Here’s the Explore the Bible Sunday School lesson commentary for October 13, written by Mark Rathel, pastor of Friendship Baptist Church in DeFuniak Springs, Florida.
As Florida Baptists continue helping impacted communities following Hurricane Helene, the state is now bracing for more damage with Hurricane Milton expected to make landfall later this week.
“At the end of the day, God is the originator, designer and inventor of it all,” said Pruitt, national Next Gen director for the North American Mission Board. “He also gets to define what things are.”
“Reading the Bible is how we discover Who God is, what God is like, and what God expects of us as His children,” writes Mississippi pastor Michael Warren.
George Bullard asks, “What does it mean to be categorized as a soaring, strong, stumbling, struggling or spiritless association? Is your association stuck in a virtual escape room because of its assessment?”
When the sexual abuse task force, formed in May of 2023, gave its final report at the BGCT Executive Board meeting Sept. 24, the task force chair noted resources need to be accessible on a user-friendly website…
Tennessee Baptists hold largest-ever Disaster Relief training in state. “I was expecting about 200 participants but we doubled that. I was blown away,” said Wes Jones, Disaster Relief specialist for the Tennessee Baptist Mission Board.
Hundreds of women gathered at First Baptist Church Benton for the Arkansas Baptist Women Conference, themed “More of Jesus and less of me!” based on John 3:30.
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Antioch Baptist Church in Humboldt recently honored Aubrey Wilson for 50 years as a faithful leader of young men through Royal Ambassadors (RAs).
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