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Facebook expands church plant's community connections
Everyone craves connections -- a truth that Living Stone Community Church has embraced by using Facebook to minister to their community. Facebook can be an important tool in getting to know neighbors and pointing them to Christ, said Ali Clayton, wife of church planter Whitney Clayton. Read More...
Church with a food truck worships in parking lot
Jayson Albers, who grew up in a Baptist church, made a living for a long time as an opening shift supervisor for Ryan's Steakhouse. Then life came crashing down -- his wife and son died in an accident, something which he speaks little about. One thing led to another and Albers started living in a tent in 2000 near the railroad tracks in Birmingham, Ala. Read More...
Gray Allison, theology leader in SBC resurgence, dies
B. Gray Allison, who gave theological strength to the Conservative Resurgence in the Southern Baptist Convention as the founder of Mid-America Baptist Theological Seminary, died Feb. 12 in Memphis, Tenn. He was 94. Read More...
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10-year-old advances SBC ministry day
Ten-year-old Zak McCullar addressed the Southern Baptist Convention Executive Committee in support of his recommendation to add a Children's Ministry Day to the SBC calendar of events.
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Today's Devotion
From the Book of Numbers:
Your heart will break as disobedience by two men of God results in a terrible judgment. Note the difference between the Law and grace which comes through Christ. You will find two deaths recorded here, as well as a nation sealing its own fate by refusing to help the people of God. How gloriously Christ is typified twice in today's reading.
And Moses lifted up his hand, and with his rod he smote the rock twice: and the water came out abundantly (Num. 20:11).
In the first year of the nation's wanderings in the wilderness, God commanded Moses to smite the rock, and an abundance of water came forth (Ex. 17:1-6). The rock was a symbol of Christ. They drank of that spiritual Rock that followed them: and that Rock was Christ (I Cor. 10:4). Just as there could be no water until the rock was smitten, there could be no indwelling of the Holy Spirit until Christ died. - Continue...
