Ninety-year-old Thomas Thornton of Muscle Shoals, pastor of Abbie Baptist Church in Leighton, has been in ministry 54 years and says ministry is the “best thing that ever happened to me and my family.”
Police in China raided a church’s summer youth camp and detained four Christian adults for “carrying out activities in the name of an illegal social organization.”
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Several thousand students packed Neville Arena at Auburn University on Sept. 12 for a worship event at Neville Arena and ended the night with a spontaneous baptism service at a lake near the Red Barn on campus.
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Madison Gardner’s personal experience with miscarriage inspired her to start In His Hands, a pregnancy loss support group at Women’s Resource Center in Mobile.
Barbara Cross, whose father, John, was the pastor of 16th Street Baptist Church when it was bombed on Sept. 15, 1963, said the trauma of that terrible day had an effect on her family but taught her important lessons too.
The fact of justification means that as Christians, we have no basis for entertaining guilt feelings toward God. It goes deeper than how we feel.
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