The University of Louisiana at Lafayette baseball team has high hopes for the upcoming season, but three players recently celebrated other victories when they were baptized at The Bayou Church in Lafayette.
You may read the headline and automatically assume I am opposed to churches paying tribute to their ministers. Nothing could be further from the truth.
When he and his wife moved into The Baptist Homes’ Arcadia Valley campus here last April, John Sanders figured his hunting days were over for good. He was wrong.
“Missionaries don’t move to third world countries just for fun,” a student from Southwestern Seminary noted. “They stay because they trust that God’s plan is the best for their life and others’ lives.”
Kids, student, next generation and family ministry leaders gathered recently at Brentwood Baptist Church in Brentwood, Tennessee, for Lifeway Christian Resource’s annual Next Gen Ministry Conference — ETCH.
As the crisis unfolds in Israel, numerous media outlets are reporting that Hamas is threatening to post disturbing videos on social media over the weekend showing hostages being executed.
“Your obedience to go isn’t where it stops,” says Adela Huezo. “It’s where it begins!”
When Tom Stolle’s sister-in-law suggested that he and his wife have their son, Jimmy, tested for autism, Stolle recalls, “I didn’t receive the news very well.”
“It’s not intimidating, not threatening, but a great open door to share the gospel. I am more thankful for what that number represents — we got to share the gospel with over 1,000 souls,” said Locust Grove Baptist Church’s pastor.
“I have seen lots of smiles and looks of relief on everyone’s faces [following their return from Israel],” one church member of Sunnyside Baptist Church in Kingsport noted.
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