Accomplished American businessman James Ackerman has put aside his 25-year career in the entertainment and media industry to take over as the next president as the nation's largest prison ministry, the Chuck Colson-founded Prison Fellowship.
While pundits call for political solutions to race relations, several Baptist colleges are enlisting students and partnering ministries to find long-lasting solutions. At Reunion Church in Dallas, as the microphones were passed around the church after the police shootings, people reflected on their ...
Next to the biblical accounts of Jesus, the account of David taking on the Philistine giant Goliath in battle is probably among the best known of Bible stories. Learned by childen in Sunday Schools everywhere, it reminds readers that God uses unexpected heroes, including a shepherd, to lead his ...
Before he met a shepherd boy in battle, the giant Goliath called Gath home. The Philistine city made repeated appearances in the Bible until the time Israel began to lose its independence to the great empires of the Ancient Near East.
Joshua didn't conquer Gezer, but it fell to the Egyptians during the reign of Solomon, who married the pharaoh's daughter. Dr. Eric Mitchell's journal entry explains the importance of this Old Testament city.
Warning America is at the precipice of judgment as was ancient Israel, Mac Brunson, pastor of the historic First Baptist Church in Jacksonville, July 3 in worship introduced a clip of a stirring speech by Rabbi Jonathon Cahn, a Messianic Jew, who described the United States as a place that has ...
Dr. Eric Mitchell's journal of his archaeological research in Cyprus provides insight into the biblical personalities of Paul, Barnabas and John Mark, along with a good dose of history on the expansion of the Christian faith among the Gentiles.
It has been nearly 20 years since the Southern Baptist Convention met in St. Louis for its annual meeting with 25,607 registered messengers in the midst of the Conservative Resurgence. As messengers prepare to meet again, a former SBC executive and a Florida pastor weigh in on what they believe ...
Today, one of Roadside America's popular sights, a larger-than-life bronze statue of world-renown evangelist Billy Graham, was to be dismantled and removed from the corner of Rosa Parks Boulevard and Commerce Street, where it has stood for more than a decade.
Famed comedian works out his road schedule so he can be home in Atlanta every week for a men's Bible study he leads at The Atlanta Mission. He claims God has opened his eyes to the needs of the homeless community, as well as their humanity and charity, because he said "yes" to God when asked to ...