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James Welch Coming On as President of NOBM
New Orleans Baptist Ministries is the community ministry arm of the New Orleans Baptist Association, responsible for carrying out the cooperative compassion ministry goals of the churches of NOBA through financial and strategy development, execution, and management. Over the past decade NOBM has launched Baptist Community Health Services, a full-service
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Love is a Promise, Advent Devotionals
It took me decades and far too many mistakes to understand that love, in essence, is a promise. I mean love in the Biblical sense. There are other versions out there, of course. Oftentimes I hear people use the word, when really they mean something closer to enjoyment or infatuation,
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Reason for Joy, by Santos Geovany Gomez
A beautiful Hymn recites these words: Joyful, all ye nations rise, join the triumph of the skies; with angelic host proclaim, ‘Christ is born in Bethlehem!’ Hark the herald angels sing, ‘Glory to the newborn King.’ Many may say that they don’t have a good reason for joy since their
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Peace and the Presence of Restoration
One of the main tactics of the enemy is to convince us we are already receiving from the world what is promised in Christ, and peace is no exception. To say the same thing differently, Satan wants to sell you cheap imitations of the real things God alone can give.
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Hope Is a Dangerous Thing
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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Entrenamiento Hispano para el Crossover New Orleans-SBC New Orleans 2023
[Originally published in Baptist Press; posted here with permission.] En la iglesia bautista El Buen Pastor, en Metairie, Louisiana, se juntaron pastores, líderes, misioneros y servidores laicos hispanos de los bautistas del sur, unidos para recibir entrenamiento sobre el Crossover el próximo junio en New Orleans. El Crossover es un
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Why Take Part in Serve Tour and Crossover?
[This article was originally posted in the Baptist Message. Reposted with permission.] By Brian Blackwell, Baptist Message staff writer NEW ORLEANS (LBM) – Louisiana Baptists have a golden opportunity to reap a harvest of souls during a pair of evangelistic efforts preceding the 2023 Southern Baptist Convention Annual Meeting, which is
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Is Unity in the SBC Possible?
We had a discussion this week in our office about whether or not unity is even possible in our denomination and in our country, and our conclusion was this: yes. A thousand times yes. Because, which separation, which distance is greater: that which, in our sin, divided us from Christ,
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By Pastor Kyle Jagers: The Fury of the Fatherless & the Faithfulness of the Father
(This article is published with permission of the author, originally published on nolabaptist.org.) In the December 2020 issue of First Things, Mary Eberstadt wrote an article titled, “The Fury of the Fatherless.” Her argument in the article is that much of the dysfunction that we see in Western society can
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The Abounding Life of Christ
There’s a lot of talk in the church, and rightfully so, about the death of Jesus Christ, his atoning death in our place which is the source and wellspring of our salvation from sin. We wear crosses on our necks, and tell people “Jesus died for you.” This is good.
