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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Newsjournal of the Baptist State Convention of Michigan | December 2023 | Volume 67, Number 12
Emily Guyer
- Nov 1
- 6 min
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
- 3 min
‘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
- 4 min
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
- 4 min
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
- 8 min
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
- 3 min
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
- 3 min
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
- 4 min
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
- 2 min
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
- 3 min
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
- 4 min
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
- 3 min
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
- 3 min
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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Aimee Freston
- Nov 1
- 4 min
Maui fire survivor recounts experience, TBM response
LAHAINA, HI (BP) – When Mari Finn awoke on Aug. 8 to heavy winds and no power, she assumed it was like any other storm that would pass....
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Jane Rodgers
- Nov 1
- 5 min
Renewed commitment to prayer leads Texas church’s transformation
TROUP, TX (BP) – Preston Lindsey has worn a lot of hats in his lifetime. He’s been a logger, pipe-fitter, oil field roughneck, telephone...
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Jamie Lynn
- Oct 2
- 4 min
Making a change in my weak prayer Life
PLYMOUTH – Looking at my walk as a Jesus follower, I found that my prayer life was weak in both frequency and depth. It seemed like every...
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Anna Skudarnova
- Oct 2
- 3 min
Send Network’s ‘Terminal’ podcast teaches lessons on living
SALISBURY, MD – Send Network’s new podcast, “Terminal: The Dying Church Planter,” is more than just a story about a guy with cancer, said...
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Karen Blanchard
- Oct 2
- 4 min
A sifting season
SHELBY TOWNSHIP – When farmers harvest wheat they must perform a process of sifting. First, they must thresh the wheat. The old-fashioned...
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Scott Barkley
- Oct 2
- 3 min
Events introduce men to the God who made the great outdoors
MARSHFIELD, MO (BP) – The first day of autumn may have officially come on Sept. 23, but the season associated with cooler weather had...
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