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2 months ago | 
baptistpress.com | Mark Maynard |Scott Barkley |Cameron James Crabtree |Tom Strode
Metadata:Format(s): Text ArticlesShare this post: It happens to most of us. Ministry gets really hard, and we get wounded. Our wounds then become scars, on which other scars later develop. If we’re not alert and self-aware, our heart gets hardened. Be aware of these signs of increasing hardening in your life:You want to spend less time with your church members. You used to enjoy their company, but not as much anymore. You start looking for the negative in most situations.
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2 months ago | 
baptistpress.com | Mark Maynard |Scott Barkley |Cameron James Crabtree |Tom Strode
SEATTLE (BP) – A federal judge in Seattle issued a preliminary injunction blocking President Donald Trump’s executive order to suspend refugee admissions, saying the president likely exceeded his authority. Three faith-based refugee service agencies – Church World Service, Lutheran Community Services Northwest and Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society (HIAS) – and nine individual refugees sued the Trump administration after the government froze funding for refugee admissions.
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2 months ago | 
baptistpress.com | Mark Maynard |Scott Barkley |Cameron James Crabtree |Tom Strode
Metadata:Topic(s): National NewsFormat(s): Text ArticlesShare this post: WASHINGTON (AP) — The number of Americans who identify as Christian has declined steadily for years, but that drop shows signs of slowing, according to a new survey Wednesday from the Pew Research Center. The Religious Landscape Study finds 62 percent of U.S. adults call themselves Christians.
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2 months ago | 
baptistpress.com | Mark Maynard |Scott Barkley |Cameron James Crabtree |Tom Strode
Metadata:Topic(s): Disaster ReliefFormat(s): Text ArticlesShare this post: PIKEVILLE, Ky. – If the old expression “cleanliness is next to godliness” is true, then Kentucky Baptist Disaster Relief volunteers are offering lots of godliness to Kentuckians hard hit by recent flooding. KYDR veteran Glenn Hickey is overseeing those units and a whole lot more this week. “I’m on everything duty today,” he said, while running errands in the area Feb. 25.
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2 months ago | 
baptistpress.com | Scott Barkley |Cameron James Crabtree |Keila Diaz |Tom Strode
Metadata:Topic(s): Evangelism, North American Mission BoardFormat(s): Text ArticlesShare this post: DOUGLAS, Ga. (BP) – Kevin Bounds is familiar with the concept that every little bit counts. About five years ago he stepped on a scale and a number appeared he wasn’t happy about. Then 38 years old, Bounds was a jogger but his knees and hips weren’t agreeing with that form of exercise, so he took up cycling. The lifelong Coffee County resident rode throughout the area.
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2 months ago | 
baptistpress.com | Cameron James Crabtree |Keila Diaz |Charles Jones |Scott Barkley
Metadata:Topic(s): SportsFormat(s): Text ArticlesShare this post: BUTLER, Tenn. (BP) – Pastor Donald Winters is accustomed to the extreme, whether it involves alligators, rattlesnakes or voluntarily risking hypothermia in icy waters every other weekday.
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2 months ago | 
baptistpress.com | Cameron James Crabtree |Keila Diaz |Charles Jones |Scott Barkley
Metadata:Topic(s): SBC NewsFormat(s): Text ArticlesShare this post: GRESHAM, Ore. – Northwest Baptist Convention messengers convened Monday (Feb. 24) for a special called meeting to elect Lance Caddel, the NWBC’s director of evangelism and church health since 2022, as the convention’s next executive director-treasurer.
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2 months ago | 
baptistpress.com | Cameron James Crabtree |Keila Diaz |Charles Jones |Scott Barkley
Metadata:Topic(s): AbortionFormat(s): Text ArticlesShare this post: WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court refused Monday to hear a pair of cases from abortion opponents who say laws limiting anti-abortion demonstrations near clinics violate their First Amendment rights. The majority did not explain their reasoning for turning down the appeals, as is typical, but two conservative justices, Samuel Alito and Clarence Thomas, disagreed.
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Nov 22, 2024 | 
baptistpress.com | Cameron James Crabtree |Scott Barkley |Kie Bowman |Tom Strode
Metadata:Event(s): 2024 Baptist State Convention MeetingsTopic(s): SBC NewsFormat(s): Text ArticlesShare this post: Northwest Baptists remember ‘mission of the Gospel’By Cameron CrabtreeCENTRALIA, Wash. (BP) – Messengers attending the Northwest Baptist Convention annual meeting welcomed more than a dozen churches into the multi-state network, adopted an almost $4,050,000 budget for 2025 and reelected three Oregon pastors to serve as convention officers over the next year. Convened Nov.
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Nov 28, 2023 | 
baptistpress.com | Todd Deaton |Cameron James Crabtree |Timothy Cockes |Scott Barkley
Metadata:Event(s): 2023 Baptist State Convention MeetingsTopic(s): SBC NewsFormat(s): Text ArticlesShare this post: SCBaptists convicted by passionate pleas: ‘Let’s go’By Todd Deaton/Baptist CourierCOLUMBIA, S.C. (BP) – With a sequential thematic appeal of “Let’s Go,” messengers to the 203rd Annual Meeting of the South Carolina Baptist Convention Nov. 13-14 were exhorted to move beyond giving, praying and sending to personal engagement in missions.
