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IT’S A ‘HIGH-FIVE’ FRIDAY!
MURFREESBORO — For the past six years, Belle Aire Baptist Church in Murfreesboro has built a powerful connection with Hobgood Elementary, an inner-city school facing numerous low-income challenges. The partnership, part of pastor Grant Gaines’ initiative “Belle Aire Loves the ’Boro,” has mobilized church members to serve both students and
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SBC 2025: A JOYFUL SURPRISE
Bi-Vocational pastors receive dream trip to Israel DALLAS — Fifteen bi-vocational pastors received an unexpected gift at the 2025 Southern Baptist Convention Annual Meeting: an
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SOUTHERN BAPTISTS VOTE TO KEEP ERLC
DALLAS (BP) – In the latest attempt to abolish or defund the Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission, nearly 57 percent of messengers voted to keep
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CHURCHES CAN ENCOURAGE CHRISTIAN FATHERS
As a small child, my father and I often walked to the country store down the road, for an ice cream treat after supper. Just
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JUNE 29: GOD’S PROMISE
Focal Passage: Psalm 132:1-14, 17-18 Mary Poppins taught us that promises can be like pie crusts — easily made and easily broken. Mankind has become
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MATTHEW 25 MINISTRIES: SERVING WARREN COUNTY’S UNDERSERVED
McMINNVILLE — “For I was hungry, and you gave me something to eat. I was thirsty, and you gave me
JUNE 22: GOD’S REIGN
Focal Passage: Psalm 96:1-13 Did you and your sweetheart ever pick “our song?” You know, the song that marked a
JUNE 22: DAVID: A FAITH THAT MEETS ADVERSITY HEAD-ON
Focal Passage: I Samuel 17:3-8, 32-37, 45-47 The story of David and Goliath is not first and foremost a story
TENNESCENE: JUNE 11
DEATHS Carroll C. Owen, 102, died June 3 in Brentwood. Owen dedicated nearly three decades to pastoral ministry, serving Baptist