAIR, VICE CHAIR FOR SBC COMMITTEE ON Meredith Cook has been named chair of the 2020 Southern Baptist Convention Committee on Committees, SBC President J.D. Greear announced March 11. Greear also announced his appointment of Marty Jacumin, pastor of Bay Leaf Baptist Church in Raleigh, N.C., as vice chair. The Committee on Committees will assemble in Orlando, Fla.,just prior to the
THE CHOICE: BURIAL OR CREMATION? It leaves in its wake a sense of loss, pain and sorrow. When a loved one dies, we grieve, but when a Christian brother or sister dies, we who remain have grief with hope (1 Thessalonians 4:13-18). The question of cremation or burial is a highly personal decision that a number of theologians say is outside the moral law. It is a personalchoice.
WORLDVIEW: WHY CHRISTIANS NO LONGER FOLLOW CERTAIN OLD Non-Christians sometimes accuse Christians of being inconsistent because they don’t obey certain Old Testament commandments. For example, the Old Testament commands believers to circumcise all male children (Genesis 17:9-14), to offer animal sacrifices (Leviticus 7:1-6) and to refrain from eating various kinds of animals (Leviticus 11). However, few Christians today worry about REMEMBERING CLIFF BARROWS Remembering Cliff Barrows. By Bill Cox. Published on December 1, 2016. Upon Cliff Barrow’s recent death, Billy Graham suggested that his and Cliff’s names should have had a hyphen between them. That’s how much Cliff meant to Dr. Graham and their shared ministry. Leading music was just the tip of the iceberg when it came to Cliff’s STUDY CONFIRMS: MAJORITY OF COLLEGE STUDENTS DROP OUT OF Church pews may be full of teenagers, but a new study says college students might be a much rarer sight on Sunday mornings. Two-thirds (66 percent) of American young adults who attended a Protestant church regularly for at least a year as a teenager say they also dropped out for at least a year between the ages of 18 and 22, according to a new study from LifeWay Research. WES CHURCH CALLED AS PASTOR OF FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH By Rudy Gray. Published on September 6, 2018. From the “stirring” of his heart as a camper at Camp McCall to accepting the call as senior pastor of First Baptist Church, Columbia, Wes Church’s life has been marked by God’s grace and providential leadership as he sought to be an obedient follower of Christ. In recalling that week at PASTORS VALUE DENOMINATIONS NOW, NOT AS SURE ABOUT THE As many Protestant denominations prepare to gather this summer for their national meetings, most pastors believe it is vital for their church to be part of a denomination but doubt the importance of those types of ties lasting another decade. A LifeWay Research study asked Protestant pastors their thoughts on the importance of denominationsand
SADDLEBACK ORDINATION SPARKS DISCUSSION OVER WOMEN PASTORS An ordination service at Saddleback Valley Community Church has reinvigorated an ongoing discussion among Southern Baptists over the title of “pastor” and whether and how that label should be applied to a woman in a ministry context. A post to the church’s Facebook page described the service, held May 6, as part of “a historic RICK WARREN ANNOUNCES RETIREMENT FROM SADDLEBACK Pastor and best-selling author Rick Warren announced June 6 that he is stepping down from leading Saddleback Church, the Southern California megachurch he founded in 1980. In a message titled “How to Discern the Best Time to Make a Major Change,” Warren, 67, announced the church would begin the official search for his successor in PERSECUTION PERSISTS AS THE GOSPEL SPREADS Kingdom growth is always met with deep spiritual warfare for Aquila*. For him this includes active and imminent threats to his life. “Please pray for us!” Aquila asked a prayer team in a September 2020 message. He had heard that an extremist group was BCM DIRECTOR SMITH RECEIVES HONORARY DOCTORATE FOR SERVICE When Scott Smith received an honorary doctorate May 11 from the university where he has ministered for 36 years, the Baptist Collegiate Ministry director joined some pretty elite company. For starters, Smith became the first BCM minister to have such an honor put upon him at a public university. It’s also only the second time BAYLOR'S LGBTQ STANCE NOT IN LINE WITH SEXUAL CONDUCT Baylor University’s Board of Regents approved a resolution May 14 that paves the way for an officially recognized LGBTQ student group on campus, while attempting to reaffirm its commitment to a traditional, biblical perspective on homosexuality and marriage. Describing a “challenging situation,” the resolution said the regents remained committed to “core commitments of our Christian COMIC BELIEF: THE ANGELS ARE LAUGHING I travel around the country telling people that their attitude is either their best friend or worst enemy. It isn’t the position in life; it’s the disposition. Now I’m not one of those positive blab-it-and-grab-it guys. I do tell everyone that it’s a fallen world, that Murphy was an optimist, and that there will beMOORE LEAVING ERLC
Russell Moore is leaving the Southern Baptist Convention’s Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission, ending an occasionally controversial eight-year tenure, to take a role with Christianity Today. He will begin a role this summer as public theologian for what the magazine described as “a new public theology project.” In a message posted to his personal blog,OPINION ARCHIVES
The goal of hospice is a peaceful death. A peaceful death is achieved medically by providing comfort care measures that bring contentment and an absence of pain. PSALM 42 AND 43: THIRSTING FOR GOD Psalm 42 begins with the psalmist hungering and thirsting for God’s presence (Psalm 42:1-2). To thirst for something means that you don’t have enough of what you want. The psalmist’s enemies were taunting him and claiming that God had left him (42:3, 9-10; 43:1-2). The important point is to bring our sense of emptiness to God inprayer
BAPTIST COURIERCHURCHESSTATEU.S./WORLDOPINIONCLASSIFIEDSE-EDITION Karyn is the wife of Don Wilton, the longtime pastor of Spartanburg First Baptist Church. “When God called us to full-time Christian ministry, it was Karyn who offered the selling of all our possessions, including all her wedding gifts, so that we could buy plane tickets to the USA. Her entire life has placed the highest premium on serving HOW MANY CHURCHES WILL CLOSE? Speculation runs rampant these days as prognosticators and researchers attempt to predict how many churches will be closing within the next 12 to 24 months. Recently, Barna president David Kinnaman indicated that as many as 20 percent of churches could close within the next 18 months. Speaking to the NPR’s “Here and Now” gathering, heCLASSIFIEDS ARCHIVE
Part-Time Children’s Minister. Return Baptist Church in Seneca, SC, is seeking a part-time Children’s Minister for our growing children’s program. Please mail résumé to: Return Baptist Church, 733 Return Church Road, Seneca, SC 29678 or call: Rev. Bobby Holcombeat 864-972-3616.
BETH MOORE ANNOUNCES DEPARTURE FROM SBC, LIFEWAY Beth Moore announces departure from SBC, LifeWay. Longtime Bible study leader Beth Moore has publicly announced that she is ending her affiliation with the Southern Baptist Convention and LifeWay Christian Resources, relationships stretching back more than three decades. Moore made the announcement through an interview with Religion News KARYN WILTON: GOD'S LOVE WITH A SPOT OF TEA A cup of tea often served as a connecting point for Karyn Wilton while raising her three children. Her son Rob, a church planter with the North American Mission Board, said, “She makes the best tea, and my life has been filled with thousands of hours THE CHOICE: BURIAL OR CREMATION? It leaves in its wake a sense of loss, pain and sorrow. When a loved one dies, we grieve, but when a Christian brother or sister dies, we who remain have grief with hope (1 Thessalonians 4:13-18). The question of cremation or burial is a highly personal decision that a number of theologians say is outside the moral law. It is a personalchoice.
