JONESBORO, Ga. – Messengers to the Georgia Baptist Convention’s annual meeting have approved a resolution calling for churches to urge lawmakers to pass a law that would keep biological males from competing in sporting events for females.

JONESBORO, Ga. – Georgia Baptist Convention President Kevin Williams called on church leaders Tuesday to “refocus” on sharing the gospel despite the lingering COVID-19 pandemic or highly publicized denominational disputes.

JONESBORO, Ga. – Kevin Williams will serve a second term as president of the Georgia Baptist Convention, having drawn no opponent for the position at an annual meeting held Monday and Tuesday at First Baptist Church of Jonesboro.

JONESBORO, Ga. – Spending cuts instituted by the Georgia Baptist Mission Board over the past three years have the organization on sound financial footing, the organization’s chief operating officer said Tuesday.

JONESBORO, Ga. – The Baptist Faith and Message 2000 will be part of the Georgia Baptist Convention’s constitution and bylaws after a vote by messengers on Tuesday.

BOONE, N.C. (AP) — Evangelist Franklin Graham successfully underwent a specialized heart surgery on Monday to treat a condition which had developed in recent months, a spokesman said.

JONESBORO, Ga. – Georgia Baptists were challenged in a series of sermons Monday to never lose the wonder of ministry, to walk with God, and to never shrink away from the preaching the gospel regardless of cultural shifts.

JONESBORO, Ga. – The Georgia Baptist Convention’s Executive Committee has voted to create a Special Committee on the Prevention of Sexual Abuse “to make recommendations for developing programs, best practices, and policy guidelines for preventing sexual abuse.”

JONESBORO, Ga. – Steven Greene recalled the dust in the baptistry at Central Baptist Church in Lawrenceville when he arrived as pastor nearly five years ago.

JONESBORO, Ga. – Retirees of the Georgia Baptist Mission Board will continue to receive stipends to help them pay for supplemental insurance plans under an arrangement with the Georgia Baptist Health Care Ministry Foundation.

LOUISVILLE (BP) – The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary filed a petition in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 6th Circuit Friday against the Occupational Safety and Health Administration to block the Biden administration's  enforcement of a mandate requiring employees of private employers be vaccinated against COVID-19.

MCDONOUGH, Ga. (BP) – Christian school planters Tom and Patricia McClure had only served in Hungary nine months when an 18-wheeler slammed into the back of Tom’s van, breaking his neck and leaving him paralyzed from the shoulders down. He lived six months before dying.

My mums didn’t make it.  They were glorious a month ago.  I even took a picture of them there on the porch for Instagram.  Because I love mums, my beloved is faithful to get me assorted colors every fall. But … I neglected them this year.  Once vibrant blooms are now crispy buds.  Previously healthy leaves have turned dark and now droop.  My mums are dried up versions of their former selves. 

VILLA RICA, Ga. – When Pastor Todd Wright arrives at his office each morning, he sees what only God could have built – a megachurch in a rural swath of Carroll County an hour west of Atlanta. Midway Church, with more than 3,000 members, has always had a major gospel impact in Georgia and beyond, baptizing scores of new believers each year and supporting missionaries who are winning souls in Georgia, across the U.S. and around the world.

NASHVILLE (BP) – More U.S. Protestant churches are gathering in person since the COVID-19 pandemic began, and pastors say most churchgoers have returned as well.

WASHINGTON (BP) – The U.S. Supreme Court signaled Monday (Nov. 1) its dissatisfaction with a lower court’s ruling on a state abortion mandate and ordered it to reconsider that decision in light of the justices’ unanimous opinion in support of religious freedom earlier this year.

LONGVIEW, Texas (BP) – There are 41 local governments across the United States that have adopted ordinances banning abortions and declaring themselves Sanctuary Cities for the Unborn since the grassroots movement launched in 2019, movement founder Mark Lee Dickson said.

DULUTH, Ga. – Georgia Baptists have sent more than $30.4 million to the Southern Baptist Convention over the past year to get the gospel to the nations.“This shows just how committed …

JONESBORO, Ga. – Georgia Baptist leaders are expecting one of the largest crowds in recent history at their annual meeting next week.Nearly 1,000 people had preregistered as of Monday for the …

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By Ronnie FloydOn Saturday, September 11, 2021, America will observe the 20th Anniversary of 9/11. On this day, it seemed the world stopped as all eyes and hearts observed the horrific events that …