First Person

Counselors across the United States are breathing a collective sigh of relief following the Supreme Court’s decision in Chiles v. Salazar last month.

I am thankful and generally enthusiastic about where we are in the SBC. I am just one man, and I don’t claim to speak for anyone else. But here are 10 reasons I am optimistic:

I got a message from one of my pastor friends recently. His church has partnered with their local public school for years. Lately they have been approached by a church from one of the mainline denominations wanting to come alongside them in ministry there.

This season, it may look like your mission field is at the church, school, baseball field, basketball court, recital, graduations, college visits, wedding showers, or maybe all those places simultaneously.

What does the pace of your day usually look like? Sane? Sensible? Sustainable? Or are you rushing through life at a pace that will inevitably lead to a crash?

What is the value of an image? What if that image showed what was previously unimaginable: human life growing inside the womb?

When you commit to the missionary life, you are committing to the conviction that heaven — not any particular place on earth — is your home.

At the time of her death in 1928, Lilias Trotter is considered to be not only one of the most beloved and respected missionaries of her day but “a world-wide spiritual force.” For she has dared to live a hidden life and to live it with all her heart.   

A shocking act on a dark New York highway once left a nation demanding justice, but what followed told a far deeper story about the power of love and forgiveness.

Amid immigration debates, one principle should rise above politics: children waiting for permanent, loving families must never become collateral damage of policy decisions.