Father, I come before you to pray for the Southern Baptist Convention. I know that you are sovereign over all creation, and that your mission will continue with or without our involvement. The true Church exists within the walls of the SBC, and it exists outside of it. There are Christ-followers of [...]

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I used to lump Jerry Falwell into the same category as most of the anti-culture Christians (Jerks for Jesus, as one friend puts it).  My impression of him was that he was loud and angry at everything and everybody.  Sometimes, I guess, maybe he came across that way.  Richard Niebuhr wrote in Christ and Culture [...]

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Here’s a story I’ve heard twice this week from the building coordinator at Edgewater Baptist Church in New Orleans. (That’s my church.)
We had a team of Baptists from Georgia scheduled to work on our sanctuary for last week. Two weeks ago, we found out that the sanctuary had suffered extreme termite damage over [...]

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