Less than a mile separates the movie theater in suburban Denver where 12 people were killed and Mississippi Avenue Baptist Church. While the church has offered public prayer services and counseling since the tragedy, pastor Mitch Hamilton sees Mississippi Avenue members as being a key facet of reaching out to […]
Daily Archives: July 23, 2012
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A Southern Baptist Chaplain and U.S. Army captain is using every bit of the grief counseling experience he gained in Afghanistan to console the family and loved ones of a Naval officer and friend killed in Friday’s horrific mass murder at an Aurora, Colo. movie theater.
Former presidential candidate and Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee says he is “incensed” at the way Chick-fil-A has been treated in recent days, and he is launching a nationwide Chick-fil-A Appreciation Day for Aug. 1, urging people to visit the restaurant that day or to make their support known via social […]
Hundreds of worshippers attended Dripping Spring Baptist Church in rural Olmstead, Ky., to hear a sermon from Fred Luter, the first African American to lead the Southern Baptist Convention. Among worshippers were a 75-year-old grandmother who rushed to make the service with her two great-granddaughters in tow, and an 83-year-old […]
High school students gifted in leading worship enhanced their abilities at Resonate, a worship arts camp at Oklahoma Baptist University. Students at the camp joined in musical and worship media skill sessions led by adult worship leaders and learned to gain confidence when leading.
Columnist and professor Owen Strachan says Christians cannot opt out of the cultural war and the debate over gay marriage and that they now have only two options: capitulate to the culture or challenge it.