Editor’s note: The following story will be updated with on-site coverage from the Tennessee Baptist Disaster Relief recovery station. McEWEN — Tennessee Baptist Disaster Relief teams are responding to Friday’s deadly explosion at the Accurate Energetic Systems plant, located near McEwen. TBDR sent a mass feeding unit to the area Friday night, and the team began … [Read More...]
Tennessee
COWELL TO BE NOMINATED FOR TBC WTN REGIONAL VP
FRANKLIN — Ben Cowell, pastor of Brownsville Baptist Church in Brownsville, will be nominated as the Tennessee Baptist Convention’s West Tennessee regional vice … [Read More...]
Columnists
PRAYER FOR THE LOST BEGINS WITH THE SPIRIT
Editor’s Note: This column is Part 2 of a three-part series on prayer. Part 1. “Believers Should Answer Call to Intercede for Lost,” appeared in the Sept. 10, … [Read More...]
SBC
CP GIVING 2.19% BELOW BUDGET FOR FISCAL YEAR
NASHVILLE (BP) – Total Cooperative Program giving for the 2024-2025 fiscal year was $186,091,048.26, which is just over 2% below the budget goal of … [Read More...]
SS Lessons
OCT. 12: GOD’S PLANS
Focal Passage: Numbers 22:22-35 In Milan, Tenn., two train tracks run straight across the main highway through town. Multiple times a day, trains stop there, … [Read More...]
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FINDING FIRM FOOTING
Ladies strengthen their walk on Appalachian Trail HOT SPRINGS, N.C. — Five wives trudged the final steps into Hot Springs, physically exhausted but spiritually renewed after three days and 16 miles on the Appalachian Trail. The Sept. 8-10 trek, which … [Read More...]
THE BODY OF CHRIST ON THE APPALACHIAN TRAIL
On a whim, I decided to join a backpacking trip with Tennessee Baptist Mission Board’s Off the Grid ministry. I’d backpacked in Tennessee a couple of times before and liked the challenge of tackling an extensive three-day trek on the Appalachian Trail while … [Read More...]
AMERICANS ARE DIVIDED ON RELIGION IN SCHOOLS
NASHVILLE — U.S. adults are nearly equally divided on how much of a role religion should play in public schools, according to a YouGov poll. A third (34%) say it doesn’t play enough of a role, a quarter (26%) say it’s involved about the right amount, and a … [Read More...]