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SBC trustee system stable in spite of Annual Meeting cancellation
If history is any indication, the Southern Baptist Convention's trustee system will continue without a snag despite the cancellation of the 2020 annual meeting due to COVID-19. The last annual meeting cancellations, during World War II, were followed by a boom of evangelism and discipleship resourced by the convention's entities. Read More...
'Chair for one': Creating community for singles as onsite worship resumes
Singles ministry consultant Paul "P.J." Dunn has visited several churches planning to resume onsite worship during the COVID-19 pandemic. Read More...
IMB Student Team introduces Stateside Summer initiative
The IMB Student Team's Stateside Summer initiative empowers students to reach the nations this summer without leaving the U.S. Students will participate in missions activities, learn about unreached and unengaged people groups, connect with missionaries and share the Gospel with their family, friends and in their communities. Read More...
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Confederate monuments' removal praised by Southern Baptists
Nearly two weeks after a black man, George Floyd, died in police custody after a white officer used a knee to pin his neck to the ground for several minutes, Confederate statues are being removed in several states. Several Southern Baptist leaders, who in 2016 decried display of the Confederate flag, are applauding the fall of the Confederate tributes.
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Today's Devotion
From the Book of Nehemiah:
Nehemiah's prayer for Jerusalem; Nehemiah permitted to go to Jerusalem; walls rebuilt.
Then I told them of the hand of my God which was good upon me; as also the king's words that he had spoken unto me. And they said, Let us rise up and build. So they strengthened their hands for this good work (Neh. 2:18).
It was an answer to prayer and fasting that the king of Persia overruled a formal decree that this city (Jerusalem) be not builded. Up to this time the Medes and Persians had never reversed a decree (compare Ezra 4:21 with Dan. 6:8). The Persian king not only reversed the decree, but he appointed Nehemiah governor over Jerusalem and commissioned him to build the walls (Neh. 2:6-8). - Continue...
