Where’s Barnabas?
One of my favorite scenes from the movie “Christmas Vacation” has Clark Griswold standing in his front yard with wife, children, parents and in-laws.
Celebrate — and support — grads
The spring school term has come to an end at virtually all levels.
The end of the term means different things to students at different levels.
‘Find’ your church online this summer
Back in the 1970s an evangelistic campaign featured yellow signs and bumper stickers that simply said, “I found it!” And today? Summer could be a good time for your church to try new visibility strategies or give a second try to an earlier effort that
Lay leaders are key to church health
Talking with church health consultants reveals similar stories. One common experience they often share features a church that asks for help after burning through several
Unhealthy pastoral leadership poisons churches
Pastors and church lay leadership must work to avoid becoming poisonous to their congregation and each other.
Word & Way moves closer to monthly magazine
Word & Way’s print edition will become a monthly magazine starting in July. The magazine will replace the tabloid print edition currently published every other week.
“This means that the June 18 issue will be the final every-other-week newsprint tabloid newspaper we produce,” Editor Bill
Ukrainian pastor shares story, seeks support from U.S. Baptists
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. — Pastor Elisey Pronin watched as Russian troops drove tanks and carted military equipment across Ukraine’s eastern border into the Lugansk region and into his
Trail life has its upside
My wife, one of our sons, the family Golden Retriever and I took a hike along the Katy Trail over Memorial Day weekend. The midway of the east-west trail created on an old rail-bed brushes along the northern edge of the Missouri River across from
Are we really interested in teaching the needy how to fish?
“Give a man a fish, and you’ll feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish, and you’ve fed him for a lifetime.”
The proverb is no magic wand, of course.
Johnson: Jesus needs believers to become his disciple-makers
Christians must be disciple-makers and must be willing to do the Father’s will as Jesus did.
Jeff Johnson challenged attendees at the American Baptist Churches of Nebraska annual meeting May 1-2