What you say to your family, friends and acquaintances online and in your everyday life matters. Your words can tear down or build up, give life or destroy, point others to Jesus where grace and truth meet or lead others away from Jesus.

I ask you, which of the three who stopped was a neighbor?

Jack Wyman shares a humorous and profound lesson he learned while trying to close the trunk on a rental car.

Throughout Scripture, God calls on us to speak up for the oppressed, to treat others how we wanted to be treated, to love our neighbors as ourselves, to be kind, to love mercy and to walk humbly with God. What if we practiced these commands when it comes to racial justice?

The ways of sin, over time, are incredibly clever. When unexamined, sin seams into our world and becomes seen as simply “the way things are.”

I had no idea two years ago that a conversation on a Tuesday afternoon would turn into an avenue for blessing.

David’s story shows that God does not leave sexual violence against women unpunished.

As Texas Baptists, our one calling and one hope is the salvation of souls. Let there be no division among us on this point. To every tongue, every nation, every man and woman, every socio-economic class, we have one hope.

The Sermon on the Mount—among other places—sets the bar of God’s justice quite high. As disciples, we are to give and render goodness to those who are our friends and our enemies, the familiar and the stranger.

Christian education is important because it explains the word of God. The word of God shares hope in our struggles and reminds us “trouble don’t last always.”

With a First Baptist Church in almost every town, think about the God-given, strategic opportunity available in our communities for what God wants to do now and in the future.

Two weeks ago, John McArthur and a group of his associates met in Dallas to draft a statement entitled “Social Justice & The Gospel.” The statement, while intended to shore up the ethics of Scripture against alien agendas, is well-intended but misses the mark.