“I think we’re not as divided as we think we are, and I think people are hungry for those virtues — the fruit of the Spirit,” said Daryn Henry, associate professor of Christian Studies at the University of Virginia.
As the Day of Prayer for the Persecuted Church approaches, Southern Baptists are encouraged to pray for the believers who are met with threats, beatings, imprisonment and even death for their faith in Christ.
Pastors are amazing people. They faithfully serve Sunday after Sunday, often with no desire for recognition or fame. In faith, they can do a lot – but here are several things they can’t do.
“It showed me the beauty of people and their resilience to heal in the face of darkness, as well as the beauty of the Church and the way so many people wanted to step up and help,” one Southeastern Seminary student said.
Born in 1991, I was the third child but the second living. My sister, Lindsay, passed away at six months old from a debilitating neuromuscular disease known as Spinal Muscular Atrophy type one. This was a death sentence back then.
University students from Zambia, Mississippi and Tennessee sat around a blazing fire pit in Lusaka, Zambia. Songs and laughter filled the night air. And, like typical college students, conversations moved deeper the longer they hung out.