Here’s the Explore the Bible Sunday School lesson commentary for August 31, written by Jay T. Robertson, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Systematic Theology, University of Mobile.
In July 1938, Lola Owens walked down the aisle of Harmony Baptist Church in Andalusia, gave her life to Christ and became a church member. And 87 years later, she’s still there. Church members say she’s a “role model” in how to love others.
An unusual text disrupted Richard Bradley’s workout one morning at the family life center at Gardendale First Baptist Church — someone had a 16-foot cross from the former St. Vincent’s Hospital and didn’t know what to do with it.
Church softball leagues aren’t new, but the way First Baptist Church Butler’s started is maybe a little different than most — it started as a Sunday night fellowship opportunity.
I guess, in the moment, it is human nature to want somebody else to blame. We don’t want to blame ourselves. We can’t blame other people — they’d get mad at us.
Since a calling that came at age seventeen, the joy of my life has been training for and working in the local church in order to build up the body of Christ.
In a rare decision, a Pakistani court ordered issuance of a new government identification card to a woman to acknowledge her conversion to Christianity.
Check out these recent headlines, reported by The Baptist Paper.
