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Newsjournal of the Baptist State Convention of Michigan | December 2024 | Volume 68, Number 12
Meredith Flynn
May 12 min read
Slumps need good teammates
Is it possible to start a season already in a slump? The trees and temperatures are signaling spring, but winter’s slowness still has a...
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Tim Patterson
May 12 min read
False advertising
PLYMOUTH – It seems as though almost every day someone is claiming fantastic benefits from using their product, procedure, or following a...
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Tony Lynn
May 13 min read
Accelerate gospel movement
PLYMOUTH – “Accelerate Gospel movement,” are three words worth remembering! With 10 million Michiganders surrounding us and an estimated...
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Baptist Beacon
May 14 min read
What does it take to revitalize a church?
WINDSOR, ONTARIO – Pastors Bobby Owings and Brian Moss share a fondness for going to places no one else wants to go. For them, it meant...
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Emily Guyer
May 16 min read
Christ: a mother’s only hope
A Mother’s Day Encouragement ANN ARBOR – Mother’s Day is a complicated holiday. There is a lot of joy wrapped up into the gift of...
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Gary Maxey
May 13 min read
Church revitalization
PLYMOUTH – Church Revitalization is the process of leading a plateaued or declining church toward a healthy growth, which begins when...
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Kay Elliot
May 13 min read
Echoes of a godly mother
CLINTON TOWNSHIP – My momma was raised in rural Georgia in a sharecropper’s family who picked cotton. This was at the end of the Great...
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Tara Ford
May 13 min read
Embracing motherhood: a tribute to sacrificial love
NEW HUDSON – Unsteadily, she lowered herself to the floor and shakily took a pitcher of warm water and poured it into a ceramic basin....
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Phyllis Harbaugh
May 12 min read
Claiming His promises and a life verse for my children
NORTH STREET – My journey into motherhood started with the words, “You’re going to have a baby.” The joy and excitement of that moment...
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Mike Meade
May 13 min read
The unconventional will of God
MONROE – “Well, be safe getting home you guys. I don’t know what I’m going to do, but hopefully I’m not stuck!” These were the school...
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Julie Walters
May 12 min read
WMU Missions Celebration brings ‘Joy’ to Indy
BIRMINGHAM, AL – (April 22, 2024) – Gather your friends and race to Indianapolis this June for the WMU Missions Celebration just prior to...
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Erin Roach
May 14 min read
JSU student from Nigeria embraced by area church
JACKSONVILLE, AL – It was a rainy Sunday morning, and Olalere Bolaji Funsho had made his way from Nigeria to the Atlanta airport and then...
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Jay Hardwick
May 13 min read
First-Person: Generation next is generation now
I remember hearing the late Michael Catt, long-time pastor of Sherwood Baptist in Albany, Ga., say many times, “Whoever wants the next...
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Rick Lance
Apr 13 min read
First-Person: Jeff Iorg, a difference maker
Jeff Iorg has been unanimously elected as the new president and CEO of the SBC Executive Committee. In one way, this is not a surprising...
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Ron Sego
Apr 13 min read
A different day
HARVEY – One would have to be living under a rock somewhere to not realize we are living in a different day. We are living in a day where...
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Mark Hallock
Apr 15 min read
Determining the readiness of a church to be revitalized: Key questions to ask
Here is the reality: Many declining churches recognize they are struggling and in need of help. They know things are not looking up and...
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Karen Blanchard
Apr 13 min read
Every season matters
SHELBY TOWNSHIP – Don’t you love the first few warm days of spring after the long, cold, and dreary winter? I moved to Michigan from...
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Tim Patterson
Apr 14 min read
Eclipsing our fears
PLYMOUTH – A total solar eclipse will take place at the Moon's ascending node on Monday, April 8, 2024, visible across North America, and...
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Tony Lynn
Apr 17 min read
Michigan’s diverse family
PLYMOUTH – I am halfway through exploring all of the language groups within our Michigan Baptist Church family, and I am loving every...
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Garth Leno
Apr 14 min read
The pandemic changed my church
WINDSOR, ONTARIO – Most of our churches changed significantly due to the Covid pandemic. It seemed like everything shifted overnight for...
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