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First person: Lessons for Christians living with a wartime mentality

July 19, 2025

“Reflecting on our trip, we believe all Christians should live with a wartime mentality. After all, we are in a spiritual war.”

Pastor Connections: Church leadership; salvation & eternity; and more

July 18, 2025

A few tips and more for pastors from pastors and church leaders.

First person: Growing through the dark nights of the soul

July 17, 2025

From time to time, we all experience periods of deep spiritual anguish. John of the Cross (a 6th-century reformer of the Carmelite way of life) called these times the “Dark Night of the Soul.”

First person: Neglected truths on the concept of fasting

July 16, 2025

Through the years, many of us have neglected fasting as a spiritual discipline.

First person: God is moving in Alabama — and here’s why

July 15, 2025

“In a town with a decreasing population, God is moving in a special way,” writes Rob Jackson, director of evangelism and church revitalization, Alabama Baptist State Board of Missions.

What she never imagined: A love story 50 years in the making

July 15, 2025

Sherrill Keown Holloman didn’t expect to fall in love again — not after losing her husband tragically, not after 18 years of carrying on alone, and certainly not with someone she hadn’t seen in 51 years.