Why should you consider supporting the GIBM (Global Independent Baptist Missions) Office on a monthly basis? It has a good reputation among churches. It’s impossible to use the GIBM without being sent by a local church. Money is handled efficiently, practically, and consistently. Its reports are very clear and organized. It alleviate the stress of…
He sat in the driver’s seat, all of 18 years old. It was time to make a final decision. He pulled out of that familiar driveway, leaving behind countless stains on the cracked concrete, each dried puddle of oil and coolant holding a memory of fixing another leak under the watchful eye of an experienced,…
This might be a good time to remind you that, while I serve as editor of the Baptist Times, my views do not necessarily reflect those of the entire Global Independent Baptist Fellowship. Likely, all of us agree that gender is important. We might simply weight it differently. The priority we give it would differ…
As I prepare to go to the Philippines to preach a Missions Conference for Missionary Mike Reap, my mind frequently wanders to previous trips I’ve taken to far-off lands and to the adventures I have encountered. While it doesn’t deal directly with being a sending church, it should serve as a challenge to sending churches…
One of my passions in life comes as a result of believing that America needs independent Baptist churches. Really badly. Basically, America needs New Testament Christianity, and my own study of Scripture leads to me to believe that independent Baptist churches—warts and all—come closer to that than any other type of church. Therefore, I have…