SBC RESOLUTION 9: STATEMENT ON CRITICAL RACE THEORY The most controversial resolution at the 2019 annual meeting of the Southern Baptist Convention was Resolution 9, “On Critical Race Theory and Intersectionality.” While resolutions are not binding, they are important because they send a message to the larger culture, especially the secular media. One of the issues many had with theresolution was that
WORLDVIEW: WHY CHRISTIANS NO LONGER FOLLOW CERTAIN OLD Non-Christians sometimes accuse Christians of being inconsistent because they don’t obey certain Old Testament commandments. For example, the Old Testament commands believers to circumcise all male children (Genesis 17:9-14), to offer animal sacrifices (Leviticus 7:1-6) and to refrain from eating various kinds of animals (Leviticus 11). However, few Christians today worry about STUDY CONFIRMS: MAJORITY OF COLLEGE STUDENTS DROP OUT OF Church pews may be full of teenagers, but a new study says college students might be a much rarer sight on Sunday mornings. Two-thirds (66 percent) of American young adults who attended a Protestant church regularly for at least a year as a teenager say they also dropped out for at least a year between the ages of 18 and 22, according to a new study from LifeWay Research. GAITHER PIANIST ANTHONY BURGER DIES DURING 'HOMECOMING Anthony Burger, 44, known to gospel music fans as the energetic pianist on Bill Gaither’s popular Homecoming television broadcasts, died suddenly Feb. 22 while performing aboard a cruise ship in the Caribbean. He had just finished playing a song with the Gaither “homecoming friends” when he collapsed onstage. BAPTIST COURIERCHURCHESSTATEU.S./WORLDOPINIONCLASSIFIEDSE-EDITION Karyn is the wife of Don Wilton, the longtime pastor of Spartanburg First Baptist Church. “When God called us to full-time Christian ministry, it was Karyn who offered the selling of all our possessions, including all her wedding gifts, so that we could buy plane tickets to the USA. Her entire life has placed the highest premium on serving HOW MANY CHURCHES WILL CLOSE? Speculation runs rampant these days as prognosticators and researchers attempt to predict how many churches will be closing within the next 12 to 24 months. Recently, Barna president David Kinnaman indicated that as many as 20 percent of churches could close within the next 18 months. Speaking to the NPR’s “Here and Now” gathering, heCLASSIFIEDS ARCHIVE
Part-Time Children’s Minister. Return Baptist Church in Seneca, SC, is seeking a part-time Children’s Minister for our growing children’s program. Please mail résumé to: Return Baptist Church, 733 Return Church Road, Seneca, SC 29678 or call: Rev. Bobby Holcombeat 864-972-3616.
BETH MOORE ANNOUNCES DEPARTURE FROM SBC, LIFEWAY Beth Moore announces departure from SBC, LifeWay. Longtime Bible study leader Beth Moore has publicly announced that she is ending her affiliation with the Southern Baptist Convention and LifeWay Christian Resources, relationships stretching back more than three decades. Moore made the announcement through an interview with Religion News KARYN WILTON: GOD'S LOVE WITH A SPOT OF TEA A cup of tea often served as a connecting point for Karyn Wilton while raising her three children. Her son Rob, a church planter with the North American Mission Board, said, “She makes the best tea, and my life has been filled with thousands of hours THE CHOICE: BURIAL OR CREMATION? It leaves in its wake a sense of loss, pain and sorrow. When a loved one dies, we grieve, but when a Christian brother or sister dies, we who remain have grief with hope (1 Thessalonians 4:13-18). The question of cremation or burial is a highly personal decision that a number of theologians say is outside the moral law. It is a personalchoice.
SBC RESOLUTION 9: STATEMENT ON CRITICAL RACE THEORY The most controversial resolution at the 2019 annual meeting of the Southern Baptist Convention was Resolution 9, “On Critical Race Theory and Intersectionality.” While resolutions are not binding, they are important because they send a message to the larger culture, especially the secular media. One of the issues many had with theresolution was that
WORLDVIEW: WHY CHRISTIANS NO LONGER FOLLOW CERTAIN OLD Non-Christians sometimes accuse Christians of being inconsistent because they don’t obey certain Old Testament commandments. For example, the Old Testament commands believers to circumcise all male children (Genesis 17:9-14), to offer animal sacrifices (Leviticus 7:1-6) and to refrain from eating various kinds of animals (Leviticus 11). However, few Christians today worry about STUDY CONFIRMS: MAJORITY OF COLLEGE STUDENTS DROP OUT OF Church pews may be full of teenagers, but a new study says college students might be a much rarer sight on Sunday mornings. Two-thirds (66 percent) of American young adults who attended a Protestant church regularly for at least a year as a teenager say they also dropped out for at least a year between the ages of 18 and 22, according to a new study from LifeWay Research. GAITHER PIANIST ANTHONY BURGER DIES DURING 'HOMECOMING Anthony Burger, 44, known to gospel music fans as the energetic pianist on Bill Gaither’s popular Homecoming television broadcasts, died suddenly Feb. 22 while performing aboard a cruise ship in the Caribbean. He had just finished playing a song with the Gaither “homecoming friends” when he collapsed onstage. DR VOLS HELP DURING COVID-19 When help was needed with COVID-19 vaccination clinics and food distribution in the Grand Strand, South Carolina Baptist Convention Disaster Relief volunteers answered the call. Before the vaccine became widely available in drugstores and other places, the McLeod Health System conducted mass vaccine clinics throughout Horry County. Local SCBC DR volunteers aided with traffic flow, 'PONDERING PROVERBS' IS 2-VOLUME STUDY OF BIBLICAL WISDOM Tom Hinkle, pastor of St. John’s Bethel Baptist Church in Moncks Corner, has written a two-volume study guide, “Pondering Proverbs: A Devotional Look at God’s Wisdom” (Courier Publishing, $17.95 per volume). The twin volumes total 752 pages; Vol. 1 covers the first 16 chapters of Proverbs, Vol. 2 chapters 17-31. “Pondering Proverbs”is not intended
PERSECUTION PERSISTS AS THE GOSPEL SPREADS Kingdom growth is always met with deep spiritual warfare for Aquila*. For him this includes active and imminent threats to his life. “Please pray for us!” Aquila asked a prayer team in a September 2020 message. He had heard that an extremist group was BIBLE STUDY FOR SMALL GROUPS: THE DISTURBING FOUNDATION OF The Anglican bishop N.T. Wright is reputed to have said, “Wherever St. Paul went, there was a riot. Wherever I go, they serve tea.” Over the next several months, we are going to look at two books by one of the most important writers in the Bible: the Apostle Paul. The Jewnamed Saul had
BCM DIRECTOR SMITH RECEIVES HONORARY DOCTORATE FOR SERVICE When Scott Smith received an honorary doctorate May 11 from the university where he has ministered for 36 years, the Baptist Collegiate Ministry director joined some pretty elite company. For starters, Smith became the first BCM minister to have such an honor put upon him at a public university. It’s also only the second time OUTSIDE THE WALLS: SMALL TOWN, BIG DEAL Outside the Walls: Small Town, Big Deal. By Lee Clamp. Lee Clamp is chief strategic officer for the South Carolina Baptist Convention. Find him on Facebook (Lee Clamp) and Twitter (@leeclamp). Published on March 8, 2021. I remember the day that our world changed in the small town where I grew up. Everyone was talking about it. LEGISLATIVE UPDATE: 2021 SC LEGISLATIVE SESSION Thursday, May 13, marked the official end of the 2021 South Carolina Legislative session. State lawmakers will return to Columbia later to wrap up final approval of the budget, deal with any vetoes issued by the Governor, and work through redistricting when the census information is released at the federal level; however, work on bills making their way through the process will be halted until COMIC BELIEF: THE ANGELS ARE LAUGHING I travel around the country telling people that their attitude is either their best friend or worst enemy. It isn’t the position in life; it’s the disposition. Now I’m not one of those positive blab-it-and-grab-it guys. I do tell everyone that it’s a fallen world, that Murphy was an optimist, and that there will beMOORE LEAVING ERLC
