Apr 22, 2013 | Being a Minister, Being the Church
I am a Baptist minister but am currently serving as interim pastor of First Christian Church, a Disciples of Christ congregation, in Birmingham, Alabama. The transition to a Disciples church has been an easy one for me. Baptists and Disciples are very similar in...
Apr 16, 2013 | Encouraging Words, Preaching
I am blessed to pastor a church where it is not unusual for women to preach. I am blessed to be married to Alicia Davis Porterfield, an outstanding preacher. It has been my privilege to preach with Alicia on occasion at our church and to hear her preach in our pulpit....
Apr 8, 2013 | +Pam Durso, Preaching
In establishing Martha Stearns Marshall Month of Preaching (MSM), the BWIM Leadership Team’s dream was to find churches in which young and starting-out Baptist women ministers could preach. We had heard so many stories from women who never had opportunities to preach...
Apr 5, 2013 | Being a Minister, Encouraging Words
All these people earned a good reputation because of their faith, yet none of them received all that God had promised. For God had something better in mind for us, so that they would not reach perfection without us. (Hebrews 11:39-40, NLT) In the words of the late...
