A recent report from Baptist Press detailed the 2018 Annual Church Profile (ACP) for Southern Baptist Churches. The ACP provides annual numbers in a variety…
Category: Church Life
Below are comments I made to Graefenburg Baptist Church during worship on January 27, 2019. I am grateful for the help of the Ethics and…
I like this picture. This is my friend and colleague Jay Padgett and this is us doing what we do quite often – visiting a…
People Over Programs. Eternal Over Temporal. The idea is simple. An overemphasis on programming and its accompanying time for administration tends to make people busier,…
The Council on Biblical Manhood and Womanhood (CBMW) released a statement this past Tuesday consisting of fourteen articles concerning human sexuality. Unsurprisingly, the statement was…
President Trump made a promise at the 2017 National Prayer Breakfast to repeal the law that prohibits political endorsements from the pulpit. The law is…
The seasons of Advent and Christmas are special times for Christian churches, and at Graefenburg Baptist Church it really is the most wonderful time of…
I like making resolutions. I have written before on the benefit of creating a list of goals for the new year and we are in…
The 2016 calendar is inching closer to February 10 which means a variety of blog articles, Facebook status updates, and Twitter feeds will be providing…
This morning I woke up to an email from our church financial secretary. She was updating me and a few others on the totals for…