Russell Moore is leaving the Southern Baptist Convention’s Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission, ending an occasionally controversial eight-year tenure, to take a role with Christianity Today. He will begin a role this summer as public theologian for what the magazine described as “a new public theology project.” In a message posted to his personal blog, SOUTHERN BAPTIST CONVENTION COMES TO NASHVILLE'S MUSIC This year’s annual meeting of the Southern Baptist Convention will convene June 15 and 16 at the Nashville Music City Center. Generating the most comments has been the election of president. Four candidates will be nominated for president: R. Albert Mohler Jr., president of Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, Louisville, Ky.; Mike Stone,pastor of Emmanuel
BAPTIST COURIERCHURCHESSTATEU.S./WORLDOPINIONCLASSIFIEDSE-EDITION Karyn is the wife of Don Wilton, the longtime pastor of Spartanburg First Baptist Church. “When God called us to full-time Christian ministry, it was Karyn who offered the selling of all our possessions, including all her wedding gifts, so that we could buy plane tickets to the USA. Her entire life has placed the highest premium on servingCLASSIFIEDS ARCHIVE
Part-Time Children’s Minister. Return Baptist Church in Seneca, SC, is seeking a part-time Children’s Minister for our growing children’s program. Please mail résumé to: Return Baptist Church, 733 Return Church Road, Seneca, SC 29678 or call: Rev. Bobby Holcombeat 864-972-3616.
HOW MANY CHURCHES WILL CLOSE? Speculation runs rampant these days as prognosticators and researchers attempt to predict how many churches will be closing within the next 12 to 24 months. Recently, Barna president David Kinnaman indicated that as many as 20 percent of churches could close within the next 18 months. Speaking to the NPR’s “Here and Now” gathering, he BETH MOORE ANNOUNCES DEPARTURE FROM SBC, LIFEWAY Beth Moore announces departure from SBC, LifeWay. Longtime Bible study leader Beth Moore has publicly announced that she is ending her affiliation with the Southern Baptist Convention and LifeWay Christian Resources, relationships stretching back more than three decades. Moore made the announcement through an interview with Religion News GREEAR NAMES CHAIR, VICE CHAIR FOR SBC COMMITTEE ON Meredith Cook has been named chair of the 2020 Southern Baptist Convention Committee on Committees, SBC President J.D. Greear announced March 11. Greear also announced his appointment of Marty Jacumin, pastor of Bay Leaf Baptist Church in Raleigh, N.C., as vice chair. The Committee on Committees will assemble in Orlando, Fla.,just prior to the
THE CHOICE: BURIAL OR CREMATION? It leaves in its wake a sense of loss, pain and sorrow. When a loved one dies, we grieve, but when a Christian brother or sister dies, we who remain have grief with hope (1 Thessalonians 4:13-18). The question of cremation or burial is a highly personal decision that a number of theologians say is outside the moral law. It is a personalchoice.
SBC RESOLUTION 9: STATEMENT ON CRITICAL RACE THEORY The most controversial resolution at the 2019 annual meeting of the Southern Baptist Convention was Resolution 9, “On Critical Race Theory and Intersectionality.” While resolutions are not binding, they are important because they send a message to the larger culture, especially the secular media. One of the issues many had with theresolution was that
WHATEVER HAPPENED TO SUNDAY SCHOOL? From the mid-1940s to the mid-1950s, Southern Baptists lived on the cutting edge of church growth, primarily by growing strong and evangelistic Sunday schools. Today we are viewed as a denomination in decline, with decreases in baptisms, worship attendance, church membership and Sunday school attendance spanning at least eight years. If Sunday school was the REMEMBERING CLIFF BARROWS Remembering Cliff Barrows. By Bill Cox. Published on December 1, 2016. Upon Cliff Barrow’s recent death, Billy Graham suggested that his and Cliff’s names should have had a hyphen between them. That’s how much Cliff meant to Dr. Graham and their shared ministry. Leading music was just the tip of the iceberg when it came to Cliff’s STUDY CONFIRMS: MAJORITY OF COLLEGE STUDENTS DROP OUT OF Church pews may be full of teenagers, but a new study says college students might be a much rarer sight on Sunday mornings. Two-thirds (66 percent) of American young adults who attended a Protestant church regularly for at least a year as a teenager say they also dropped out for at least a year between the ages of 18 and 22, according to a new study from LifeWay Research. BAPTIST COURIERCHURCHESSTATEU.S./WORLDOPINIONCLASSIFIEDSE-EDITION Karyn is the wife of Don Wilton, the longtime pastor of Spartanburg First Baptist Church. “When God called us to full-time Christian ministry, it was Karyn who offered the selling of all our possessions, including all her wedding gifts, so that we could buy plane tickets to the USA. Her entire life has placed the highest premium on servingCLASSIFIEDS ARCHIVE
Part-Time Children’s Minister. Return Baptist Church in Seneca, SC, is seeking a part-time Children’s Minister for our growing children’s program. Please mail résumé to: Return Baptist Church, 733 Return Church Road, Seneca, SC 29678 or call: Rev. Bobby Holcombeat 864-972-3616.
HOW MANY CHURCHES WILL CLOSE? Speculation runs rampant these days as prognosticators and researchers attempt to predict how many churches will be closing within the next 12 to 24 months. Recently, Barna president David Kinnaman indicated that as many as 20 percent of churches could close within the next 18 months. Speaking to the NPR’s “Here and Now” gathering, he BETH MOORE ANNOUNCES DEPARTURE FROM SBC, LIFEWAY Beth Moore announces departure from SBC, LifeWay. Longtime Bible study leader Beth Moore has publicly announced that she is ending her affiliation with the Southern Baptist Convention and LifeWay Christian Resources, relationships stretching back more than three decades. Moore made the announcement through an interview with Religion News GREEAR NAMES CHAIR, VICE CHAIR FOR SBC COMMITTEE ON Meredith Cook has been named chair of the 2020 Southern Baptist Convention Committee on Committees, SBC President J.D. Greear announced March 11. Greear also announced his appointment of Marty Jacumin, pastor of Bay Leaf Baptist Church in Raleigh, N.C., as vice chair. The Committee on Committees will assemble in Orlando, Fla.,just prior to the
THE CHOICE: BURIAL OR CREMATION? It leaves in its wake a sense of loss, pain and sorrow. When a loved one dies, we grieve, but when a Christian brother or sister dies, we who remain have grief with hope (1 Thessalonians 4:13-18). The question of cremation or burial is a highly personal decision that a number of theologians say is outside the moral law. It is a personalchoice.
