11 Here there is not Greek and Jew, circumcised and uncircumcised, barbarian, Scythian, slave, free; but Christ is all, and in all. 12 Put on then, as God’s chosen ones, holy and beloved, compassion, kindness, humility, meekness, and patience, 13 bearing with one another and, if one has a complaint against another, forgiving each other; as the Lord has forgiven you, so you also must forgive. Colossians 3:11-13 (ESV) Racial issues make the headlines: In 1991 it was the Rodney King arrest; in 1995 a jury acquitted O. J. Simpson; in 2002, Senator Trent Lott lost his Majority Leader post […]

“Like a Whale through a Net”—John Adams (1735 – 1826) Besides serving as the second President of the United States (1797-1801), John Adams was in many other ways a pivotal figure in the founding of his nation. As a delegate to the Continental Congress and the author of the Massachusetts Constitution (on which the national one was later modeled), Adams understood the American experiment at least as well as any other person of his time. As Adams saw it, the American people faced a stark choice: esteem and embrace godly virtue and thrive or cast it away and decline.

XXX DALLAS (Baptist Press)–The statistics are unnerving, though Jason Illian admits the damage to the Kingdom of God is hard to quantify just yet. It is in the secret places — behind closed office doors, locked studies — that Americans, mostly teen and adult men, are seeking and very easily finding access to a proliferation of Internet porn.

What is a martyr? The answer reveals a major difference between Christianity and Islam. True Martyrs Victims of Radical Islam and Political Correctness For years radical Islamists in the Philippines have been attacking Christians. In late April seven Christians were murdered on the southern Philippine island of Jolo.

The Greatness of Sin by Steve Gallagher It was the late 1960’s. The skirmish in Vietnam was escalating into all-out war. The Beatles were being displaced by hard rockers like the Rolling Stones and The Doors. Flower children were advocating “free love” in San Francisco. And a young man walked to the balcony of his hotel room and, convinced that he could fly, plunged ten floors to his death on the sidewalk below. He had come under the deadly spell of L.S.D.

Ten Reasons We Believe the Bible June 21st, 2007 (By Nathan Busenitz) There is no question that the Bible claims to be the Word of God. In fact, over 2,000 times in the Old Testament alone, from the beginning (Gen. 1:3) to the end (Mal. 4:3), the assertion is made that God Himself spoke what is written within its pages.

Church matters. Founded by Jesus Christ, birthed at Pentecost, the heavenly bride, church matters. Many today think that church is merely a convenience for me when I choose to use it to help me in my relationship with God.

Tiffany Smith (pictured with her mother, Fern) is the summer ministry intern of the First Baptist Church, Perryville, Maryland. Because she will also be ministering with several other sister churches, your first introduction may be by internet. But you can count on her being an active part of Vacation Bible School and our first ever Mission Camp in Perryville. Additional ministry will follow.

Fathers are very important! Learn the top ten scientific reasons why. The National Fatherhood Initiative (NFI) was founded in 1994, by former White House advisor and civil society scholar Don Eberly and child psychologist Wade Horn. The mission of the organization is to improve the well-being of children by increasing the proportion of children growing up with involved, responsible, and committed fathersNFI’s Father Facts (4th edition) is a comprehensive review of research on fatherhood and family trends. Here are NFI’s “top ten father facts” showing that children suffer greatly from the absence of their biological fathers.1

David Popenoe’s Life without Father is a must read for anyone seeking to understand why fathers are not simply optional pieces in a family mosaic but vital contributors to a child’s well-being.1 In a world diminishing the value of fathers, Popenoe explained—through a survey of sociological studies—that children are best served by being in a home with a married mother and father.