What About Giving Warriors?
In his book The Treasure Principle, author Randy Alcorn pointed out something so obvious that I wondered why I had not considered the truth before now. “You have heard about […]
Messengers approve $37.5M budget, celebrate volunteers who are DifferenceMakers
Messengers to the Alabama Baptist State Convention annual meeting at Eastern Shore Baptist Church in Daphne approved a $37.5 million Cooperative Program allocation budget for 2025. The budget is up […]
10 Thoughts About the CP
1. Stays true to the original vision. The Cooperative Program is an agreement among churches, state conventions and the Southern Baptist Convention to cooperate to conduct mission ministries in the […]
Seven Mistakes Ministers Make Concerning Retirement
1. Not using the Church Retirement Plan through GuideStone. GuideStone does a very good job with our money. Their investments are competitive with secular companies. The Church Retirement Plan has […]
The Next Generation
It was a beautiful late spring day in north Alabama, and I was taking my then four-year-old son fishing with me. He and I would go to a farm area […]
Psalm 39:5-6
Indeed, You have made my days as handbreadths, And my age is as nothing before You; Certainly every man at his best state is but vapor. Selah Surely every man […]
We Are the Cooperative Program!
The Cooperative Program (CP) is much more than money or a funding strategy. True, it has been Southern Baptist’s main strategy for nearly 100 years to gather unified funds from […]
Cooperative Program
Major is an 11-year-old boy who listens to the needs of a lost world and begins to despair. “What could I possibly do that would impact a lost world, feed […]
One. More. Time.
“On the line!” Those words struck fear in me when I was in high school playing basketball. The last part of practice – conditioning – always started with those dreaded […]
Rest a While
“Come aside by yourselves to a deserted place and rest a while” –Mark 6:31 (NKJV). There’s a story that’s made the rounds through the years among preachers that goes like this: […]