SBC RESOLUTION 9: STATEMENT ON CRITICAL RACE THEORY The most controversial resolution at the 2019 annual meeting of the Southern Baptist Convention was Resolution 9, “On Critical Race Theory and Intersectionality.” While resolutions are not binding, they are important because they send a message to the larger culture, especially the secular media. One of the issues many had with theresolution was that
WHATEVER HAPPENED TO SUNDAY SCHOOL? From the mid-1940s to the mid-1950s, Southern Baptists lived on the cutting edge of church growth, primarily by growing strong and evangelistic Sunday schools. Today we are viewed as a denomination in decline, with decreases in baptisms, worship attendance, church membership and Sunday school attendance spanning at least eight years. If Sunday school was the REMEMBERING CLIFF BARROWS Remembering Cliff Barrows. By Bill Cox. Published on December 1, 2016. Upon Cliff Barrow’s recent death, Billy Graham suggested that his and Cliff’s names should have had a hyphen between them. That’s how much Cliff meant to Dr. Graham and their shared ministry. Leading music was just the tip of the iceberg when it came to Cliff’s STUDY CONFIRMS: MAJORITY OF COLLEGE STUDENTS DROP OUT OF Church pews may be full of teenagers, but a new study says college students might be a much rarer sight on Sunday mornings. Two-thirds (66 percent) of American young adults who attended a Protestant church regularly for at least a year as a teenager say they also dropped out for at least a year between the ages of 18 and 22, according to a new study from LifeWay Research. PERSECUTION PERSISTS AS THE GOSPEL SPREADS Kingdom growth is always met with deep spiritual warfare for Aquila*. For him this includes active and imminent threats to his life. “Please pray for us!” Aquila asked a prayer team in a September 2020 message. He had heard that an extremist group was DR VOLS HELP DURING COVID-19 When help was needed with COVID-19 vaccination clinics and food distribution in the Grand Strand, South Carolina Baptist Convention Disaster Relief volunteers answered the call. Before the vaccine became widely available in drugstores and other places, the McLeod Health System conducted mass vaccine clinics throughout Horry County. Local SCBC DR volunteers aided with traffic flow, BIBLE STUDY FOR SMALL GROUPS: THE DISTURBING FOUNDATION OF The Anglican bishop N.T. Wright is reputed to have said, “Wherever St. Paul went, there was a riot. Wherever I go, they serve tea.” Over the next several months, we are going to look at two books by one of the most important writers in the Bible: the Apostle Paul. The Jewnamed Saul had
BCM DIRECTOR SMITH RECEIVES HONORARY DOCTORATE FOR SERVICE When Scott Smith received an honorary doctorate May 11 from the university where he has ministered for 36 years, the Baptist Collegiate Ministry director joined some pretty elite company. For starters, Smith became the first BCM minister to have such an honor put upon him at a public university. It’s also only the second time 'PONDERING PROVERBS' IS 2-VOLUME STUDY OF BIBLICAL WISDOM Tom Hinkle, pastor of St. John’s Bethel Baptist Church in Moncks Corner, has written a two-volume study guide, “Pondering Proverbs: A Devotional Look at God’s Wisdom” (Courier Publishing, $17.95 per volume). The twin volumes total 752 pages; Vol. 1 covers the first 16 chapters of Proverbs, Vol. 2 chapters 17-31. “Pondering Proverbs”is not intended
MOORE LEAVING ERLC
Russell Moore is leaving the Southern Baptist Convention’s Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission, ending an occasionally controversial eight-year tenure, to take a role with Christianity Today. He will begin a role this summer as public theologian for what the magazine described as “a new public theology project.” In a message posted to his personal blog, COMIC BELIEF: THE ANGELS ARE LAUGHING I travel around the country telling people that their attitude is either their best friend or worst enemy. It isn’t the position in life; it’s the disposition. Now I’m not one of those positive blab-it-and-grab-it guys. I do tell everyone that it’s a fallen world, that Murphy was an optimist, and that there will be MINISTRY POSITIONS ARCHIVES Return Baptist Church in Seneca, SC, is seeking a part-time Children’s Minister for our growing children’s program. Please mail résumé to: Return Baptist Church, 733 Return Church Road, Seneca, SC 29678 or call: Rev. Bobby Holcombe at 864-972-3616. LEGISLATIVE UPDATE: 2021 SC LEGISLATIVE SESSION Thursday, May 13, marked the official end of the 2021 South Carolina Legislative session. State lawmakers will return to Columbia later to wrap up final approval of the budget, deal with any vetoes issued by the Governor, and work through redistricting when the census information is released at the federal level; however, work on bills making their way through the process will be halted until SOUTHERN BAPTIST CONVENTION COMES TO NASHVILLE'S MUSIC This year’s annual meeting of the Southern Baptist Convention will convene June 15 and 16 at the Nashville Music City Center. Generating the most comments has been the election of president. Four candidates will be nominated for president: R. Albert Mohler Jr., president of Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, Louisville, Ky.; Mike Stone,pastor of Emmanuel
BAPTIST COURIERCHURCHESSTATEU.S./WORLDOPINIONCLASSIFIEDSE-EDITION Karyn is the wife of Don Wilton, the longtime pastor of Spartanburg First Baptist Church. “When God called us to full-time Christian ministry, it was Karyn who offered the selling of all our possessions, including all her wedding gifts, so that we could buy plane tickets to the USA. Her entire life has placed the highest premium on servingCLASSIFIEDS ARCHIVE
Part-Time Children’s Minister. Return Baptist Church in Seneca, SC, is seeking a part-time Children’s Minister for our growing children’s program. Please mail résumé to: Return Baptist Church, 733 Return Church Road, Seneca, SC 29678 or call: Rev. Bobby Holcombeat 864-972-3616.
HOW MANY CHURCHES WILL CLOSE? Speculation runs rampant these days as prognosticators and researchers attempt to predict how many churches will be closing within the next 12 to 24 months. Recently, Barna president David Kinnaman indicated that as many as 20 percent of churches could close within the next 18 months. Speaking to the NPR’s “Here and Now” gathering, he THE CHOICE: BURIAL OR CREMATION? It leaves in its wake a sense of loss, pain and sorrow. When a loved one dies, we grieve, but when a Christian brother or sister dies, we who remain have grief with hope (1 Thessalonians 4:13-18). The question of cremation or burial is a highly personal decision that a number of theologians say is outside the moral law. It is a personalchoice.
