Baptist Courier

Jared Thomas and his wife, Lindsay, were happily serving at Christ Fellowship Cherrydale (CFC) in Greenville. They had a good friend group, and the church provided activities for their children. One Sunday, their pastor, Matt Rogers, announced that CFC would be pursuing a church plant in Blue Ridge within the next year. So, Thomas and his wife left what was comfortable and jo...

(Editors’ note: This article was originally published at The Pillar Network.)

The 6’7” 315-pound high school senior and college football prospect, Kevin Wiggins, stared at me fro...

Capping a 16-year process, the International Mission Board will begin receiving 51 percent of national Cooperative Program receipts annually in the 2026–2027 fiscal year, messengers to the 2026 SBC Annual Meeting in Orlando voted.

Messengers rejected a proposed amendment to the Cooperative Program budget for an $8 million priority allocation to IMB, brought to the floo...

In recent months, I had the privilege of reading through 1 and 2 Samuel. We (at least most Christians I know) don’t usually spend much time in the Old Testament compared to the New Testament. When we do, it’s often in the Psalms (prayers to God that involve the entire human emotional spectrum) or...

“If you took all the people on our planet with disabilities and added them together, you would have the third largest country in the world, just behind India and China,” asserted Tom Stolle, executive director of the Baptist Convention of Maryland/Delaware.

“It is quite possible that individuals affected by disabilities are the largest lost people group on the planet,”...