Traditionally, in this first week of the advent season before Christmas, we call to mind the hope we have in Christ, hope in what many have called the third advent. Christ has come incarnate, born of the virgin Mary, the first advent. He has come into each Christian’s life, the
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Painting Credit: “Jesus Feeds 5000” by Eric Feather, used with expressed consent. All rights reserved. How many times, as Southern Baptists, have we heard compassion ministries pitted against evangelism—as though the two are separate, as though the two are contradictory? One of my favorite things about Jesus is the
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Is racism still an issue among churches? If not, if racism is a past offense, then the recent MLK50 conference which our NOBA staff attended was the reopening of a sealed wound, the undoing of decades of hard-fought healing. If not, Russell Moore deserves the criticism our state executive recently
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FBC Avondale, along with two small Michigan churches, has been partnering with Food for the Hungry (FH) since 2011 to help lead a village out of physical, relational, and spiritual poverty. Our village, Janlay, is located in the northern mountains of Guatemala in the Ixil triangle. The Ixil people are
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Last week, Pope Francis addressed the highest seat of our nation’s legislative government. He has been called “the people’s Pope” by many of his observers.
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“We must work the work of him who sent me while it is day, for night cometh when no man can work.” (John 9:4) God used the church at Antioch to commission and send out Paul and Barnabas to proclaim the gospel to unreached and unengaged people groups.
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