WHATEVER HAPPENED TO SUNDAY SCHOOL? From the mid-1940s to the mid-1950s, Southern Baptists lived on the cutting edge of church growth, primarily by growing strong and evangelistic Sunday schools. Today we are viewed as a denomination in decline, with decreases in baptisms, worship attendance, church membership and Sunday school attendance spanning at least eight years. If Sunday school was the STUDY CONFIRMS: MAJORITY OF COLLEGE STUDENTS DROP OUT OF Church pews may be full of teenagers, but a new study says college students might be a much rarer sight on Sunday mornings. Two-thirds (66 percent) of American young adults who attended a Protestant church regularly for at least a year as a teenager say they also dropped out for at least a year between the ages of 18 and 22, according to a new study from LifeWay Research. AFTER DEATH, WHAT IS THE ‘INTERMEDIATE STATE’? The intermediate state is a person’s condition between physical death and the resurrection. For the believer, it is a time of conscious bliss in the presence of the Lord; but for the unbeliever, it is a time of conscious torment. According to the New Testament, SCBC PRESIDENT BRYANT SIMS: LIKE FATHER, LIKE SON Bryant Sims, pastor of Mount Moriah Baptist Church in Greenwood and the 2019 president of the South Carolina Baptist Convention, is only the second person in the history of the SCBC to have a dad who also served as president.. His father, the late Horace Sims, who was pastor of Abney Memorial Baptist Church in Greenwood, was elected SCBC president in 1981 and presided over the 1982 annual SUNDAY SCHOOL LESSONS: AUGUST 26, 2012, BIBLE STUDIES FOR In Jeremiah 37:11-17, Jeremiah was beaten and imprisoned after being falsely accused of deserting to the Chaldeans. When he was released, he continued proclaiming God’s message. Today, we face many dangers because we obey God, but we must persevere even in the face of persecution. Jeremiah never wavered, even when he faced death. BILLY GRAHAM'S 'BIG SURPRISE': JOINS SPARTANBURG FIRSTFIRST BAPTIST CHURCH SPARTANBURG SCPASTOR DON WILTON SPARTANBURGDR DON WILTON SPARTANBURG SCFIRST BAPTIST SPARTANBURGPASTOR WILTON SPARTANBURGFIRST BAPTIST OF SPARTANBURG Published on December 31, 2008. When Don Wilton and his oldest son Rob visited Billy Graham at his home in Montreat, N.C., on Christmas Eve, the 90-year-old evangelist mentioned to the senior pastor of First Baptist Church in Spartanburg that he had a “big surprise” for him. Don Wilton and his wife, Karyn, with Billy Graham at his 90th BAPTIST COURIERCHURCHESSTATEU.S./WORLDOPINIONCLASSIFIEDSE-EDITION Karyn is the wife of Don Wilton, the longtime pastor of Spartanburg First Baptist Church. “When God called us to full-time Christian ministry, it was Karyn who offered the selling of all our possessions, including all her wedding gifts, so that we could buy plane tickets to the USA. Her entire life has placed the highest premium on servingCLASSIFIEDS ARCHIVE
Part-Time Children’s Minister. Return Baptist Church in Seneca, SC, is seeking a part-time Children’s Minister for our growing children’s program. Please mail résumé to: Return Baptist Church, 733 Return Church Road, Seneca, SC 29678 or call: Rev. Bobby Holcombeat 864-972-3616.
HOW MANY CHURCHES WILL CLOSE? Speculation runs rampant these days as prognosticators and researchers attempt to predict how many churches will be closing within the next 12 to 24 months. Recently, Barna president David Kinnaman indicated that as many as 20 percent of churches could close within the next 18 months. Speaking to the NPR’s “Here and Now” gathering, he THE CHOICE: BURIAL OR CREMATION? It leaves in its wake a sense of loss, pain and sorrow. When a loved one dies, we grieve, but when a Christian brother or sister dies, we who remain have grief with hope (1 Thessalonians 4:13-18). The question of cremation or burial is a highly personal decision that a number of theologians say is outside the moral law. It is a personalchoice.
WHATEVER HAPPENED TO SUNDAY SCHOOL? From the mid-1940s to the mid-1950s, Southern Baptists lived on the cutting edge of church growth, primarily by growing strong and evangelistic Sunday schools. Today we are viewed as a denomination in decline, with decreases in baptisms, worship attendance, church membership and Sunday school attendance spanning at least eight years. If Sunday school was the STUDY CONFIRMS: MAJORITY OF COLLEGE STUDENTS DROP OUT OF Church pews may be full of teenagers, but a new study says college students might be a much rarer sight on Sunday mornings. Two-thirds (66 percent) of American young adults who attended a Protestant church regularly for at least a year as a teenager say they also dropped out for at least a year between the ages of 18 and 22, according to a new study from LifeWay Research. AFTER DEATH, WHAT IS THE ‘INTERMEDIATE STATE’? The intermediate state is a person’s condition between physical death and the resurrection. For the believer, it is a time of conscious bliss in the presence of the Lord; but for the unbeliever, it is a time of conscious torment. According to the New Testament, SCBC PRESIDENT BRYANT SIMS: LIKE FATHER, LIKE SON Bryant Sims, pastor of Mount Moriah Baptist Church in Greenwood and the 2019 president of the South Carolina Baptist Convention, is only the second person in the history of the SCBC to have a dad who also served as president.. His father, the late Horace Sims, who was pastor of Abney Memorial Baptist Church in Greenwood, was elected SCBC president in 1981 and presided over the 1982 annual SUNDAY SCHOOL LESSONS: AUGUST 26, 2012, BIBLE STUDIES FOR In Jeremiah 37:11-17, Jeremiah was beaten and imprisoned after being falsely accused of deserting to the Chaldeans. When he was released, he continued proclaiming God’s message. Today, we face many dangers because we obey God, but we must persevere even in the face of persecution. Jeremiah never wavered, even when he faced death. BILLY GRAHAM'S 'BIG SURPRISE': JOINS SPARTANBURG FIRSTFIRST BAPTIST CHURCH SPARTANBURG SCPASTOR DON WILTON SPARTANBURGDR DON WILTON SPARTANBURG SCFIRST BAPTIST SPARTANBURGPASTOR WILTON SPARTANBURGFIRST BAPTIST OF SPARTANBURG Published on December 31, 2008. When Don Wilton and his oldest son Rob visited Billy Graham at his home in Montreat, N.C., on Christmas Eve, the 90-year-old evangelist mentioned to the senior pastor of First Baptist Church in Spartanburg that he had a “big surprise” for him. Don Wilton and his wife, Karyn, with Billy Graham at his 90th DR VOLS HELP DURING COVID-19 When help was needed with COVID-19 vaccination clinics and food distribution in the Grand Strand, South Carolina Baptist Convention Disaster Relief volunteers answered the call. Before the vaccine became widely available in drugstores and other places, the McLeod Health System conducted mass vaccine clinics throughout Horry County. Local SCBC DR volunteers aided with traffic flow, BIBLE STUDY FOR SMALL GROUPS: THE DISTURBING FOUNDATION OF The Anglican bishop N.T. Wright is reputed to have said, “Wherever St. Paul went, there was a riot. Wherever I go, they serve tea.” Over the next several months, we are going to look at two books by one of the most important writers in the Bible: the Apostle Paul. The Jewnamed Saul had
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WILTON PENS BOOK ON SPENDING SATURDAYS WITH BILLY GRAHAM Billy Graham’s longtime pastor and friend, Don Wilton, shares personal insights and wisdom gained from his personal times over more than 15 years with America’s pastor in the new book “Saturdays with Billy: My Friendship with Billy Graham” (Thomas Nelson, 193 pages). The senior pastor of nearly 30 years at First Baptist Churchin Spartanburg,
WHOLLY HEALTHY: LOVE HEALS Many years ago, I was reading “In His Image,” a book by Dr. Paul Brand. Brand, some will recall, was a pioneering plastic surgeon doing incredible mission work in India, operating on those afflicted with Hansen’s disease, or leprosy. Prior to that, he had experience operating on pilots who survived crashes during the Battle of BAPTIST COURIERCHURCHESSTATEU.S./WORLDOPINIONCLASSIFIEDSE-EDITION The Baptist Courier is the official Christian news magazine of the churches of the South Carolina Baptist Convention.CLASSIFIEDS ARCHIVE
Port Royal Baptist Church in Port Royal, SC, is hiring a part-time Secretary (20-25 hrs/week). The ideal candidate will have experience in a church setting, be familiar with Microsoft Office, and have experience with customer service. HOW MANY CHURCHES WILL CLOSE? Speculation runs rampant these days as prognosticators and researchers attempt to predict how many churches will be closing within the next 12 to 24 months. Recently, Barna president David Kinnaman indicated that as many as 20 percent of churches could close within the next 18 months. Speaking to the NPR’s “Here and Now” gathering, he THE CHOICE: BURIAL OR CREMATION? In 2016, more people were cremated than buried in the United States. It is a trend that continues to grow, with as much as 78 percent of the population estimated to choose cremation within 20 years, according to the National Funeral Directors Association. Theological questions and differing viewpoints revolve around the cremation versusburial debate.
