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Urban Current

Success as a city saint

By Charles Lyons The fishy smell of the sea. The sailor’s curse. The creak of rigging. We disembark. Wending our way through milling crowds, mounds of fish, bales of goods, and stepping over non-descript slime, […]

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On the Table

A visit with a hero

By Keith Bassham When I visit my kids in the Washington, D. C. area, I generally go into amateur historian mode. In that mindset, I am liable to head down any road marked with some […]

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Feature Article

Going with the flow

How a busy life can mask dangerous temptations by Kevin Carson Life is quick. The next ten minutes could help change your life.

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Baptist History

Christmas Evans

The great Welsh preacher By Thomas Ray Christmas Evans has been described as a man who labored like the Apostle Paul, who possessed the imagination of Bunyan, the eloquence of Whitfield, and is considered by […]

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On the Table

A failure of imagination

by Keith Bassham My wife and I have been watching space films lately. Not the fantasy, Buck Rogers kind. This is NASA/Discovery Channel stuff — that, and some dramatic series based on the real thing. […]

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Feature Article

2009 missionary family reunion

by Lewis McClendon This year, my wife and I had the privilege of being part of the BBFI Missionary Family Reunion in Fayetteville, Arkansas. I was the speaker for the general sessions, and my wife, […]

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Feature Article

What’s buggin’ you, lady?

by Gwendolyn Weniger Pastor’s wife, Woodbridge, Virginia Do you like creepy crawly things? Recently, I was sitting in church listening to my husband preach and felt someone tangling with my hair. A large spider had […]