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  • FIRST-PERSON: EKG is vital to resurgence
    by Danny Sinquefield, posted Monday, December 21, 2009 (14 years ago)

    BARTLETT, Tenn. (BP)--For the past 15 years, the Southern Baptist church where I am pastor has experienced a steady stream of new believers into our fellowship ... Read More

  • FIRST-PERSON: A growing concern
    by Kenneth S. Hemphill, posted Thursday, August 21, 2008 (16 years ago)

    NASHVILLE, Tenn. (BP)--Recently I was in Tulsa, Okla., sharing in an EKG/Sunday School conference. It was both well-organized and well-attended. Read More

  • FIRST-PERSON: Working cooperatively for the Kingdom
    by Kenneth Hemphill, posted Wednesday, September 26, 2007 (16 years ago)

    NASHVILLE, Tenn. (BP)--I had a college friend who played basketball in prep school with Pistol Pete Maravich. My friend could also score with the best of them. Their prep school program had several other athletes who had been selected by major college programs. Read More

  • FIRST-PERSON: Generous stewardship
    by Kenneth Hemphill, posted Thursday, July 26, 2007 (17 years ago)

    NASHVILLE, Tenn. (BP)--"Houston, we have a problem!" Do you remember those words? Thus began one of the great crises-to-success stories in recent history. An Apollo space mission in great peril was saved by a team of people determined to find a solution. Read More

  • FIRST-PERSON: A global missions strategy
    by Kenneth Hemphill, posted Tuesday, June 19, 2007 (17 years ago)

    NASHVILLE, Tenn. (BP)--Not long ago I was invited to preach for a good friend who was pastor of a rural church in Morganton, N.C. This was the town where my mother lived, and he used this fact as a subtle bit of pressure to get me to come for a revival emphasis. Read More

  • FIRST-PERSON: Nurturing biblical fellowship
    by Kenneth Hemphill, posted Tuesday, May 15, 2007 (17 years ago)

    NASHVILLE, Tenn. (BP)--Words like loneliness, isolation and alienation describe how many people feel about their existence. We have become such a transient people that few people live near their nuclear family. Read More

  • FIRST-PERSON: Are You Serious?
    by Kenneth S. Hemphill, posted Friday, August 11, 2006 (18 years ago)

    NASHVILLE, Tenn. (BP)--It has been nearly four years since Southern Baptists officially set themselves on a quest we call "Empowering Kingdom Growth." I came to the Executive Committee to become EKG's first full-time national strategist nearly three years ago. Southern Baptists were insistent that EKG not become another slogan or program. Thus we have faced a challenge in our attempt to develop an EKG process without allowing it to become another program. Read More

  • FIRST-PERSON: Then & now
    by Ken Hemphill, posted Monday, January 23, 2006 (18 years ago)

    NASHVILLE, Tenn. (BP)--What next? That seems to be the question that we regularly attempt to answer. Sometimes it is asked in relationship to the next paradigm for the church. For a period of time, "paradigm" was the buzzword, and we were all looking for a new one -- whether we understood what "paradigm" meant or not. At other times, when we asked “What next?” we were simply wondering about the next program or study that would engage our hearts and minds for a time and, hopefully, impact lives and churches. Read More