“What child is this who laid to rest On Mary’s lap, is sleeping? Whom angels greet with anthems sweet While the shepherds watch are keeping.” The angels welcomed the Christ Child at His birth in Bethlehem with both praise and blessing. We heard a call for peace on earth for
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Dear NOBA Pastor, In his LPB roundtable discussion last night, Governor John Bel Edwards commended you, the pastors and faith leaders of Louisiana, for your compliance with his executive orders aimed at “flattening the curve” and stemming the surge of Coronavirus cases in our state. Your response was immediate and
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Photo Credit: Copyright by Soichi Watanabe and OMSC Our Annual Fall Meeting this year was centered around the theme of courageous conversations, specifically conversations about race and class division–the church’s part in perpetuating these divisions, and what our churches might be able to do to participate in the Spirit’s work
Continue reading[These remarks are taken from Jack Hunter’s remarks at this year’s annual fall meeting. Photo Credit: Soichi Watanabe and OMSC.] Why a Fall Meeting on racism? Has there been a racial rant at one of our churches, or has someone in our Association done harm to a person of a different
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The season of Lent is a time of meditation and self-denial, as Christians join with Jesus in his journey toward the cross. Most often, the penitential disciplines of Lent focus on personal sins of greed and indulgence, with an emphasis on abstaining from some private luxuries and exercising a certain
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My heart was recently overtaken by a tidal wave of emotions that sent my spirit tumbling into turbulence. I saw persons dear to me–as they once were, as they now are, and as they yet may be. Thoughts of love and hope and memories of my failures and culpability flooded
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Two-thirds of the Cooperative Program money given in Louisiana for world missions stops in Alexandria. This week those CP funds were used to attack Russell Moore, head of our SBC Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission. Editorialist Will Hall is paid by these same CP funds that publish the Baptist Message.
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Thus says the Lord: “Stand by the road, and look, and ask for the ancient paths, where the good way is; and walk in it, and find rest for your souls.” Jeremiah 6:16 (ESV) It was pitch dark as I walked to Vigils at Buckfast Abbey Church on this cold,
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Pilgrims are ordinary people from ordinary walks of life. Geoffrey Chaucer tells of the Miller, the Cook, the Knight, the Monk, the Priest, and the Wife of Bath meeting at the George Inn at the outset of their pilgrimage to Canterbury. Our band of pilgrims met last night at the
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