WHATEVER HAPPENED TO SUNDAY SCHOOL? From the mid-1940s to the mid-1950s, Southern Baptists lived on the cutting edge of church growth, primarily by growing strong and evangelistic Sunday schools. Today we are viewed as a denomination in decline, with decreases in baptisms, worship attendance, church membership and Sunday school attendance spanning at least eight years. If Sunday school was the STUDY CONFIRMS: MAJORITY OF COLLEGE STUDENTS DROP OUT OF Church pews may be full of teenagers, but a new study says college students might be a much rarer sight on Sunday mornings. Two-thirds (66 percent) of American young adults who attended a Protestant church regularly for at least a year as a teenager say they also dropped out for at least a year between the ages of 18 and 22, according to a new study from LifeWay Research. AFTER DEATH, WHAT IS THE ‘INTERMEDIATE STATE’? The intermediate state is a person’s condition between physical death and the resurrection. For the believer, it is a time of conscious bliss in the presence of the Lord; but for the unbeliever, it is a time of conscious torment. According to the New Testament, SCBC PRESIDENT BRYANT SIMS: LIKE FATHER, LIKE SON Bryant Sims, pastor of Mount Moriah Baptist Church in Greenwood and the 2019 president of the South Carolina Baptist Convention, is only the second person in the history of the SCBC to have a dad who also served as president.. His father, the late Horace Sims, who was pastor of Abney Memorial Baptist Church in Greenwood, was elected SCBC president in 1981 and presided over the 1982 annual SUNDAY SCHOOL LESSONS: AUGUST 26, 2012, BIBLE STUDIES FOR Persevere in Obedience. Jeremiah 37:11-17; 38:4-6, 14-18 . Followers of God face many problems today, but we are encouraged to persevere in our service to the Lord by refusing to compromise our godly convictions, no matter what the cost. BILLY GRAHAM'S 'BIG SURPRISE': JOINS SPARTANBURG FIRSTFIRST BAPTIST CHURCH SPARTANBURG SCPASTOR DON WILTON SPARTANBURGDR DON WILTON SPARTANBURG SCFIRST BAPTIST SPARTANBURGPASTOR WILTON SPARTANBURGFIRST BAPTIST OF SPARTANBURG When Don Wilton and his oldest son Rob visited Billy Graham at his home in Montreat, N.C., on Christmas Eve, the 90-year-old evangelist mentioned to the senior pastor of First Baptist Church in Spartanburg that he had a “big surprise” for him. BAPTIST COURIERCHURCHESSTATEU.S./WORLDOPINIONCLASSIFIEDSE-EDITION The Baptist Courier is the official Christian news magazine of the churches of the South Carolina Baptist Convention.CLASSIFIEDS ARCHIVE
Port Royal Baptist Church in Port Royal, SC, is hiring a part-time Secretary (20-25 hrs/week). The ideal candidate will have experience in a church setting, be familiar with Microsoft Office, and have experience with customer service. HOW MANY CHURCHES WILL CLOSE? Speculation runs rampant these days as prognosticators and researchers attempt to predict how many churches will be closing within the next 12 to 24 months. Recently, Barna president David Kinnaman indicated that as many as 20 percent of churches could close within the next 18 months. Speaking to the NPR’s “Here and Now” gathering, he THE CHOICE: BURIAL OR CREMATION? In 2016, more people were cremated than buried in the United States. It is a trend that continues to grow, with as much as 78 percent of the population estimated to choose cremation within 20 years, according to the National Funeral Directors Association. Theological questions and differing viewpoints revolve around the cremation versusburial debate.
WHATEVER HAPPENED TO SUNDAY SCHOOL? From the mid-1940s to the mid-1950s, Southern Baptists lived on the cutting edge of church growth, primarily by growing strong and evangelistic Sunday schools. Today we are viewed as a denomination in decline, with decreases in baptisms, worship attendance, church membership and Sunday school attendance spanning at least eight years. If Sunday school was the STUDY CONFIRMS: MAJORITY OF COLLEGE STUDENTS DROP OUT OF Church pews may be full of teenagers, but a new study says college students might be a much rarer sight on Sunday mornings. Two-thirds (66 percent) of American young adults who attended a Protestant church regularly for at least a year as a teenager say they also dropped out for at least a year between the ages of 18 and 22, according to a new study from LifeWay Research. AFTER DEATH, WHAT IS THE ‘INTERMEDIATE STATE’? The intermediate state is a person’s condition between physical death and the resurrection. For the believer, it is a time of conscious bliss in the presence of the Lord; but for the unbeliever, it is a time of conscious torment. According to the New Testament, SCBC PRESIDENT BRYANT SIMS: LIKE FATHER, LIKE SON Bryant Sims, pastor of Mount Moriah Baptist Church in Greenwood and the 2019 president of the South Carolina Baptist Convention, is only the second person in the history of the SCBC to have a dad who also served as president.. His father, the late Horace Sims, who was pastor of Abney Memorial Baptist Church in Greenwood, was elected SCBC president in 1981 and presided over the 1982 annual SUNDAY SCHOOL LESSONS: AUGUST 26, 2012, BIBLE STUDIES FOR Persevere in Obedience. Jeremiah 37:11-17; 38:4-6, 14-18 . Followers of God face many problems today, but we are encouraged to persevere in our service to the Lord by refusing to compromise our godly convictions, no matter what the cost. BILLY GRAHAM'S 'BIG SURPRISE': JOINS SPARTANBURG FIRSTFIRST BAPTIST CHURCH SPARTANBURG SCPASTOR DON WILTON SPARTANBURGDR DON WILTON SPARTANBURG SCFIRST BAPTIST SPARTANBURGPASTOR WILTON SPARTANBURGFIRST BAPTIST OF SPARTANBURG When Don Wilton and his oldest son Rob visited Billy Graham at his home in Montreat, N.C., on Christmas Eve, the 90-year-old evangelist mentioned to the senior pastor of First Baptist Church in Spartanburg that he had a “big surprise” for him. BIBLE STUDY FOR SMALL GROUPS: THE DISTURBING FOUNDATION OF The Anglican bishop N.T. Wright is reputed to have said, “Wherever St. Paul went, there was a riot. Wherever I go, they serve tea.” Over the next several months, we are going to look at two books by one of the most important writers in the Bible: the Apostle Paul. The Jewnamed Saul had
LEGISLATIVE UPDATE: 2021 SC LEGISLATIVE SESSION Thursday, May 13, marked the official end of the 2021 South Carolina Legislative session. State lawmakers will return to Columbia later to wrap up final approval of the budget, deal with any vetoes issued by the Governor, and work through redistricting when the census information is released at the federal level; however, work on bills making their way through the process will be halted untilHOME BASE MARRIAGE
