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Your Voice: To whom are you thankful?

November 23, 2023

“Thanksgiving is more about WHOM we give thanks to than WHAT we give thanks for,” shares Adam Dooley, author and pastor of Englewood Baptist Church in Jackson, Tennessee.

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Thanksgiving: Food, faith and football

November 23, 2023

It’s Thanksgiving, which unfortunately sometimes gets lost in between Halloween and Christmas. Thanksgiving yard decorations don’t get the love the other two holidays do.

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12 ways to regularly practice Thanksgiving

November 22, 2023

We have so much for which to be grateful today. I fear, though, that we too often limit our expressions of thanksgiving to only this day.

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Time to review your ‘good list’ and add a few more blessings

November 21, 2023

A church in our community hit a rough stretch several years ago. The staff, already ministering to members after a series of tragedies in the church family, suddenly faced the pastor losing his wife and infant during childbirth …

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First person: May we always remember — To live is Christ

November 18, 2023

Carved on my parents’ headstone in a rural church cemetery in southeast Missouri are the profound words of Philippians 1:21, “To live is Christ. To die is gain.”

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First person: ‘Invaluable’ lessons I learned from Adrian Rogers

November 16, 2023

Dr. Adrian Rogers’ love for Jesus Christ was palpable. You heard it in every sermon and felt it in every conversation.

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Assessing pros and cons of AI in ministry

November 16, 2023

First, let’s clarify what artificial intelligence is and isn’t. Most people think of science fiction-level AI when discussing this topic. However, we are not close to a scenario like Skynet taking over the world.

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First person: A sabbatical was the best gift I received as a pastor

November 9, 2023

In the fall of 2021, Neill’s Creek Baptist Church in Angier afforded me a 12-week sabbatical. This provision was included in the covenant when I was called as senior pastor in February of 2011.

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First person: Remembering Lloyd Elder, Southern Baptist statesman

November 8, 2023

Lloyd Elder died Nov. 3 after a lengthy illness. Southern Baptists lost a statesman — and bivocational and small church pastors across the denomination lost a friend. 

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First person: 3 ways pastors can educate churches on war in Holy Land

November 7, 2023

A significant number of Christians don’t have an accurate context of Israel’s history and, as a result, don’t have a bigger picture of what’s happening.

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