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We live in a world defined by numbers. They are everywhere we go and define much of society. From the number on a scale to the number on a report card to the number of points on a scoreboard to the number of friends that liked a recent social media post to the number of dollars in a bank account to the number of direct reports to the number of years on the planet to the number of years single or married - the list is endless. As we begin this ...

Barkley, an award-winning Champion Clydesdale who traveled all over the US and Canada, was finally being retired after ten years of competition. Read Barkley's story, told by his new owner, Wally Elliott, as he begins his life on the Diamond E Farm with his new friends - nine Labrador retrievers, a coon dog, five barn cats, and a horse named Cinnamon.

Barkley, an award-winning Champion Clydesdale who traveled all over the US and Canada, was finally being retired after ten years of competition. Read Barkley's story, told by his new owner, Wally Elliott, as he begins his life on the Diamond E Farm with his new friends - nine Labrador retrievers, a coon dog, five barn cats, and a horse named Cinnamon.

Can you imagine the chaos a young person like Daniel must have experienced? What happened to his family? Daniel was uprooted from his old familiar surroundings and traveled across the desert to the large city of Babylon. The language was different, the customs were different, the religion was different, and the food was different. All that Daniel had known was gone. Daniel was separated from the Temple, separated from Jerusalem, his family, hi...

Chloe Buckner, a veteran of two tours of duty in Afghanistan, has been running from a bad marriage. All her life it seems she has been running from something, until she finds a job at Conway Resort, a good, safe place to work and raise her daughter. Finally, she's found a chance at peace.Then the unthinkable happens. The past catches up with her - not just her past, but history itself, as the two converge at the resort in the middle of a hurri...

Marriage is a human relationship designed by God. In this potentially great partnership between a man, a woman, and God, failure too often occurs. A couple gets married with the expectation that it will last for a lifetime. Most probably expect a happy experience. What our high divorce rate reflects is that marriage is hard work. It takes commitment to God and to our mate. It involves knowing and accepting who we are and who we married. It inc...

Juanita Garrison, The Baptist Courier's cheery cooking columnist, is sharing some of her favorite recipes in a new book, " Sunday Best."Garrison pored over more than a dozen years' worth of recipes submitted by Courier readers and added a few of her own for this collection. The book includes more than a hundred kitchen favorites and, in most cases, the personal stories Courier readers shared with Garrison about how the recipes came to be."Doin...

Some people stop living long before they die, and some embrace every moment of life until their dying breath. In "You Can Live Until You Die, " author James R. Gray shares the true-life stories of men and women who have achieved more in their retirement years than they did in their so-called "working" years. Every day gives us the opportunity to live life enthusiastically. Better still is to know Christ and to believe His promise in John 10:10...

Before there was a Woman's Missionary Union, there was Hephzibah Jenkins Townsend, a determined and courageous woman who transcended the societal constraints of the antebellum South to found a missionary society that would become the model for hundreds of others to follow. Hephzibah, mistress of a large plantation on South Carolina's Edisto Island, gave birth to fifteen children. Her passion was missions, and in order to fund missions and to f...

Americans have a vested interest in many political issues, including abortion, gun control, terrorism, the deficit, climate, healthcare and immigration, among others. For people in Third World countries, such political divisions may spill over into matters of life or death, including the availability of such basic essentials as food and water.Is it possible there are transcendent realities more important than any of these concerns? Ernest Ray ...

Before the creation of the earth or mankind, angels existed. They have always gone about their great ministry unnoticed. Angels were created by God for His own glory and to serve Him through serving His people. They are eternal and immortal. They look at the lives of humans and marvel at God's redemption of lost people. The angels watch us, follow us, and get involved in this world as directed by God - and that's when it gets interesting! Thro...

More than forty years ago, Danny Burnley was formally disassociated - excommunicated - from his home church. His "crime"? As a young deacon, he went to the pastor and asked him to prayerfully consider holding a reconciliation service to help heal the ongoing friction that existed between the pastor and the deacons. Dismissal from his church's fellowship was "the worst thing and the best thing" that had ever happened to him. It was the worst ...

Through a study of the Book of Lamentations, author Danny Emory hopes to help people who have been deeply hurt by the loss of someone or something they loved and held very close. Through the truth of God's word as it is applied to your injured spirit, you will find healing and maturity that while help you move through the pain and grief.

One of the greatest sins in the church today is unbelief. As long as this sin prevails in local assemblies, the Church will not be made up of Spirit-filled followers of God. Author and pastor Keith Davis asserts that if Christ's followers honestly seek to be what the Bible says they should be, they will have to confront their own sin of unbelief. In so doing, he says, it will revolutionize their lives - and their churches!

For anyone who grew up in Sunday school, the stories of Jesus' miracles are familiar: turning water into wine, banishing a demon, healing a blind man, speaking a storm out of existence. These miracles, even in their incredulousness, may be so matter-of-factly accepted that we cease to be astonished by the depth of love to which they testify. Mayna Cosby is out to change that. In All About the Miracles, she seeks to dig deeper into the stories,...

In each of the exciting Sand Dollar Cove tales, the "Cove Kids" discover important life lessons and biblical values. Through their sea adventures, mazes, crosswords and activities, children encounter some of the rich treasures the Bible offers. The Cove adventures, however, are intended not only to entertain, but also to lead children to a greater interest in the Bible and an awareness of how Scripture applies to their lives.

In each of the exciting Sand Dollar Cove tales, the "Cove Kids" discover important life lessons and biblical values. Through their sea adventures, mazes, crosswords and activities, children encounter some of the rich treasures the Bible offers. The Cove adventures, however, are intended not only to entertain, but also to lead children to a greater interest in the Bible and an awareness of how Scripture applies to their lives.

On March 19, 2011, six-year-old Benji Easler died in the most unforeseen way imaginable when the miniature train ride he was on derailed onto a rocky creek bank in a county park in Spartanburg, South Carolina. Others, including Benji's parents and his two brothers, were seriously hurt, but Benji was the only one to succumb to his injuries. In the days, weeks and months that followed, Dwight and Tabitha Easler, along with their three children (...

Are you interested in Washington Baptist Church's long-lasting history and how our church has victoriously waved the banner of Christ these 200 years? How did we come to be? Where were we first located? Who was our first pastor? What have been the major milestones in our many enduring years of serving our Lord here at Washington? What are our precious memories? These questions and others will be answered as you begin to read in this book the j...

From the perils of drawing on new eyebrows to a run-in with the Big White Mannequin Head at the Look Good Feel Better seminar to yeast-bread evangelism, author Jill Carraway has saturated a daunting situation with faith and humor - because nobody likes a surly sick person. Her hilarious contemplations will inspire and encourage others who might be going through their own "Stupid Adventure.