Phone: (864) 232-8736 Toll-free: (888) 667-4693 Fax: (864) 232-8488 100 Manly St. Greenville, SC 29601 PRESIDENT'S PERSPECTIVE: A QUEEN AND GOD'S FAITHFULNESS “The name of the only Queen in Israel’s history.” A nice piece of Bible trivia that would make a great Bible Jeopardy clue. But more than trivia, the events surrounding her reign are a powerful story of God’s providence, faithfulness, and our response. It was NAMB REQUESTS SBC COLLEGE MINISTRY ASSIGNMENT TRANSFER During their spring meeting, trustees of the North American Mission Board passed a resolution formally requesting that the SBC’s collegiate ministry assignment be entrusted to the organization. The request was made as a result of changes, proposed earlier this year, to LifeWay Christian Resources’ ministry assignments. At the February 2021 meeting of the SBC Executive OUTSIDE THE WALLS: DEVELOPING DISCIPLES Graduation Day! I remember it vividly. It was the culmination of months of anticipation and preparation. I had listened to the instruction of my teacher and thought I was ready to tackle the years ahead. When the day arrived, a flood of anxiety came over me and I didn’t know if I could go through SOUTHERN BAPTIST CONVENTION COMES TO NASHVILLE'S MUSIC This year’s annual meeting of the Southern Baptist Convention will convene June 15 and 16 at the Nashville Music City Center. Generating the most comments has been the election of president. Four candidates will be nominated for president: R. Albert Mohler Jr., president of Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, Louisville, Ky.; Mike Stone,pastor of Emmanuel
WHOLLY HEALTHY: LOVE HEALS Many years ago, I was reading “In His Image,” a book by Dr. Paul Brand. Brand, some will recall, was a pioneering plastic surgeon doing incredible mission work in India, operating on those afflicted with Hansen’s disease, or leprosy. Prior to that, he had experience operating on pilots who survived crashes during the Battle of WILTON PENS BOOK ON SPENDING SATURDAYS WITH BILLY GRAHAM Billy Graham’s longtime pastor and friend, Don Wilton, shares personal insights and wisdom gained from his personal times over more than 15 years with America’s pastor in the new book “Saturdays with Billy: My Friendship with Billy Graham” (Thomas Nelson, 193 pages). The senior pastor of nearly 30 years at First Baptist Churchin Spartanburg,
SUE HARMON, AUTHOR AT BAPTIST COURIER When help was needed with COVID-19 vaccination clinics and food distribution in the Grand Strand, South Carolina Baptist Convention Disaster Relief volunteers answered the call. BAPTIST COURIERCHURCHESSTATEU.S./WORLDOPINIONCLASSIFIEDSE-EDITION The Baptist Courier is the official Christian news magazine of the churches of the South Carolina Baptist Convention.CLASSIFIEDS ARCHIVE
Port Royal Baptist Church in Port Royal, SC, is hiring a part-time Secretary (20-25 hrs/week). The ideal candidate will have experience in a church setting, be familiar with Microsoft Office, and have experience with customer service. HOW MANY CHURCHES WILL CLOSE? Speculation runs rampant these days as prognosticators and researchers attempt to predict how many churches will be closing within the next 12 to 24 months. Recently, Barna president David Kinnaman indicated that as many as 20 percent of churches could close within the next 18 months. Speaking to the NPR’s “Here and Now” gathering, he THE CHOICE: BURIAL OR CREMATION? In 2016, more people were cremated than buried in the United States. It is a trend that continues to grow, with as much as 78 percent of the population estimated to choose cremation within 20 years, according to the National Funeral Directors Association. Theological questions and differing viewpoints revolve around the cremation versusburial debate.
WHATEVER HAPPENED TO SUNDAY SCHOOL? From the mid-1940s to the mid-1950s, Southern Baptists lived on the cutting edge of church growth, primarily by growing strong and evangelistic Sunday schools. Today we are viewed as a denomination in decline, with decreases in baptisms, worship attendance, church membership and Sunday school attendance spanning at least eight years. If Sunday school was the STUDY CONFIRMS: MAJORITY OF COLLEGE STUDENTS DROP OUT OF Church pews may be full of teenagers, but a new study says college students might be a much rarer sight on Sunday mornings. Two-thirds (66 percent) of American young adults who attended a Protestant church regularly for at least a year as a teenager say they also dropped out for at least a year between the ages of 18 and 22, according to a new study from LifeWay Research. AFTER DEATH, WHAT IS THE ‘INTERMEDIATE STATE’? The intermediate state is a person’s condition between physical death and the resurrection. For the believer, it is a time of conscious bliss in the presence of the Lord; but for the unbeliever, it is a time of conscious torment. According to the New Testament, SCBC PRESIDENT BRYANT SIMS: LIKE FATHER, LIKE SON Bryant Sims, pastor of Mount Moriah Baptist Church in Greenwood and the 2019 president of the South Carolina Baptist Convention, is only the second person in the history of the SCBC to have a dad who also served as president.. His father, the late Horace Sims, who was pastor of Abney Memorial Baptist Church in Greenwood, was elected SCBC president in 1981 and presided over the 1982 annual SUNDAY SCHOOL LESSONS: AUGUST 26, 2012, BIBLE STUDIES FOR Persevere in Obedience. Jeremiah 37:11-17; 38:4-6, 14-18 . Followers of God face many problems today, but we are encouraged to persevere in our service to the Lord by refusing to compromise our godly convictions, no matter what the cost. BILLY GRAHAM'S 'BIG SURPRISE': JOINS SPARTANBURG FIRSTFIRST BAPTIST CHURCH SPARTANBURG SCPASTOR DON WILTON SPARTANBURGDR DON WILTON SPARTANBURG SCFIRST BAPTIST SPARTANBURGPASTOR WILTON SPARTANBURGFIRST BAPTIST OF SPARTANBURG When Don Wilton and his oldest son Rob visited Billy Graham at his home in Montreat, N.C., on Christmas Eve, the 90-year-old evangelist mentioned to the senior pastor of First Baptist Church in Spartanburg that he had a “big surprise” for him. BAPTIST COURIERCHURCHESSTATEU.S./WORLDOPINIONCLASSIFIEDSE-EDITION The Baptist Courier is the official Christian news magazine of the churches of the South Carolina Baptist Convention.CLASSIFIEDS ARCHIVE
Port Royal Baptist Church in Port Royal, SC, is hiring a part-time Secretary (20-25 hrs/week). The ideal candidate will have experience in a church setting, be familiar with Microsoft Office, and have experience with customer service. HOW MANY CHURCHES WILL CLOSE? Speculation runs rampant these days as prognosticators and researchers attempt to predict how many churches will be closing within the next 12 to 24 months. Recently, Barna president David Kinnaman indicated that as many as 20 percent of churches could close within the next 18 months. Speaking to the NPR’s “Here and Now” gathering, he THE CHOICE: BURIAL OR CREMATION? In 2016, more people were cremated than buried in the United States. It is a trend that continues to grow, with as much as 78 percent of the population estimated to choose cremation within 20 years, according to the National Funeral Directors Association. Theological questions and differing viewpoints revolve around the cremation versusburial debate.
