20 days ago by Russell Almon

Evangelicals love their clichés. No, they really do! We hear them after a huge disappointment, “God obviously has something better in store for you.” We can hear them at the break up of a longstanding relationship, “Well, he/she just wasn’t the one. You just need to wait on God’s timing.” We can hea ...

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23 days ago by Mitch

On this Thankful Thursday I am grateful for the presence of Roger Carl in my life. He is the taller half of the Paula/Roger group. Roger hails from New Mexico originally. He is in Charleston after living in Texas, Missouri, and Tennessee. He is very talented and versatile. He sings in the choir at F ...

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28 days ago by revcheese

Ever since the Lord told Moses to make a tent of animal skins, David wanted to build a house for the king of heaven, Peter wanted to make a place to camp out with the transfigured Lord or Paul rented a lecture hall, believers have been shaped by the physical structures they gather in as [...]

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31 days ago by lakelouisechronicler

Every year after the fall of the Berlin wall a small and peculiar group of men gathered at the Lake Louise United Methodist Camp. These gentlemen brought no muskets or bayonets. They prepared no canon and never marched in formation. Instead the uniforms any of them ever brought or wore were black su ...

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32 days ago by Russell Almon

Bapto-catholic…that was what the Catholic trauma chaplain at the hospital where I did my residency in Clinical Pastoral Education called me. He was intrigued that I made use of the lectionary, had an interest in and used liturgy, and made use of the prayers in the Book of Common Prayer. He told me I ...

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39 days ago by Ircel

When I was a Baptist campus minister, I often attended meetings wherespeakers said, “Missions is what holds Southern Baptists together.” Missions was proclaimed as the primarymotivator for working together and some would even proclaim that SouthernBaptist missions was “ God's Last and Only Hope” (th ...

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40 days ago by Ircel

Our preacher this morning pointedout that in ancient Roman mythology Janus is the god of beginnings andtransitions. He is usually depictedas a two-faced god since he looks to the future and the past; therefore, thefirst month of the year is named January. This is a time when we reflect on the past y ...

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45 days ago by Chris Price

Associational Mission work is like one man saying to another, " I am going the same way. Can I ride with you? I'll help pay for the gas." Many people do not understand that by working together we can accomplish more, go further, see more added to the Kingdom and God glorified. http://walkingwithchri ...

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46 days ago by christianconscience

Lately, at the instigation of a new friend, I’ve been revisiting the aberrant teachings of the New Age movement and its connection to globalism. In my Net perusing, I happened upon the Southern Baptist Convention’s 1988 and 2000 resolutions denouncing it. Interestingly, we can see their prophetic wa ...

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47 days ago by Darrell

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