Erin Roach

HOUSTON (BP) – People are responding to the Gospel in a way Bob Crites has not seen in the nearly 30 years he has been at Sagemont Church. 

GRAND SALINE, Texas (BP) – The man who gave Christian recording artist Chris Tomlin his first opportunity to lead worship at a concert has been called to pastor his first church at age 70. In fact, it’s the church both he and Tomlin grew up in, years apart. 

TIMPSON, Texas (BP) – A squirrel was loose in the building at First Baptist Church in Timpson, so the pastor sent out a notice that he needed a trap to catch it. By the end of the day, a squirrel trap was set and a man he had been praying for was a new brother in Christ.

ABILENE, Texas (BP) -- A couple of years ago, North Park Baptist Church had dwindled to about 30 people on Sundays, mostly senior adults. Now, attendance has doubled, and people in their 30s and 40s have joined.

INDIANAPOLIS (BP) – Preaching from Hebrews 12:1-3, Dean Inserra reminded Southern Baptists of the “great cloud of witnesses” – particularly giants of the faith who have gone before – and exhorted them to run the race focused on Jesus rather than hindered by distractions.

INDIANAPOLIS (BP) – Spiritual resilience in ministry is essential, and women can look to God to provide that resilience, speaker Jacki King said at the Ministers’ Wives Luncheon June 11 at the Indiana Convention Center in Indianapolis.

INDIANAPOLIS (BP) – Faithfulness in prayer, to the next generation, under pressure and to families were among the sermon topics during the SBC Pastors’ Conference June 10 at the Indiana Convention Center in Indianapolis.

INDIANAPOLIS (BP) - D.J. Horton, pastor of the Church at The Mill in Spartanburg, S.C., was elected president of the 2025 SBC Pastors’ Conference on June 10 at the Indiana Convention Center in Indianapolis.

NASHVILLE (BP) – The decades-long increase in the number of religiously unaffiliated Americans in surveys – sometimes called the rise of the “nones” – may be slacking off, according to a recent analysis, but the reasons for that remain unclear.

NASHVILLE (BP) – The genocide that left more than 800,000 Rwandans dead and millions displaced during a 100-day period in 1994 demonstrated the depths of depravity found in hearts not redeemed by Jesus, former missionary Nik Ripken said.