WHATEVER HAPPENED TO SUNDAY SCHOOL? From the mid-1940s to the mid-1950s, Southern Baptists lived on the cutting edge of church growth, primarily by growing strong and evangelistic Sunday schools. Today we are viewed as a denomination in decline, with decreases in baptisms, worship attendance, church membership and Sunday school attendance spanning at least eight years. If Sunday school was the STUDY CONFIRMS: MAJORITY OF COLLEGE STUDENTS DROP OUT OF Church pews may be full of teenagers, but a new study says college students might be a much rarer sight on Sunday mornings. Two-thirds (66 percent) of American young adults who attended a Protestant church regularly for at least a year as a teenager say they also dropped out for at least a year between the ages of 18 and 22, according to a new study from LifeWay Research. AFTER DEATH, WHAT IS THE ‘INTERMEDIATE STATE’? The intermediate state is a person’s condition between physical death and the resurrection. For the believer, it is a time of conscious bliss in the presence of the Lord; but for the unbeliever, it is a time of conscious torment. According to the New Testament, SCBC PRESIDENT BRYANT SIMS: LIKE FATHER, LIKE SON Bryant Sims, pastor of Mount Moriah Baptist Church in Greenwood and the 2019 president of the South Carolina Baptist Convention, is only the second person in the history of the SCBC to have a dad who also served as president.. His father, the late Horace Sims, who was pastor of Abney Memorial Baptist Church in Greenwood, was elected SCBC president in 1981 and presided over the 1982 annual SUNDAY SCHOOL LESSONS: AUGUST 26, 2012, BIBLE STUDIES FOR Persevere in Obedience. Jeremiah 37:11-17; 38:4-6, 14-18 . Followers of God face many problems today, but we are encouraged to persevere in our service to the Lord by refusing to compromise our godly convictions, no matter what the cost. BILLY GRAHAM'S 'BIG SURPRISE': JOINS SPARTANBURG FIRSTFIRST BAPTIST CHURCH SPARTANBURG SCPASTOR DON WILTON SPARTANBURGDR DON WILTON SPARTANBURG SCFIRST BAPTIST SPARTANBURGPASTOR WILTON SPARTANBURGFIRST BAPTIST OF SPARTANBURG When Don Wilton and his oldest son Rob visited Billy Graham at his home in Montreat, N.C., on Christmas Eve, the 90-year-old evangelist mentioned to the senior pastor of First Baptist Church in Spartanburg that he had a “big surprise” for him. BIBLE STUDY FOR SMALL GROUPS: THE DISTURBING FOUNDATION OF The Anglican bishop N.T. Wright is reputed to have said, “Wherever St. Paul went, there was a riot. Wherever I go, they serve tea.” Over the next several months, we are going to look at two books by one of the most important writers in the Bible: the Apostle Paul. The Jewnamed Saul had
LEGISLATIVE UPDATE: 2021 SC LEGISLATIVE SESSION Thursday, May 13, marked the official end of the 2021 South Carolina Legislative session. State lawmakers will return to Columbia later to wrap up final approval of the budget, deal with any vetoes issued by the Governor, and work through redistricting when the census information is released at the federal level; however, work on bills making their way through the process will be halted untilHOME BASE MARRIAGE
Phone: (864) 232-8736 Toll-free: (888) 667-4693 Fax: (864) 232-8488 100 Manly St. Greenville, SC 29601 PRESIDENT'S PERSPECTIVE: A QUEEN AND GOD'S FAITHFULNESS “The name of the only Queen in Israel’s history.” A nice piece of Bible trivia that would make a great Bible Jeopardy clue. But more than trivia, the events surrounding her reign are a powerful story of God’s providence, faithfulness, and our response. It was NAMB REQUESTS SBC COLLEGE MINISTRY ASSIGNMENT TRANSFER During their spring meeting, trustees of the North American Mission Board passed a resolution formally requesting that the SBC’s collegiate ministry assignment be entrusted to the organization. The request was made as a result of changes, proposed earlier this year, to LifeWay Christian Resources’ ministry assignments. At the February 2021 meeting of the SBC Executive OUTSIDE THE WALLS: DEVELOPING DISCIPLES Graduation Day! I remember it vividly. It was the culmination of months of anticipation and preparation. I had listened to the instruction of my teacher and thought I was ready to tackle the years ahead. When the day arrived, a flood of anxiety came over me and I didn’t know if I could go through SOUTHERN BAPTIST CONVENTION COMES TO NASHVILLE'S MUSIC This year’s annual meeting of the Southern Baptist Convention will convene June 15 and 16 at the Nashville Music City Center. Generating the most comments has been the election of president. Four candidates will be nominated for president: R. Albert Mohler Jr., president of Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, Louisville, Ky.; Mike Stone,pastor of Emmanuel
WHOLLY HEALTHY: LOVE HEALS Many years ago, I was reading “In His Image,” a book by Dr. Paul Brand. Brand, some will recall, was a pioneering plastic surgeon doing incredible mission work in India, operating on those afflicted with Hansen’s disease, or leprosy. Prior to that, he had experience operating on pilots who survived crashes during the Battle of WILTON PENS BOOK ON SPENDING SATURDAYS WITH BILLY GRAHAM Billy Graham’s longtime pastor and friend, Don Wilton, shares personal insights and wisdom gained from his personal times over more than 15 years with America’s pastor in the new book “Saturdays with Billy: My Friendship with Billy Graham” (Thomas Nelson, 193 pages). The senior pastor of nearly 30 years at First Baptist Churchin Spartanburg,
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Southern Baptist leaders have published a statement grieving the recent death of George Floyd and calling for the end of "racial inequity in the distribution of justice in our country." The statement, co-authored by SBC president J.D. Greear and New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary president Jamie Dew was unanimously signed by all SBC officers, entity heads and state convention executive directors. Statement on the death of George Floyd As a convention of churches committed to the equality and dignity of all people, Southern Baptists grieve the death of George Floyd, who was killed May 25, 2020, in Minneapolis, Minn. While all must grieve, we understand that in the hearts of our fellow citizens of color, incidents like... Continue reading » CHARLESTON CHURCHES COLLABORATING TO BRING ALTERNATIVE VBS TO KIDS’HOMES
With social-distancing restrictions still being implemented as COVID-19 lingers into the summer months, churches are having to explore options for holding Vacation Bible Schools. Several Charleston children’s ministers have found a unique... Continue reading » SCBMA, CONNIE MAXWELL RESPONDING TO CHALLENGES OF KEEPING SENIOR ADULTS, CHILDREN SAFE South Carolina Baptists’ two benevolent ministries, the Ministries of Aging and Connie Maxwell Children’s Home, are being diligent in making sure the vulnerable populations of elderly and children in their care stay well during the coronavirus... Continue reading »BAPTIST PRESS
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