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DALLAS (ABP) -- A Dallas church has changed its website to identify
itself as inclusive of varied sexual orientations -- a move that
potentially could put the congregation at odds with the Baptist General
Convention of Texas, which previously has excluded another church over its embrace of openly gay leaders.
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BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (ABP) -- The leader of the Alabama state affiliate of the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship will leave that post at the end of May to return to local-church ministry after a Texas church voted to call Brent McDougal as pastor March 7.
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ATLANTA (ABP) -- Bucking a trend in many churches to eschew four-part harmonies for praise choruses projected on a screen, a new hymnal released March 8 seeks to introduce both old favorites and lesser-known new compositions to a new generation of Baptist congregations.
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(ABP) -- Why is a plot of land smaller than New Jersey the stage for so much world history? I am leading study tours in Israel and Egypt as this column is being posted. This is my 12th time to travel in the Middle East. Each visit I marvel at the diminutive scale of Israel and think of the armies through history that have marched across her borders and fought over her lands.
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FALLS CHURCH, Va. (ABP) -- About 250 Baptist churches in Chile were destroyed in the powerful earthquake that shook the country Feb. 27, according to the Baptist World Alliance.
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MARYVILLE, Ill. (ABP) -- March 8, 2009, started out as a fairly normal Sunday for Cindy Winters. Her husband, Fred, got up early to preach the 8:15 a.m. service at First Baptist Church in Maryville, Ill. One of their daughters rode with her father because she was working in the nursery that morning. Cindy and their other daughter came later. Then the nightmare began.
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ATLANTA (ABP) -- A new hymnal for Baptist churches in the works for four years premiered in Atlanta March 7. Choirs from five churches gathered for a Sunday afternoon-service unveiling the Celebrating Grace Hymnal, a joint initiative of Mercer University's Townsend-McAfee Institute of Church Music and Mercer University Press.
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(ABP) – One of my prayers for this season of Lent was to be more intentional about looking for Jesus in unexpected faces and places. Lo and behold, Jesus showed up for dinner.
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