by John D. Pierce | Oct 16, 2007 | Opinion
On a recent Sunday morning at Highland Hills Baptist Church in Macon, Ga., an ensemble of about two dozen adults performed Celebrate Life! The classic musical by Buryl Red and Ragan Courtney, published in 1972, has amazing staying power.Youth choirs of the ’70s...
by John D. Pierce | Oct 13, 2007 | Opinion
Practicing what we preach is one of the hardest disciplines in life. Often we set the bar higher for others than we are willing to leap ourselves.In some cases, we simply don’t follow the advice we quickly dispense to others. That seems to be the case with...
by John D. Pierce | Oct 9, 2007 | Opinion
Sometimes an email subject line can get your mind to wondering. Such was the case with one sent to me recently by Callie Davis, staff assistant for the Baptist House of Studies at Duke University Divinity School directed by Curtis Freeman.Enclosed were results from a...
by John D. Pierce | Oct 7, 2007 | Opinion
Advent — the four-week period leading to Christmas — has been gaining recognition in recent years among Baptist churches that otherwise have given little or no attention to an observance of the Church Year.Worship planners introducing the season marked by anticipation...
by John D. Pierce | Oct 4, 2007 | Opinion
On Oct. 1, exactly one month after starting his new job, General Secretary Neville Callam of the Baptist World Alliance and I sat down for a conversation. He was in Atlanta as part of an 18-city tour throughout the U.S. and Canada.A bright, articulate and gifted man,...
