Supplying Needs in Texas and West Virginia

Separate floods caused great damage in the Houston area and in many counties of West Virginia this Summer. We have had aid workers handing out supplies in both areas. Houston experienced its second major flood in recent weeks with more than 1,000 homes destroyed and...

Mentoring to Empower the Church

In 2 Timothy 1:1-2, we read, “Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ by the will of God, according to the promise of life which is in Christ Jesus, to Timothy, a beloved son: Grace, mercy, and peace from God the Father and Christ Jesus our Lord” (NKJV). In our passage, Paul...

Training New Believers

Earlier this year, a newspaper in Knoxville, Tennessee refused to run a Christian book store ad because it contained an offensive word: “Christian.” In Cleveland, a billboard was refused for the film “God’s Not Dead 2” because the wording was “incendiary.” How do we...

We’ve Come This Far By Faith

When my dad started his radio ministry not long after Thomas Road Baptist Church was founded, he chose the song, “We’ve Come This Far By Faith” as the theme of the broadcast. That song, written by Albert Goodson, contains these powerful words: We’ve come this far by...

Who Are You Mentoring?

The book of Deuteronomy takes place over the course of just 37 days.  Moses is an elderly man as he writes this wonderful book and he is preparing Israel for new leadership because he knows he will soon die. What a time for Israel.  Even though they often stumbled...