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Worldwide Missions

Healthcare for missionaries

by Steve Bender Healthcare for missionaries has been discussed for many years among those of us who serve the missionaries, those who send them, and the missionaries themselves. Because of the extremely high cost involved, […]

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Urban Current

Sin in the City

by Charles Lyons Three teenage boys are shot to death in broad daylight and our city barely sighs.” (Chicago Sun Times, Tuesday, February 24) We’re still reeling from weeks and weeks of the Governor Blagojavich […]

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AfterWords

Mailbox Blessing

R. Albert Mohler Jr. | President | Southern Baptist Theological Seminary President Barack Obama Monday signed an executive order that reverses the Bush administration’s restrictions on federal funding for research that involves the destruction of […]

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On the Table

Hope sure and stedfast

by Keith Bassham At the confluence of several need-based streams, I have settled on the subject of hope for thought and study for the next several days. With the current economic stresses, needs in my […]

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President Perspective

A heart to give

by David Shaffer This is my first opportunity to thank you for the chance to serve the Baptist Bible Fellowship International as treasurer. I am humbled by your confidence. One thing has happened, though. My […]

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Feature Article

Being Christians in a age of foreclosure

by Keith Bassham Until the Oxford English Dictionary was first published from the late 1800s into the early 1900s, for the previous 150 years there was really only one English dictionary, compiled by Samuel Johnson, […]

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Feature Article

Johann Sebastian Bach

by Brian Wise At the age of 48, he had just acquired a copy of Luther’s three-volume translation of the Bible. Poring over it as one who had just found a buried treasured, he made […]

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Baptist History

Johann Gerhard Onken – Every Baptist a missionary

by Thomas Ray Johann Gerhard Oncken Every Baptist a missionary Baptist History Charles Spurgeon described Johann Oncken as “The Apostle Paul of Germany.” Baptist historian Irwin Barnes states, “Oncken was the father not only of […]

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Church Planting

Credit freeze?

by Wayne Guinn Maybe in the secular economy, but not in God’s economy. We’ve had a wonderful start to the new year here at the NCPO. We have closed on three new loans, one in […]