Blog Archive

Discipleship

4 Invitations (Part 4): Be With Me

Mark 3:13-14 (ESV) contains the Be With Me invitation: “And he went up on the mountain and called to him those whom he desired, and they came to him. And he appointed twelve

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Collegiate Ministries

Breaking Bread and Fences

“I just didn’t understand it. They had nothing to gain by loving us. But they loved us” (Hayes 78). I recently read the book Glad You’re Here: Two Unlikely Friends Breaking

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Church Revitalization

A Series of Injurious Decisions

On the other end of the phone on this particular day was a state convention leader of a mainline denomination. He was calling to ask if I would speak with

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Collegiate Ministries

HBCU’s on Mission

A very small percentage of Southern Baptist missionaries are African American. In 2020, the Southern Baptist Convention’s International Mission Board (IMB), one of the world’s largest missionary sending agencies, reported

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Church Planting

Looking Beyond VBS

As I traveled throughout Alabama this month, I saw a great number of signs for vacation Bible school.  After a couple of years of covid and adjustments in church outreach

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News

How Do We Respond?

As Alabama Baptists welcome the overturn of Roe v. Wade, let us be good stewards of our influence in responding with grace, civility and concerted prayer for all. What we

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