Telling the Story of Tennessee Baptists Since 1835
May 28, 2020
Editor’s note: This guest column replaces the Clarity column normally written by Randy C. Davis, president and executive director of the Tennessee Baptist Mission Board. Davis expressed his gratitude for the generosity of Tennessee Baptists: “Thank you for your financial generosity experienced by missions and ministries of giving through the Cooperative Program and Golden Offering […]
May 27, 2020
By Mike Dawson Pastor Emeritus, First Baptist Church, Columbia COVID-19: we know that “COVID” is the five-letter acronym for “Corona Virus Disease” and that the number 19 is for the year 2019 (since the disease originated in December, 2019 in Wuhan, China). And we’re well aware that it spread to become a global pandemic in […]
May 24, 2020
By Lonnie Wilkey Editor, Baptist and Reflector On Monday, May 25, many Americans across the nation have a paid holiday. Many will spend the day on golf courses, lakes, hiking trails, and numerous other places enjoying barbecue, burgers, hot dogs and all the trimmings. I wonder, however, how many people actually know why they have […]
May 21, 2020
By Cody Glen Barnhart Director of music and media, First Baptist Church, Alcoa Recently, Seacoast Church announced that former Southern Baptist pastor Darrin Patrick passed away from what “appears to be a self-inflicted gunshot wound.” The news sent shockwaves through social media. Patrick’s passing is a devastating blow. We seem to have lost another one […]
May 19, 2020
By Bruce Chesser President, Tennessee Baptist Convention Most of us are trying to determine the best course of action in reengaging in on campus worship. Notice I did not say “reopening.” We haven’t been closed. Almost all of us have continued to lead our people in Sunday worship, Wednesday night Bible studies, and we have […]
May 18, 2020
By Scott C. Shepherd Tennessee Baptist Mission Board music and worship specialist In the coming weeks and months, churches across Tennessee will make the decision to gather again for worship. These services — though COVID-19 restrictions have been reduced — will not be a return to “worship as usual.” Here are 15 worship related helps […]
May 15, 2020
By Mark Proctor Associate administrator, Tennessee Baptist Mission Board God sings, says the Hebrew prophet Zephaniah, when His children come home. Your Tennessee Baptist Mission Board Conference Center staffs at Carson Springs and Linden Valley have heard those joyful songs thousands of times. But this year those songs will go largely unheard on the English […]
May 15, 2020
By Jay Barbier Youth Specialist, Tennessee Baptist Mission Board The Great Commission has given followers of Jesus an adventure to live by. Jesus commanded His disciples to make disciples as they go! The question many are facing today is how can we do this now? We need to take a serious look at how we […]
May 14, 2020
By Matt Tullos TBMB Special Assistant to the Executive Director 2020 will be remembered as the Year of the Pandemic. A new normal swept across our country as leaders grappled with circumstances that previously were only portrayed in doomsday novels and disaster movies. We’ve seen the best and worst of humanity. Mass graves, food lines, […]
May 13, 2020
By Lonnie Wilkey Editor, Baptist and Reflector lwilkey@tnbaptist.org “We’ve never done it that way before.” If Southern Baptists had a national motto, it would be that simple sentence. I have attended a Baptist church all of my life — and that now spans 62 years. I have heard that Baptist motto all of my life, […]
May 11, 2020
By Randy C. Davis TBMB President & Executive Director Children have a way of getting to the heart of the matter, don’t they? Their questions come at you unfiltered and often at the most unexpected times. That’s the way my daughters were and that is the way my grandchildren are. Their forthright insight can often […]
May 8, 2020
By Charles Fowler B&R Guest Columnist President, Carson-Newman University When my heart is anxious, my circumstances troubling, and the way forward seems uncertain, the Psalms are a wonderful source for encouragement and instruction. While Psalm 50:15 is not talking directly and specifically about COVID-19, I believe that it provides some principles that do help us […]