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By Thom Rainer One of the most common responses we receive at ThomRainer.com is something like this statement: “You can’t run your church like a business.” I get it. Our goal is to glorify God. Our goal is to make disciples. Our goal is to be faithful to God’s Word. Our goal is not to […]
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If you’ve taken a look at our website in the past week, you’ve noticed the redesign for The Christian Index. Yes, it’s a biased opinion, but I love it. And judging from the response I’ve received, many of you feel the same. Thank you so much for the emails and texts of feedback you’ve sent our way. […]
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Editor’s note: Sunday, Sept. 8 is Baptism Day in the Southern Baptist Convention. For resources, go to namb.net/baptism-sunday. One of the beautiful things I like about Washington, D.C., is the number of museums located in the city. There are all kinds of museums: the Air & Space Museum, the Newseum, the National Archives Building […]
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Battle fatigue – it is a real thing for every soldier, and I believe it is a real thing for every Christian called by God to be a soldier. I do not want to say the battles any of us as Christians face are on the same level of a soldier in a war; nothing […]
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“Every immigrant has a story, and as followers of Christ we should have an intense desire to know their story.”
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“I have seen firsthand the missional impact of state convention ministries.”
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“…work is not, primarily, a thing one does to live, but the thing one lives to do.”
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Above: Marc Ira Hooks stops to talk with one of thousands of kids in Vacation Bible School – this one holding a popsicle – while shooting the CBA Church Network’s series “The VBS Road Trip” on FacebookLIVE this summer, encompassing 24 churches and traveling more than 1,000 miles in Collin County, Texas. BAPTIST PRESS There […]
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“In a wild-west, anything goes, high turnover context such as exists in the SBC, interim pastors are vitally important to local church ministry.”
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It’s not just the return of football; it’s the return of high school football.
