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Mark 8:34-38

Remember the Ukrainian born comedian Yakov Smirnoff who began his career in Russia, then migrated to the United States? He’s actually still performing in Branson. When Smirnoff first came to the US he said that he was not prepared for the incredible variety of instant products available in grocery stores. “On my first shopping trip, I saw powered milk. You just add water, and you get…

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Growing in Discipleship

Recently I read about a young man in the Army who during Operation Desert Storm was called to go to Iraq, when our nation declared war on Saddam Hussein. However, the young man didn’t want to go. He explained that he hadn’t joined the army to go war. He joined because of the benefits: the pay, the college tuition, the insurance, and hopefully some travel. He just didn’t want to travel to Iraq and…

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SBC Presidential Candidates Greear & Hemphill Call for Prayer, Grace &civility Amid Transitions

Amid two Southern Baptist Convention entity leadership searches and upcoming national SBC elections, both SBC presidential candidates have issued a joint call for prayer, grace and civility. J.D. Greear and Ken Hemphill, both tapped as 2018 nominees for SBC president, made the joint appeal as the International Mission Board (IMB) and the SBC Executive Committee (EC) are tasked with finding new entity leaders. In the midst of the entity searches, Southern Baptists will elect national officers at the SBC 2018 Annual Meeting June 12-13 in Dallas. "After speaking w/my friend @kenhemphill today, we'd like to call all Southern Baptists to act w/civility & integrity toward one another & to join us in praying for the entity transitions ahead & for the upcoming #SBC18 presidential election," Greear, pastor of the Summit Church in Raleigh-Durham, N.C., tweeted April 5. "In a phone conversation with friend @jdgreear we agreed to invite Southern Baptists to pray for leaders in transition, search committees, that our respective supporters will speak with grace and civility so we can leave Dallas revived, unified and focused on God's kingdom," Hemphill, an administrator at North Greenville University in Tigerville, S.C., followed April 6. SBC President Steve Gaines, pastor of Bellevue Baptist Church in Cordova, Tenn., retweeted both messages. The original posts drew more than 1,000 likes and were retweeted hundreds of times. IMB President David Platt announced Feb. 12 his return to the full-time pastorate, remaining in office while a 16-person search committee seeks a replacement. At the EC, executive vice president D. August (Augie) Boto was named EC interim president April 4 as the EC readies to name a search committee to replace Frank S. Page, who unexpectedly left the EC on March 27. See related Baptist Press story.

"These are difficult times for us all," Greear told BP today (April 9), "but we must lock arms and boldly go forward to reach our world with the hope of introducing them to our Savior."

Click here to read more. Source: Baptist Press