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Mike Wilson: Hooked on camp ministry

Mike Wilson, executive director of Latham Springs Camp and Retreat Center, shares his background and thoughts on camp ministry.

12/11/2018 - By Staff / Baptist Standard

Income and education affect church shopping

Highly educated and affluent Americans are more likely than others to search for a new church—and chances are good they will do their homework before joining a different congregation, according to findings from Pew Research Center.

12/10/2018 - By Ken Camp / Managing Editor

Mudding and drinking truck thrives on new path

A couple of years ago, Terry Billings saw his old truck sitting in the field, weeds growing up through it. Then he heard God’s instruction—to take that old truck and make something new out of it.

12/10/2018 - By Grace Thornton / Baptist Press

Editorial: Life is like a flag at half-staff

Life is like a flag at half-staff. Half-staff is a place of mourning, not a place of rest. From half-staff, the flag can go either up or down. Up is triumph. Down is a place of honor after a day well-served. Up is where we all want to be. Down at least means we’re tucked away safely out of the weather. Isn’t life like that?

12/05/2018 - By Eric Black / Editor

Lucien Coleman: A Christmas Sermon | Baptists Preaching

In this week’s Baptists Preaching, Lucien Coleman, a longtime seminary professor and minister in Kentucky and later in Texas, exposits on how the Word, who is Jesus, is qualitatively different from everything else a person can proclaim. (John 1:1-18)

12/05/2018 - By Staff / Baptist Standard

Voices: Grief and a pastor go for a swim

As pastors, we are not immune to the sting of sorrow, even when we put on our best acting faces. I’ve had to speak joyful words of hope at a funeral, trying to help others smile about a life wonderfully lived, while stifling my own grief quietly and deep inside like a geyser wanting to explode.

12/05/2018 - By Jonathan Smith

Voices: My father’s gift—a practicum for ministry

Kristen Padilla grew up the daughter of a pastor and shares a touching story about her father’s influence on her and her ministry.

12/05/2018 - By Kristen Padilla

Voices: Thinking through Christmas in occupied France

This season, as we think about God becoming human, let us think about what the sheer fact of Christ’s existence means for us.

12/04/2018 - By Jake Raabe

Paul Sadler: Being a channel of God’s grace to all people

From deep in the heart of one Texan, Paul Sadler, director of church and denominational relations at Wayland Baptist University, shares his background and thoughts on leadership among Texas Baptists.

12/04/2018 - By Staff / Baptist Standard

TBM disaster relief continues in northwest Florida

Nearly two months after Hurricane Michael made landfall, Texas Baptist Men chainsaw crews, emergency food-service workers, heavy equipment operators and other volunteers continue to offer disaster relief in the Florida Panhandle.

12/04/2018 - By Ken Camp / Managing Editor

Uzbekistan military reportedly raids Baptist church

Military personnel and plainclothes police raided and ransacked an unregistered Baptist church in Uzbekistan’s capital city during Sunday worship Nov. 25, a Norway-based news service reported.

12/04/2018 - By Ken Camp / Managing Editor

Daniel Camp: Kingdom Hospitality | Baptists Preaching

In this week’s Baptists Preaching, Daniel Camp, pastor of Shiloh Baptist Church in Crawford, considers Jesus’ instructions on inviting guests to a dinner party to illuminate the difference between charity and hospitality. (Luke 14:12-14)

11/28/2018 - By Staff / Baptist Standard