John Adams thought America’s independence should be celebrated “with Pomp and Parade, with Shews, Games, Sports, Guns, Bells, Bonfires and Illuminations from one End of this Continent to the other.”
Here’s the Explore the Bible Sunday School lesson commentary for July 12, written by Don Fugate, senior pastor of Foxworthy Baptist Church in San Jose, California.
Pastor Ezra Jin Mingri, leader of one of China’s largest underground churches, has been released from detention and reunited with his family in the United States.
When your congregation chooses to reach out to its community context or the people groups God has called you to serve, from a Christ-centered faith perspective, you know your focus is to fulfill the Great Commission in the spirit of the Great Commandment.
As America celebrates its 250th birthday in July, Indian Fork Baptist Church will have a unique opportunity on Sunday to host the dedication of a memorial of three Revolutionary War soldiers from that community.
Hollywood has given us films about nearly every chapter of American history — the Civil Rights Movement, World War II, the Civil War and the Space Race. But, strangely, it has largely overlooked the life of the man many consider the most influential American in history: George Washington.
Dallas Baptist University’s K. Randel Everett Center for Global Religious Freedom marked two significant anniversaries during a June 29 webinar, highlighting both Ukraine’s longstanding constitutional protections for religious liberty and the destruction of religious sites since the war in Ukraine started.
You can tell how most conferences will end before the opening session. People arrive excited. The coffee is good. The worship is excellent. Speakers are
Kentucky Baptists have taken another step in sharing the gospel in Chile, this time involving Baptist Campus Ministry students from Morehead State University and Northern Kentucky University in a weeklong mission effort in a city described as “forgotten and depressed.”
Nearly two years after Hurricane Helene devastated communities across western North Carolina, N.C. Baptists on Mission has reached a major milestone in the ongoing rebuild efforts in the region by completing work on its 1,000th home.
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