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New neighbors moved in across the street from another couple, and the wife started watching this new pair. Every evening, she looked out the window and noticed the husband arrive home after work. She couldn’t miss the fact that nearly every night, this man would bring home flowers or a little gift for his lady.

Half full or half empty? It has been debated for years and centers around a drinking glass containing water. Some say how you answer that question says a lot about your personality, demeanor, and even how you view life. Are you an optimist, realist, or pessimist? The answer could lie in how you see water in a glass.

God possesses many attributes or characteristics. Perhaps the dominant divine attribute mentioned in Scripture is God’s holiness. Because of our sin, we are separated and have a broken relationship with our Creator.

ALPHARETTA, Ga. – After five years serving as president of Send Relief, Bryant Wright is set to retire at the end of March.

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump on Monday agreed to a 30-day pause on his tariff threats against Mexico and Canada as America's two largest trading partners took steps to appease his concerns about border security and drug trafficking.

DETROIT (AP) — Trae Young made a 23-foot fadeaway with 1.6 seconds left and scored 17 of his 34 points in the fourth quarter, lifting the Atlanta Hawks to a 132-130 win over the Detroit Pistons on Monday night.

CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. — Nearly 800 youth ministers and spouses from 21 different states attended this year’s three-day Conclave conference in Chattanooga last month.

PERRY, Fla. — It was supposed to be a regular Wednesday night service that included a short business meeting at New Home Baptist Church in Perry, but when the testimonies ran long that night, followed by an extended prayer time around the altar, Pastor Dustin Logan could sense God was doing a work within the lives of those gathered.

FORT WORTH, Texas — Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary faculty noted the importance of discipleship as a lifelong journey and the role of biblical counseling in addressing life challenges in a panel discussion held during the seminary’s chapel service Thursday, Jan. 30.

GOMA, Congo (AP) — Hundreds of wounded people have poured into overcrowded hospitals in Goma, a major city in eastern Congo, as fighting rages on between government forces and the Rwanda-backed rebels who seized the city of around 2 million people.

JERUSALEM (AP) — Two weeks after the ceasefire between Hamas and Israel took effect, aid is flooding into the Gaza Strip, bringing relief to a territory suffering from hunger, mass displacement, and devastation following 15 months of war.

DAMASCUS, Syria (AP) — A car bomb exploded on the outskirts of a northern Syrian city on Monday, killing at least 19 people, all but one of them women, and leaving more than a dozen wounded, hospital workers said.

A lawsuit alleging for the first time that people died because of the disastrous 2023 East Palestine train derailment has been filed ahead of Monday's second anniversary of the toxic crash near the Ohio-Pennsylvania border amid a flurry of new litigation.

Jim Shaddix, senior professor of preaching at Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary in Wake Forest, N.C., died Feb. 1 after a battle with cancer. He was 64 years old.

ATLANTA – Homeschool students would have guaranteed access to college admission testing at their local public school under legislation backed by prominent Republican state senators. School districts that offer the SAT, ACT, PSAT/NMSQT, PreACT, or an AP exam would have to post testing dates on their websites and allow students zoned for the school to participate like enrolled students.

PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) — President Donald Trump said Sunday that Americans could feel “some pain” from the emerging trade war triggered by his tariffs against Canada, Mexico, and China, and claimed that Canada would “cease to exist” without its trade surplus with the United States.

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump administration has placed two top security chiefs at the U.S. Agency for International Development on leave after they refused to turn over classified material in restricted areas to Elon Musk's government-inspection teams, a current and a former U.S. official told The Associated Press on Sunday.

KHAN YOUNIS, Gaza Strip (AP) — The ceasefire in Gaza saw its smoothest exchange yet of Israeli hostages for Palestinian prisoners on Saturday, and the crucial Rafah border crossing reopened two days before discussions on the truce’s far more difficult second phase begin.

PANAMA CITY (AP) — U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio brought a warning to Panamanian leader José Raúl Mulino on Sunday: Immediately reduce what President Donald Trump says is Chinese influence over the Panama Canal area or face potential retaliation from the United States.

TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Sunday he will discuss "victory over Hamas,” countering Iran, and expanding diplomatic relations with Arab countries in his meeting with President Donald Trump.

Jesus said, “You are my friends if you do what I command” (John 15:14). All Christians should want to be friends with God. But how good of a friend are we when we sin and grieve the Holy Spirit?

CULLODEN, Ga. — Sounds of praise are echoing again from the former Culloden Baptist Church on Church Street in Culloden. Renamed New Providence Baptist Church of Culloden, the 100-year-old church has reopened and held its first service Sunday, Jan. 26, 2025.

Alcoholism has its claws wrapped tightly around the souls of the small town I grew up in, here in the Amazon region of South America. There are very few people whose lives go untouched by the darkness and destruction it brings. Mario, too, was engulfed in the addiction.

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (KT) — The family of a faculty member at The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary averted a tragedy last weekend, and the providence of God is credited in protecting the five family members and their home.

DALLAS, Texas — Poiema Foundation, a Dallas-area organization focused on human trafficking prevention and survivor care, has been working to educate the public on human trafficking, engage communities, and empower survivors through the work of their safe house since 2012.

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