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After the Storm
On Tuesday afternoon, February 23, 2016, an EF2 tornado struck LaPlace, Louisiana. The tornado hit with maximum wind speeds of 130 mph. The base was 1/4 mile wide and traveled several miles through the community, damaging over 500 homes and businesses. Several injuries were reported, though none were reported to
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Loving Lesotho by Andrew Crosby
I have to confess that before we started planning this trip, I had no clue that Lesotho existed. It’s a tiny independent nation, about ¼ the size of Louisiana, that is contained fully within the borders of South Africa. But I know now that it exists, and I know that
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Light Breaks Through
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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Response to the Attack on Russell Moore by David Crosby
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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MLK, the Church, and Racial Reconciliation
Martin Luther King Jr. is a titan of our Christian faith; truly an extraordinary man of God. I feel like my kingdom agenda is small when I consider his work, and at the same time, I’m inspired to try great things for the kingdom of Christ. Before his address to
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Corey Olivier – Reaching the Nations on Campus
NOBA, you are reaching the nations right here in our city! On Friday, November 20th over 170 international students, BCM students, and church volunteers assembled at the Alumni Center on the campus of The University of New Orleans for a feast designed to feed both the stomach and the soul.
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A Baptist Pilgrim at a Benedictine Abbey
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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Who Goes on Pilgrimage?
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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David Crosby – The “Christian” Use of Razor Wire
Razor wire now stretches along a 110-mile Hungarian border. The razor wire protects the Christian culture of Hungary from the Muslims, according to Prime Minister Viktor Orban. Jesus is the Christ from whom the word “Christian” is derived. I doubt that Jesus himself would applaud Orban’s use of the word
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Kim Lawler – Seeing the Mission of God in Taiwan
For the past four years, NOCBC has led a team to conduct two weeks of VBS in the eastern province of Hualien, Taiwan. The team serves at the Faith, Hope, and Love Youth Academy for the first week of VBS. This academy is home to 40 boys, ages 8-18, who
