EDITORIAL: Time to drop Baptist?
Is it time for the Southern Baptist Convention (SBC) to drop Baptist from its name? With baptisms falling for the third year in a row among Southern Baptist churches...

PERSPECTIVE: Pure, Simple
Over the last several weeks, I have been making my way through an 895-page biography of Charles Haddon Spurgeon. Spurgeon was the pastor of the Metropolitan Tabernac...

RITE OF PASSAGE: Graciousness
It seems to me that our society has lost the art of graciousness. There was a time when we had an unwritten law about this-when graciousness was an integral part of...

SOMETHING TO THINK ABOUT: The Exterminator
"You've got termites." Such was the assessment of the friendly exterminator. Not the news I was hoping to hear. I saw the little dirt piles and thought a few ants mi...

MESSENGER RADIO: Organ Donation
Ray and Bob interview LifeShare Transplant Donor Services of Oklahoma communications director, Phil Van Stavern. Van Stavern received a kidney transplant in 1988 and...

Men Leave Rewired Retreat 'Electrified'
DAVIS-More than 2,200 men and boys attended the 2008 "Rewired" Oklahoma State Men's Retreat at the Falls Creek Baptist Conference Center April 25-26, and at least 30...

SBC baptisms lowest since 1987; state down 5.6 percent
Wire reports the number of people baptized in Southern Baptist churches fell for the third straight year in 2007 to the convention's lowest level since 1987....

Apache accompanists have 130 years of experience
Maxine McKnight taught piano lessons for 50 cents each. Melva Sechrist took piano lessons for 50 cents each, with no time limit. And now, more than 50 years later,...

Forrest Pollock, son killed in plane crash
BRANDON, Fla. (BP)--Florida pastor Forrest Pollock and a 13-year-old son were killed May 12 when the single-engine plane Pollock was flying crashed in North Carolina...

Relief assessment begins in China
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (BP)--Southern Baptist relief workers are in touch with partners in central China to assess needs created by the 7.9-magnitude earthquake that struc...

Chaplain shares Christ with Army Rangers
FORT BENNING, Ga. (BP)--Even on a warm day, the water in Ranger Lake at Fort Benning, Ga., is so cold it hurts. Chaplain (Capt.) Jeff Struecker steps in wearing blac...

Ed Litton to be Pastors' Conf. nominee
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (BP)--Ed Litton, senior pastor of First Baptist Church of North Mobile in Saraland, Ala., will be nominated for president of the Southern Baptist Pa...

Arab seminary safe after Beirut fighting
BEIRUT, Lebanon (BP)--The Arab Baptist Theological Seminary located outside Beirut, Lebanon, sustained no damage after fighting broke out between Hezbollah militia a...

FIRST-PERSON: Why I am not signing the 'Evangelical Manifesto'
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (BP)--On May 7, a much-anticipated document, "An Evangelical Manifesto," was officially revealed to the public. The organizers' press release declar...

Organ Donation
6-May-2008 - Ray and Bob interview LifeShare Transplant Donor Services of Oklahoma communications director, Phil Van Stavern. Van Stavern received a kidney transplant in 1988 and has since educated people on the importance of being an organ donor.

The Impact of Prayer on Revival
29-April-2008 - Ray and Bob talk with the Director of the Pastoral Leadership Team of the Louisiana Baptist Convention, Bill Robertson, about a revival that took place following the Jena Six incident. BGCO's Prayer and Spiritual Awakening specialist Greg Frizzell also joins the program to talk about the impact of prayer in revival.

Faith in You
22-April-2008 - Co-hosts Ray and Bob interview Jami Smith about her new CD, 'Faith in You.' Check the Giveaways page to register for a chance to win a copy of Jami's new CD!

The Presence of God in Revival
15-April-2008 - Ray talks with BGCO's Prayer & Spiritual Awakening Specialist Greg Frizzell about prayers that bring God's manifest presence.