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The fourth book I would like to recommend for reading in 2024 is In The Lord I Take Refuge: 150 Daily Devotions through the Psalms by Dane C. Ortlund. One of the things I love about the Psalms is the psalmists’ transparency and vulnerability. Sometimes, when you read a Psalm, it almost feels like…

One of the books I have chosen to read this year is a book on how the gospel is lived out in everyday church life. One of our goals at Grand is to see the gospel not only shape our worship services but shape every ministry in the church and also create a gospel-DNA in the life of the relationships…

The second book I want to recommend for reading this year is Newton on the Christian Life: To Life is Christ. Isaac Newton may have discovered the Law of Gravity, but John Newton helps us discover God’s Amazing Grace. This book on the life of John Newton is excellent! It is part of the series…

Many people will develop a list of books they want to read when a new year starts. I usually keep a stack of books that I want to read going all the time so when the new year starts, I just keep going with what I was already reading. However, this year, I decided to develop a list of books that I think I need to read this year for my spiritual growth. For the next several…

Dear GABC, This past Sunday, we began our journey through the book of Acts. As I mentioned in the sermon, Acts presents some interesting interpretive challenges, and I want to prepare us to hit them. Also, if you are aware of these interpretive challenges and know how to approach them, your reading of Acts will be much more beneficial. Perhaps you have heard someone say,…

Kevin Ezell, NAMB President Steadfast on Mission Being a missionary is never easy. Whenever Christians answer the call to go to the mission field, they expect to encounter challenges, but no one could have planned for a global pandemic that would bring the world grinding to a halt. Even so, I’m grateful to say that Southern Baptist missionaries have continued to see the…

Jacob & Francine Zailian, Sanger, California Reaching the “Lost Cause” Jacob knows the homeless, drug addicts and gang members of Sanger. He used to live among them before he went to jail and met Jesus there. Now he and his wife, Francine, are reaching those who “would scare people who go to most churches,” Jacob said. Through Set Free Church, they take the gospel to…

Bobby & LaKeisha Williams, Slidell, Louisiana Picking Up the Pieces Bobby and LaKeisha Williams have a simple goal—to meet the deep need of New Orleans with the even deeper love of Christ. In the city, some buildings are still boarded up from Hurricane Katrina in 2005. The area around the Williamses’ church plant is predominantly African American and low-income. “A…