Baptist Courier

Editor’s Note: Wayne Bray, pastor of First Baptist Simpsonville/Upstate Church in South Carolina, was elected president of the 2027 SBC Pastors’ Conference in Indianapolis.

Pastors should be thinking about how God might use their churches and the Southern Baptist Convention not only now but 100 years from now, Jimmy Scroggins said at the SBC Pastors’ Conferenc...

(Editors’ note: this article was adapted from the commencement address at Bethlehem College and Seminary, originally published at Desiring God)

Fifty-five years ago this month, I was sitting in a seminary commencement service like this on...

Battling Unbelief: Defeating Sin with Superior Pleasure (Crossway, 2026) by John Piper

No one sins out of duty. We sin because it offers some promise of happiness. That promise enslaves us until we believe that God is more desirable than life itself (Ps. 63:3). Only the power of God’s superior promises in the gospel can emancipate our hearts...

Carolyn Fountain was elected the 25th president of Woman’s Missionary Union during the WMU Missions Celebration and Annual Meeting June 7 in Orlando, Fla. She is the first African American woman to serve in this role.

Held in the Valencia Ballroom at the Orange County Convention Center, this year’s WMU Missions Celebration also hosted theme interpretations, missions te...

Twenty-eight years ago, members from First Baptist Church in Kissimmee began to pray that the church might someday own the field that adjoined their church property. As part of the events surrounding Crossover from June 1 to June 6, the church hosted its first outreach efforts on the land they recently acquired.

An aerial view of First Baptist Church of Kissi...