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As I mentioned in my last post, I'll be spending the next few weeks on this site talking about effective church planting in the local ...

Two weeks ago I was invited to lead a session at the NoBA annual conference for Directors of Missions at Southwestern Seminary on Effective...

John MacArthur needs to repent! That's a strong statement, I know. And before I explain why I feel this is the only appropriate respons...

Pastor Terry Jones is, quite literally, "on the war path." Jones, head of Dove World Outreach Church in Florida, is determined to...

This week, I'm in Gulfport, Mississippi with about 40 volunteers from eight of our churches. We have been at work down here helping reb...

As I write this post, I'm sitting in my living room watching my boys play and anticipating a GREAT pasta dinner my wife is making. Both...

Reading Leonard Pitts' Miami Herald Column in this past Sunday's paper was especially hard for me. Entitled "A Child's Vie...

More posts are coming shortly on more serious themes, but you MUST see the video below! Absolutely hillarious. Enjoy! Oh, and if you see ...

To the left is our new daughter, Abigail Grace Rainey! Ten days ago our family was driving to a 5-K race to help raise funds for a local pre...

Buckle up boys and girls, this is going to be a long one! In the last two posts I have listed the good, the bad, and the ugly of the GCR pre...

Let me preface this post with the admission that I studied math in public school . . .in South Carolina. :) That fact should explain the f...

The GCR Task Force was charged last year with recommending ways that Southern Baptists can do our work more effectively. In my last post I ...

"Getting the Gospel to the nations" was the rallying cry that produced a 95%-plus vote to form the GCR Task Force on the floor of ...

For almost six years, I have served the Lord, the churches of my association, and those separated from Jesus in central Maryland. After spe...

"Zealotism" is a term that originates with a first century Jewish group who believed--essentially--that the Messiah was first and ...

"Look for the words 'social justice' or 'economic justice' on your church web site. If you find it, run as fast as you...

That I listened last night to the initial report of the Great Commission Resurgence Task Force--a group that is dillegently seeking a common...

Part of my work with the Baptist Convention of Maryland/Delaware involves helping to assess candidates who seek to plant new churches with u...