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An appeal to rightly apply 2 Chronicles 7:14
Is it a misapplication of Scripture for pastors to use 2 Chronicles 7:14 to call American Christians to repent? No, writes Steve Gaines. Read More
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INDEPENDENCE DAY: 'We face another challenging hour'
Doug Carver recounts Southern Baptists' longstanding wartime ministry to members of the armed forces. And now, he points to another critical hour to remain "faithful stewards of the freedom we've been granted by the men and women who have, through their brave and sacrificial service, kept America the land of the free and the brave." Read MorePhoto by Adam Covington
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'We the People' stirs state legislator's loyalty
BARDSTOWN, Ky. (BP) -- Only a few people recognized the words written more than 150 years ago when David Floyd read them at Bardstown Baptist Church during a God and Country emphasis.Submitted photoCiting a call to "public humiliation, prayer, and fasting" to be observed by all Americans, the state representative and military veteran shared these words of proclamation to his church:
"Whereas it is fit and becoming in all people at all times to acknowledge and revere the supreme government of God, to bow in humble submission to His chastisements, to confess and deplore their sins and transgressions in the full conviction that the fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom, and to pray with all fervency and contrition for the pardon of their past offenses and for a blessing upon their present and prospective action." Read More