Sid Nichols, retired Alabama Baptist pastor and director of missions, died today (Dec. 28). He served 30 years as a pastor then 15 as director of missions for Calhoun Baptist Association before retiring from full-time ministry in 2016.
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A Somali woman fled for her life, leaving behind her two young children, because her husband beat her for placing her faith in Christ Jesus.
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“I have a big heart for the broken, the prodigals and the outcasts, for I have been all those things, but I remember the love of a Father who never once turned His back on me,” writes Shea Lowery of Entrusted Hope Ministries.
Mazzawi described the noise and the fear she particularly faced serving at the northern border, “but the thing that really helped me is that I believe that our heavenly Father is with us.”
Here’s the Bible Studies for Life Sunday School Lesson for Dec. 29, written by Adam Winn, Ph.D., Chair and Professor, Department of Biblical and Religious Studies at Samford University.
