When God looks for leaders, he doesn’t value what we tend to value. In 1 Samuel 16:7 God says, “‘For the LORD sees not as man sees: man...

Pastor J.D. is one of those guys who likes to take a break from a good book … to enjoy another book. He reads and reads and reads. Maybe...

In churches that are reaching unchurched people, there are always going to be issues of unity. Because they reach across political lines,...

Will quarantine continue throughout the summer? We certainly hope not. But we’ve learned enough by now to stop speculating. Perhaps this...

Not everything that comes from heaven has your name on it. While all Christians are called to evangelize, give, serve, and pray (among...

I recently finished an excellent book by Navy SEALs Jocko Willink and Leif Babin called Extreme Ownership. The authors asked the...

Wisdom for Your Weekend is your regular installment of what we’ve been reading (and watching) around the web. Presented to you by Chris...

Genesis 2 tells us God created men and women equally, but differently, in his image. God called the woman an ezer kenegdo, or “another of...

Here at the Summit, we have an audacious goal of planting 1,000 churches by 2050. (By God’s grace, we have already planted 298!) One of...

In the poem she wrote celebrating victory over Sisera in Judges 5, the prophetess Deborah says, “When the princes in Israel take the...

Wisdom for Your Weekend is your regular installment of what we’ve been reading (and watching) around the web. Presented to you by Chris...

There was a time when the question of church membership was not much of a question at all. Jump back a generation or two, and nearly...

Pastor J.D. is an avid reader—both by personality and by conviction. But you don’t have to devour books as ravenously as he does to...

One of the most important concepts in the Christian ministry is the notion of tension. I instinctively resist tension, as do most people....

This afternoon the Southern Baptist Convention voted to elect me as its 62nd president. I am at once honored and humbled to step into...

This guest post comes from Blair Waggett, the Kids Director at our Chapel Hill campus. At the encouragement of several of our African...

A lot can be lost in a single generation. Ronald Reagan famously admonished Americans that they had to teach the principles of freedom to...

College students “discovered” the Summit in 2003. If I’m remembering rightly, it went something like this: One week about five college...

A passion for missions lies at the heart of the SBC—and at the heart of God, too. Because our God is a God who sends, we are a people who...

Here at the Summit, we’re praying that God would use the upcoming Easter holiday to further exalt the name of Jesus, so that hundreds...