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GRAPEVINE, Texas (BP) – What gives you hope? Our ultimate hope is eternal life in Christ, and that is the best answer to that question. But there are human analogs for ultimate hope – light in the darkness, the protection of a hen for her chicks, a land of milk…
EDITOR'S NOTE: Jack Hunter is executive director of the New Orleans Baptist Association. Saturday (Aug. 29) is the 15th anniversary of Hurricane Katrina. NEW ORLEANS (BP) -- Disaster narrows focus and frames choice. When your neighbor is busted up and bleeding out, do you go to him or pass by?…
FRANKLIN, Tenn. (BP) -- It is one of the most common questions we get from church leaders: When will all the church members return to in-person services?
The Christian life is a spiritual battle, an open warfare for our allegiance. The apostle Paul provides weapons for the invisible, spiritual battle we face.
How a mysterious book inscribed with a mysterious phone number changed the course of my life.
OKLAHOMA CITY (BP) – A writer spent time with a shepherd on the Texas plains. One night, the shepherd built a fire, and the sheep gathered close. Around midnight, a coyote howled in the distance, followed by another coyote from the opposite direction. The fearful sheep began bleating.
FORT WORTH, Texas (BP) -- The Lord Jesus Christ gave the church its commission before he ascended to His Father:
LYNCHBURG, Va. (BP) -- Embattled Liberty University president Jerry Falwell Jr. released a statement late Sunday night (Aug 23.) through the Washington Examiner in which he claims his wife, Becki, had an "inappropriate personal relationship" in the past with a family friend who threatened to go public with details of…
COVINGTON, Tenn. (BP) -- I wonder, through this extended time of social distancing, if the Lord wants to have a conversation with us like He did with Peter by the sea one day — a “define the relationship” kind of talk. You’ve probably had these before — “Will this dating…
FORT WORTH, Texas (BP) -- Rebekah Ann Naylor, a longtime medical missionary to India, has been appointed distinguished professor of missions in the Roy J. Fish School of Evangelism and Missions at Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary, the school’s administration announced today (Aug. 20). She is the first woman ever to…
