Category Archives: Ministry

North American Missions

April is the month in which we focus on the Annie Armstrong Easter Offering this year, an offering that benefits the North American Mission Board of our Southern Baptist Convention. The offering doesn’t just help to support professional missionaries working … Continue reading

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A Baptist in a Clerical Collar

Those careers that are part of what may broadly be construed as the “service sector” often involve some means of identification.  Policemen sport badges, salesclerks wear tee-shirts of a particular color, waiters don aprons, and nurses wear scrubs.  The idea is … Continue reading

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Why Sunday and not the Sabbath?

The Church is an institution. And like all institutions it has a certain way of doing things. For those who have attended a church for any length of time, many of its idiosyncrasies fade from awareness, hiding in plain sight. … Continue reading

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