Jan 31, 2013 | Being the Church
Audrey was baptized on January 20, 2013. Back in the fall of 2012, she asked about why she had not been baptized and why she did not receive the bread and juice during communion. I told her about what it means to be a believer, to claim your faith, to decide that you...
Oct 23, 2012 | Being the Church, Encouraging Words
To celebrate Sarah Jackson Shelton’s ten years as pastor of Baptist Church of the Covenant, Birmingham, Alabama, Bridget Rose collected prayers offered by church members and friends during the church’s worship services from September 8, 2002 to September...
Oct 10, 2012 | Being the Church
I pastor a church where women are free to be and do all God calls them to be and to do. In the last few years, we have ordained women to be deacons, elders, and ministers of the gospel. Today, we no longer talk much about women in ministry at Spring Creek for the...
Oct 8, 2012 | Being the Church
I noticed him stepping hurriedly across the uneven church yard. I worried he may be moving faster than advised. I called, “Good morning!” He called back, “I’m late.” I replied, “Well, grab my elbow and we’ll go together.” At the church door, the greeter opened the...
Oct 2, 2012 | Being the Church, Encouraging Words
“Reflecting Her Story” is a bi-weekly series of reflections on the stories of biblical women and the ways they model lives of character, boldness, faith and ministry for women today. Paul went to see [Aquila and Priscilla], and, because he was of the same...
Sep 27, 2012 | Being the Church, Encouraging Words
Five Percent The number of Cooperative Baptist Fellowship churches currently pastored by women? Five Percent. Eighteen hundred churches. Ninety women. You do the math. This is good news. But somehow laying out the starkness of that figure . . . well, it doesn’t...
