
Abortion survivor celebrates 47 years of life
Forty-seven years ago today, Melissa Ohden was born alive in Sioux City, Iowa. The abortion failed. She recently celebrated her birthday, a day that wasn’t celebrated when she took her first breath.

Forty-seven years ago today, Melissa Ohden was born alive in Sioux City, Iowa. The abortion failed. She recently celebrated her birthday, a day that wasn’t celebrated when she took her first breath.

The Spurgeon Library at Midwestern Seminary has established a partnership with Reformation Heritage Books to republish Charles Spurgeon’s 63 volumes of sermons.

Sarah Crowther spent part of her summer vacation from college exploring Porto, the second-largest city in Portugal, which has been described as “a vibrant European city [where] tradition fuels creativity.”

“Struggling associations need intervention from outside the association. Their director or strategist may easily burn out and need personal support,” writes George Bullard.

“Whatever the reason we are putting off a specific task, it likely comes down to a sense of being overwhelmed — that we aren’t sure where to start or we dread the actions required,” writes Jennifer Rash.

The IBSA student missions event, held annually in late July, provides middle and high school students one week of rotating service opportunities alongside Illinois Baptist church plants and Christ-centered non-profits in Chicago.

Worship, praise and prayer rang out as usual on a recent Sunday at Eastside Baptist Church in Claxton, Georgia, but with a big difference …

In January 2023, Chris Brown and a group of fellow songwriters working on a live worship album for Elevation Church, a nondenominational megachurch in Charlotte, North Carolina, sat down for a writing session …

Over the past few days, Kirk Baptist Church in Piperton, Tennessee, has had to post words they never wanted to post — that their pastor, Bobby Mullins, was killed in a car accident Sept. 4, and his wife, Wanda, died the following day.

A dozen people recently congregated in a home in the Nyabisindu neighborhood of Rwanda’s capital to ponder their next steps after the government shuttered numerous churches for noncompliance with health and safety regulations.
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