Telling the Story of Tennessee Baptists Since 1835
November 21, 2017
By Lonnie Wilkey Editor, Baptist and Reflector Another Summit has come and gone. Tennessee Baptists met last week at First Baptist Church, Hendersonville, to worship, fellowship, and conduct business. They did all three well. The convention started off on the right foot with the Sunday night service at First Baptist and an All Nations celebration […]
November 20, 2017
By Randy C. Davis TBMB President & Executive Director On Feb. 18, 1952, the S.S. Pendleton was caught in a brutal winter storm generating 60-foot waves that slammed into the 500-foot tanker. The seas became so intense that it split the ship in two. The captain and six others were in the forward part of […]
November 16, 2017
Baptist Press NASHVILLE (BP) — The first time I ever visited an African community devastated by HIV/AIDS, I vividly remember meeting people whose lives had been changed forever. I met mothers living with AIDS and trying to survive long enough to see their children reach adulthood, able to care for themselves. I visited several homes […]
November 13, 2017
By Larry Robertson Pastor, Hilldale Baptist Church, Clarksville “And he said to them, ‘Come away by yourselves to a desolate place and rest a while.’ For many were coming and going, and they had no leisure even to eat” (Mark 6:31). A lady I once pastored in a church in a place in “a galaxy […]
November 10, 2017
By Paul Gunn Pastor, Tusculum Hills Baptist Church, Nashville When Baptist and Reflector Editor Lonnie Wilkey asked me to write an article about Veterans Day (Nov. 11), I immediately thought of three things all veterans have in common. Every veteran has a story or many stories. The reasons vary as to why some talk non-stop […]
November 9, 2017
By Lonnie Wilkey Editor, Baptist and Reflector I look at our nation today and just shake my head. We are living in a day when we are more interested in revising or even, in some cases, eliminating history than we are in learning from it. Sir Winston Churchill once said, “Those who fail to learn […]
November 7, 2017
By Randy C. Davis TBMB President & Executive Director I loved family reunions when I was growing up. Those reunions always landed on or near my Grandpa Davis’ birthday. My Grandpa Davis was my hero. He and Granny Davis were faithful saints and I loved them dearly. Granny Davis was the greatest prayer warrior I’ve […]
November 6, 2017
By Lonnie Wilkey Editor, Baptist and Reflector On Sunday, Nov. 5, a Texas man entered First Baptist Church, Sutherland Springs, Texas (about 35 miles southeast of San Antonio), and killed 26 innocent people and wounded about 20 others. This occurred roughly five weeks after a man killed a woman in an Antioch, Tenn., church parking lot […]
October 31, 2017
Lonnie Wilkey, Editor, Baptist and Reflector I have a confession to make after more than 45 years. I actually went “trick or treating” on Halloween. Didn’t seem so bad back then, but listen to some folks today and I am almost convinced that I committed a major sin because I celebrated a pagan holiday associated […]
October 31, 2017
By Carolyn Tomlin While watching a group of children in a Bible drill from Woodland Baptist Church in Haywood County, I was amazed at how fast they could locate the books of the Old and New Testaments as well as specific verses. Once found, they could recite from memory the reference.
October 30, 2017
By Lonnie Wilkey Editor, Baptist and Reflector I am extremely proud to be a Tennessean today. I held my breath on Saturday, Oct. 28, to see what would happen at planned white supremacist rallies that were scheduled to be held in Shelbyville and Murfreesboro. By most accounts, nothing really happened. Tennesseans let it be made […]
October 30, 2017
By Ray Van Neste On Oct. 31, 1517, Martin Luther posted 95 theses for academic debate on the church door in Wittenberg, Germany. While posting topics for debate in this way was a very common act at the time, this time it reverberated throughout Europe and launched the Protestant Reformation. This month we mark the […]