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Encouraging Words

Trusting God in dark days

April 22, 2020 By Adron Robinson

Encouraging Words

Read: Psalm 25 When facing the dark days of life, to whom can you trust your soul? We don’t know the exact circumstances of this psalm, but we know that David wrote it at a time when he was being attacked by his enemies. The attacks left him isolated from friends, hated by foes, and […]

An invitation to pause

April 20, 2020 By Meredith Flynn

Encouraging Words

About a week into our current reality, I noticed a shift in news coverage I was seeing about Coronavirus. Headlines that read, “America’s way of life is over,” and the like gave way to “Americans hit pause” and others that seemed to indicate the country is assuming a still, watchful position. After several jolting days […]

The wonder of his love

April 17, 2020 By Dewayne Taylor

Encouraging Words

Read: Acts 3:1-10 He was born broken and broke. One caused the other. From birth, he was unable to walk, and in the days of the New Testament, there was little hope. So, the broken were also poor—very poor. Their lives consisted of sitting somewhere and begging. People would walk by, looking down on them, […]

Oh my soul

April 15, 2020 By Leah Honnen

Encouraging Words

Wait for the Lord; be strong and take courage; wait for the Lord! (Psalm 27:14) Real talk here: I just took a music-less bath in the middle of the day. I don’t know about you, but I treat baths like a spa treatment. I only take one every few months. I use bubble bath. I […]

God’s work in adversity

April 13, 2020 By Sammy Simmons

Encouraging Words

Romans 5:2b-5 “Even when I don’t see it, you’re working. Even when I don’t feel it, you’re working. You never stop, you never stop working.” These words are lyrics to the song “Waymaker,” which has been on my heart over the past few weeks. My heart continues to be reminded that God often works in the unseen […]

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Paul Cooper

What’s greater than independence? Hebrews 10:19-25

Paul Cooper

We got news from my sister in New Mexico, and my brother, Dave, immediately called me. He wanted to see her, but the 20-hour drive was too hard to do alone. It would be easier with his brother. We could share the load. Even so, we would spend more than half our time on the […]

George

Our nation’s half-celebration at 250

Eric Reed

During these red, white, and blue months, YouTube keeps sending me a video clip. It’s King George’s solo from the musical “Hamilton.” Amid endless rapping and stamping of boots and swishing of tailcoats by Founding Fathers, a lone figure walks slowly to center stage, decked in satin knee breeches, ermine cape, and a crown. And […]

Our new open door

Scott Foshie

Could it be that Jesus has opened wide a new door of shared ministry and missions for Southern Baptists to walk through together? That’s the question that continues permeating my mind after our time together in Orlando. We need to remember we ‘have but little power’ in ourselves. Southern Baptists have always found themselves called […]

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Mindy Cobb’s endless summer

Illinois Baptist Staff

Mindy Cobb moved to Chicago with her husband, Lindsay, nearly 50 years ago to be a part of a church plant and hasn’t looked back. In Longevity, a collection of essays by Nathan Carter, Cobb shared she originally planned to give God one summer of her life, but he wanted the whole thing. Out of […]

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Illinois State Capitol

New Illinois laws raise concerns for Baptists

Lisa Misner

Springfield | The spring session of the Illinois General Assembly passed multiple bills that conflict with the biblical values of Illinois Baptists. Some were signed into law by Gov. J.B. Pritzker in late June: – HB 4834, the Prescription Monitoring Program, removed testosterone, estrogen, mifepristone and misoprostol from the Illinois Prescription Monitoring Program. The law […]

World Cup visitors, America’s 250th celebration reminders of ‘how good we have it’

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Mission

“While we have not yet arrived at the destination we envision, I believe we are clearly headed in the right direction,” said IMB President Paul Chitwood to trustees in the May 22 plenary session. IMB Photo

IMB trustees appoint new missionaries, elect first woman chair

Leslie Caldwell

Richmond | International Mission Board trustees approved 65 fully funded missionaries for appointment during their May 21-22 meeting near Richmond, Virginia. The missionaries approved for appointment will be recognized during a Sending Celebration on Tuesday, June 10, at 10:08 a.m. CDT in conjunction with the Southern Baptist Convention annual meeting in Dallas. The event will […]

Metro East church plant hosts multiplication meeting

Sallateeska baptism demonstrates SBC connections

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