by Art Werry CLINTON TOWNSHIP, MI – Where has the summer gone? For that matter, where has 2022 gone? And here we are, at the beginning of...

NOTE: The following poem is very long but has short verses. I am recommending it as a sample of the encouragement that God gave His...

by Timothy Cockes LAKE PLACID, NY (BP) – As the areas around Upstate New York prepare to host the Winter World University Games in...

by Tobin Perry ALPHARETTA, GA (BP) – Mickey Caison and his team of South Carolina Baptist Disaster Relief volunteers were exhausted when...

by Stan Parker LANSING, MI – Pastor Stan Parker and Faith Fellowship Baptist Church (FFBC) held their Annual Praise in the Park Block...

by Julie Redmond Donavan In 1974, Tony Lynn heard the gospel from a bivocational pastor at First Baptist Church in Swartz Creek,...

by James R. Ellsworth TECUMSEH, MI – Alaska Mission ministers to many villages in the Nome, Alaska region. One of these villages is...

by Allen Ballard VANDERBILT, MI – In 1867 on a farm in South Africa, 15-year-old Erasmus Jacobs saw a stone glistening in the sun. The...

Bir Bahdur is a simple animal herder. Sometimes he works as a day-laborer. He’s quiet and meek. He’s uneducated and soft-spoken. He...

by Tim Patterson PLYMOUTH, MI – There has been a great deal of talk about overturning Roe vs. Wade in the past few months and the matter...

by Dr. Tony L Lynn PLYMOUTH, MI – My wife’s parents are with the Lord. Jamie’s father went to be with the Lord in 2011, and in 2020,...

by Mike Durbin PLYMOUTH, MI – Drowsy, tired, fatigued, beat, spent, exhausted, depleted. These words describe a continuum of feelings...

by Coye Bouyer LANSING, MI – As a pastor, I have encountered many people and over the years I have learned that people are very different...

by Mick Schatz ROSCOMMON, MI – There are many places in Michigan that one can view the creativity of our almighty God. One of these...

by Don Anderson JACKSON, MI – At almost all of the church growth conferences I ever attended, I was told that a pastor would rarely be...

by Karen Blanchard CLINTON TOWNSHIP, MI – I grew up in Florida and to this day my favorite place is still the beach. Looking out at the...

by Scott Barkley NASHVILLE, TN (BP) – Mark Dance remembers the time he lost focus – despite knowing better – and paying the price. It was...

by Scott Barkley NASHVILLE, TN (BP) – Early next month, Eddie Gilley will lead a group of 42 students from the University of Florida’s...

by Doru Radu Costache Ioanid was a Romanian poet. He was born 1912 in Ukraine, and died in 1987 in Portland, Oregon. Before WWII,...

by Jason Thacker NASHVILLE, TN (BP) – In the hours following the historic Dobbs decision, which recognized that the states have the right...