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FIRST-PERSON: Moving beyond Feb. 5

JACKSON, Tenn. (BP) — C.S. Lewis in The Problem of Pain says that God often uses the experiences of suffering as a megaphone to awaken us. Suffering and pain, Lewis said, are often the essential means by which God brings…

FIRST HAND: Persecution continues in India’s Orissa state

Loving greetings in the name of Jesus Christ from the Kandhamal, Orissa, where your brethren are undergoing much persecution and need your prayer and encouragement. The effected brethren are still in fear and despair in their own villages. Several of…

Thanks for partnership

I am glad to know that you are safely back to home and at your place of work. I do not want to say just a thank you. It is more than that. Your presence, message in the mission week…

Great preaching resource

I highly recommend God's Stories, by Fred Anderson, as one of the very best preaching resources I've come across in a long time. This past Sunday I used one of the stories as a spoken call to worship, and had…

Preching the lectionary

As I began my sermon preparation for our Sunday worship service this week, I felt strongly led to read the Scriptures listed in the lectionary for the third Sunday in Lent. As I read all of the Old and New…

News about Virginia Baptists and their ministries for March 6, 2008

STAFF CHANGES • Timothy Corder, to Braddock Church, Alexandria, as pastor. • Linda Garrett,to Long Branch Church, The Plains, as pastor. • Roland McCraw, to Stone Mountain Church, Laurel Fork, as pastor. • Bill Rose,to Mill Creek Church, Lebanon, as…

Judge rules in Windermere’s favor, against convention

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (ABP) — Windermere Baptist Conference Center acted legally when it changed its articles of incorporation, Cole County (Mo.) Circuit Court Judge Richard Callahan ruled March 4. The ruling was the latest action in a lawsuit the Missouri…

Baptists Today to honor Knight at 25th anniversary celebration

MACON, Ga. (ABP) — Walker Knight, founding editor of Baptists Today, will be honored April 3 as part of the independent news journal's 25th anniversary celebration. Knight launched the national publication first known as SBC Today in 1983, shortly after…

Journalist Moyers’ son recounts journey from addiction to faith

SAN ANTONIO (ABP) — William Cope Moyers grew up believing the prayer his parents taught him: “God is great. God is good.” But when his childlike faith in a good and great God died in a flash, he sought to…

Opinion: The battle for power and the spirit of Christ

(ABP) — In various ways I have been trying to pry open some space between our Christian understanding of the mission of the church and the work of earthly politics — without creating such a gulf that we retreat entirely…

On March 4, Catholics boost Clinton; evangelicals can’t save Huckabee

WASHINGTON (ABP) — In the March 4 election contests, Hillary Clinton reestablished her previous support among Catholic Democrats while continued evangelical support wasn't enough to keep Mike Huckabee in the GOP race. The upshot of religious voters' effect in the…

Correction

In the March 4 story titled “Kidnapped worker, Afghan driver apparently dead in Afghanistan,” please change the 19th graph to: According to an April 10, 1997, BP story, the Mindanao Baptist Rural Life Center, led by Palmer, launched ARLDF, which…

Theologizing with Larkin Poe, 10 years after Reskinned

Ministry leader with tall tales wins GOP bid for Colorado governor

What Willy Rice once knew

What I learned July 5 at church