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For almost 170 years, Southern Baptists have sought to proclaim the Gospel of Jesus Christ to all people everywhere. The Southern Baptist Convention was formed with a Gospel vision. Its founding charter identifies its singular focus: ...for the purpose of eliciting, combining, and directing the energies of the Baptist denomination of Christians, for the propagation of the Gospel... Read More...
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Karen Pearce, a Southern Baptist missionary, shares about the sad pilgrimage of thousands of people leaving Venezuela out of desperation and hunger. She also discovers how the Gospel continues to thrive through adversity.
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Today's Devotion
From the Book of Jonah:
Jonah commissioned; his effort to avoid God's will; prayer of Jonah; second commission; Nineveh repents; Jonah's displeasure.
For I knew that Thou art a gracious God, and merciful, slow to anger, and of great kindness (Jonah 4:2).
Nineveh, the city where God told Jonah to preach was the capital of the Assyrian Empire, which at that time, dominated the world. It had oppressed many people, including the Jews. So Jonah was probably delighted with the good news that the city would be destroyed. - Continue...
