Bible Study: Are you compassionate?
Annual performance reviews can create both anticipation and anxiety. In most cases, managers have a metric or checklist by which they evaluate a worker’s performance. In some unfortunate cases, an employee has no clue what the criteria will be for the review.
FIRST-PERSON: The platform dilemma – Where does cooperation end and compromise begin?
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.
FIRST-PERSON: The missionary call of motherhood
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.
AI brings speed in publishing, but also higher value to discernment
NASHVILLE (BP) – As artificial intelligence grows in its capabilities, so does the importance of Christians sifting through a growing number of books and other resources that are generated quickly through AI, but bring a host of issues for readers.
First-ever New York apologetics conference addresses hard questions of faith
ALBANY, N.Y. (BP) – Responding to culture’s toughest questions about the faith was the focus of the first-ever apologetics conference presented by the Baptist Convention of New York (BCNY), April 24-25, in Albany. More than 250 attended.
Bible Study: God helps us with every detail of our lives
When life gives you lemons, you make lemonade. That’s the phrase people say when things go wrong in life. We try to make the best of the situation. We try to take life into our own hands. And as Christians, sometimes we forget that God is there to help us, even in the tiny details of our lives.
Doctrinal concerns drive Nicene Creed discussion
NASHVILLE (BP) – A desire to protect Southern Baptist theology is motivating at least one Southern Baptist theologian in Texas and a North Carolina pastor-historian to look to the Nicene Creed to shore up some importance stances, but opinions differ on the best way for Southern Baptists to affirm the ancient creed.
FIRST-PERSON: Jesus’ most difficult command
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.
Bible Study: Christ’s resurrection is true
If Jesus rose from the dead, it was the most sensational event in all of history and a conclusive answer to the most profound questions of our existence. On the other hand, if Christ did not rise from the dead, Christianity is an interesting museum piece and nothing more.
