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The Southern Baptist Convention (SBC) is a fellowship of over 47,500 Baptist churches and another 4,500 mission churches (churches that have not yet established their autonomy as self-governing congregations) scattered across the United States and its territories. Read More...
FIRST-PERSON: Looking for community?
There's a little watering hole on the way to my sister's old place. As soon as I take the exit off the highway, I know I have 10 miles of curvy country back roads lined with canopies of evergreens before I reach it. Read More...
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Zoning restriction stymies church's expanded ministry
A Maryland church files suit over a city zoning restriction thwarting the use of their storefront building for worship in a case reflecting land-use battles common between congregations and governments.rn
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Today's Devotion
From the Book of Psalms:
The all-seeing providence of God; David's prayer of deliverance from Saul; comfort in prayer; David's prayer for mercy in judgment.
Search me, O God, and know my heart: try me, and know my thoughts: And see if there be any wicked way in me, and lead me in the way everlasting (Ps. 139:23-24).
The psalmist prayed to the great Revealer of hearts. He was aware that everything in his life, both past and present, was an open book to God, and he knew that it was next to impossible for him to see all the evils of his own heart. But the Lord wants us to know that He that searcheth the hearts knoweth what is the mind of the Spirit, because He maketh intercession for the saints according to the will of God (Rom. 8:27). - Continue...
