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TAMPA (FBW)-The executive committee of the Tampa Bay Baptist Association voted unanimously to call Michael Kahn, 54, as its new director of missions Sept. 10. Kahn currently is single adult minister at Idlewild Baptist Church in Lutz, where he has served on staff 19 years.
Kahn begins Oct. 1. He follows Tom Biles who has served since 1993 the 101-year-old association of 180 Southern Baptist churches affiliated with the Florida Baptist State Convention. Biles, who will continue to serve his second term as a member of the Southern Baptist Convention Executive Committee, announced last year his intention to retire as DOM Oct. 31.
ORANGE PARK (FBW) – The education building of Island View Baptist Church in Orange Park was damaged by a suspected arsonist early Sept. 16, causing $35,000 in damages, according to several news accounts.
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“Will you sit on the sidelines or will you get into the game?” Grudem asked. “I urge you as pastors, you have a biblical responsibility to encourage people to seek to influence government for good.”
WAKE FOREST, N.C. (BP)—Today it is popular among those promoting same-sex marriage to say that Jesus never addressed the issue, that He was silent on the subject.
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From this port more than three decades ago 125,000 Cuban exiles boarded a flotilla of 1,700 boats to escape the hardships and religious persecution pressed upon them by Fidel Castro’s
American presidential elections are the world’s most public display of the democratic process. The global media follow the American elections with a fervor that is easily understood—what happens in an American presidential election matters all over the world. Our presidential campaigns are political pageants and electoral dynamos. But, as any honest, thoughtful observer will understand, our elections are also great worldview exercises. We reveal our worldview by our vote.
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Suppose I told you that there was an institution where the mentally ill “interminably wail, scream and bang on the walls of their cells” and “mutilate their bodies with razors, [and] shards of glass?” Where inmates ... “carry on delusional conversations with voices they hear in their heads,” and no one does anything to help.
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Jerry Vines, Bill Stafford, Bailey Smith and Junior Hill—longtime evangelists and former pastors in their seventies—have unique approaches to preaching and different personalities and yet every one of them was “right on target” according to Keith Russell, senior pastor of Westside Baptist Church.
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A utility player for the Tampa Bay Rays, Zobrist has established himself as one of the game’s most versatile players, starting every position except for pitcher and catcher during his seven years with the team. From one game to the next, Zobrist has seldom known where he was going to play—only that his team needed him to fill that role.
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“She reached her arms out to me, and I held her for an hour,” Denaham recalled. “I wondered if she had ever been held in her life.”
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Tibetans are known for their resistance to the Gospel, International Mission Board representative Tal Bratcher* tells those who’ve come to work with him.
As we complete our study of Matthew’s account of the Sermon on the Mount, we cannot miss the radical change in the mood. We are looking at nothing less, in my judgment, than the first evangelistic sermon of the new age inaugurated by Jesus. In the earlier lessons, He set forth principles for followers to practice in worshiping God. Now, He is calling for a decision to enlist new followers. No longer would adherents look to Abraham and his descendants as heirs of the promises.
The recounting of the meeting between Jesus and the Samaritan woman is memorable for several reasons. For one, He spoke to her one of the three summary statements about the nature of God. He told her that “God is a Spirit,” or simply, He is Spirit (v. 24). The other two are “God is love” (1 Jn. 4:8, 16) and “God is light” (1 Jn. 4:5). As we shall see, Jesus was also preparing the apostles for an extension of the effort of His commandment in Acts 1:8, the inclusion of Samaria as the second stage of world evangelization. Our main focus relates to His leading a sinner to confess Him as the Messiah.