CLEVELAND, Ga. (BP) – One of my top ten life-changing books is Andrew Murray’s classic "With Christ in the School of Prayer." First published in 1885, it has been continuously in print for the past 136 years. Murray was a Dutch Reformed pastor in South Africa whose preaching and writing was a catalyst for revival in his own country in the 1860s and the great revival that began in Wales in 1904 and reverberated throughout England and the United States.

FORT WORTH, Texas (BP) -- I have moved to Fort Worth, Texas, to begin a new season of ministry as professor of preaching and rhetoric at Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary. This move is not just a change of ministry or a change of city; it is a change in my church affiliation. My wife Pat and I have been received as members of Sherwood Baptist Church in Albany, Ga., and I will be teaching in a seminary ...

Barry McCarty, the Southern Baptist Convention’s longtime parliamentarian, shares why he became a Southern Baptist.