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Newsjournal of the Baptist State Convention of Michigan | December 2024 | Volume 68, Number 12
ERLC Staff
Dec 1, 20233 min read
The life-saving legacy of the Psalm 139 Project
A powerful, though often overlooked method for helping protect preborn life is to provide a woman in an unplanned pregnancy a “window”...
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Scott Barkley
Dec 1, 20233 min read
‘International member care’ helps churches stay connected to missionaries
HELEN, GA (BP) – Missionaries are rightly celebrated and honored prior to leaving for the field. However, the challenges of settling into...
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Karen L. Willoughby
Dec 1, 20234 min read
Proven leader shares wisdom in reaching Native Americans
OKLAHOMA CITY, OK (BP) – SBC Statesman Emerson Falls has developed a missiological strategy for reaching Native Americans with God’s...
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Diana Chandler
Dec 1, 20233 min read
Christians in Sudan may face Sharia law as oppression overtakes Sahel
KHARTOUM, SUDAN (BP) – A return to Sharia Law might be in store for Sudan as civil war nears its 10th month there, the U.S. Commission on...
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Timothy Cockes
Dec 1, 20234 min read
ERLC urges rescindment of proposed LGBTQ+ foster care regulation
NASHVILLE, TN (BP) – The Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission has released a letter urging the U.S. Department of Health and Human...
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Tony Lynn
Nov 13, 20233 min read
BSCM Annual Meeting: Patterson announces retirement date, Bambi sale postponed
PLYMOUTH – Executive Director-Treasurer, Tim Patterson, of the Baptist State Convention of Michigan (BSCM) publicly announced his...
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Chris Ridler
Nov 1, 20233 min read
Gravy and gratitude
EATON RAPIDS – On Thanksgiving day of 2020, I cooked my first turkey. I spent the night before seasoning the turkey, injecting it with...
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Emily Guyer
Nov 1, 20236 min read
When the idea of discipling another woman stresses you out
ANN ARBOR – “There is no way I am qualified for that.” “What in the world would I do or say?” “What if she saw the mess of my life?”...
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Diana Chandler
Nov 1, 20233 min read
‘Value of belonging’ at CP-fueled retreat for Black pastors
ASHEVILLE, NC (BP) – For Charles Owusu, founding pastor of the Ghanaian majority Word of Life Baptist Church in Lithia Springs, Ga., the...
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Mark Maynard
Nov 1, 20234 min read
Never too late: A new purpose on mission field for 70-year-old woman
BARDSTOWN, KY (KT) – When Sue Foster’s husband died two years ago, she lost more than her best friend. She lost her purpose. Len Foster...
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Tim Patterson
Nov 1, 20234 min read
Thankful, grateful and blessed
PLYMOUTH – I am truly a creature of habit. Each morning after I rise, I make my way to my basement man cave where I shower, shave,...
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Tony Lynn
Nov 1, 20238 min read
Cigarettes to gratitude
PLYMOUTH – Many of us have similar Thanksgiving traditions that can be worshipful. After scanning the four family-centered rituals, would...
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Mike Durbin
Nov 1, 20233 min read
Pray for God’s bold strength
“For this reason, I bow my knees before the Father, from whom every family in heaven and on earth derives its name, that He would grant...
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Garth Leno
Nov 1, 20233 min read
Hear God’s voice
WINDSOR, ONTARIO – The voice of God came to Jesus at all the great moments of his life. It came at his baptism, when he began the work...
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Karen Blanchard
Nov 1, 20234 min read
God is always working
SHELBY TOWNSHIP – Years ago, I injured my back when I was reaching to throw something away, my chair rolled out from under me and I fell...
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Andrew Honeycutt
Nov 1, 20232 min read
Feed My sheep
He said to him the third time, “Simon, son of John, do you love me?” Peter was grieved because he said to him the third time, “Do you...
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Dale Frye
Nov 1, 20233 min read
Is thankfulness enough?
KALAMAZOO – As fall approaches, we look in anticipation of the beautiful array of colors, crisp air, and of course, football. There’s...
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Ben Hernandez
Nov 1, 20234 min read
Grace and gratitude
HOLLAND – Gratitude is a universal virtue. In every age and every culture, people enjoy being on the receiving end of gratitude. Even...
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Clark Cothern
Nov 1, 20233 min read
Thankful for a pandemic?!
YPSILANTI – Who would have thought we would thank God for a pandemic? I don’t have to tell you what it was like. You lived it. The...
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Tim Ellsworth
Nov 1, 20233 min read
Rangers standout rookie Carter proclaims ‘Jesus Won’
ELIZABETHTON, TN (BP) – Jason Holly, the youth minister at First Baptist Church in Elizabethton, remembers when Texas Rangers rookie...
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