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Words of the Week – Should Women Be Church Pastors, Teachers, and Leaders?
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Words of the Week – Should Women Be Church Pastors, Teachers, and Leaders?

Larry Buford, Contributing WriterMarch 30, 2023

I just read an article about the Southern Baptist Convention cutting ties with Saddleback Church, founded by now retired Pastor Rick Warren, for defending women in the role of church leaders, particularly as pastors. This has been a long-standing controversial issue. There was a member in my own fellowship who had the same concern, so I had done some previous research on it. A lot of the controversy stems from Apostle Paul’s writings. On the one hand Paul writes in 1 Timothy 2:12, “I do not permit a woman to teach or to have authority over a man; she must

Words of the Week – The Coming of the Lord
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Words of the Week – The Coming of the Lord

Rev. Dr. Mary S. Minor, Contributing WriterJune 22, 2022

The message today is no matter how long you much wait on God, keep hope alive, because the Lord will return. Jesus told us, No one knows the day nor the hour with he will return. So, just be ready!

Words of the Week – Remember Your Faith
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Words of the Week – Remember Your Faith

Rev. Dr. Michael W. Eagle, Sr., Contributing WriterMay 25, 2022

Scripture: II Timothy 1:5 (NLT) Here, the Apostle Paul is sending a gentle, yet encouraging word and reminder to his “son in the faith,” Timothy, to remember his faith. It’s a personal letter from one who generally wrote epistles and it gives us a unique and private perspective of the feelings and insecurities that both men happened to share. They were close in their relationship – close in comradeship, close in ministry, close in their feelings about Christ! They were close! They had cried together when they parted – these two men were close. Paul had circumcised Timothy so he

Words of the Week – Something’s Gotta Give 
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Words of the Week – Something’s Gotta Give 

Rev. James McKnight, Contributing WriterJanuary 20, 2021

Scripture: Ephesians 6:10-18 Remember wrestling?  Remember playing as kids and yielding when someone was too strong?  What was the exclamation? It was “I give.”  We said it when we were feeling as though we had had enough. These days, because of all that is going on in the world, with all of the wickedness in high places, many of us are feeling that something has gotta give; something has gotta shift; something has gotta break loose. Many of us are angry, worried and battling depression because of the hatefulness, hypocrisy and hell that we see on our screens everyday. Let’s

Words of the Week – Turn the Other Cheek
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Words of the Week – Turn the Other Cheek

Joshua Apparicio, Contributing Youth WriterMarch 20, 2019

To the youth readers, my prayer is that you all have been enjoying the Words of the Week I’ve been sharing with you. Writing to the youth throughout many communities has certainly been therapeutic for me. Being able to have this opportunity to speak directly and concisely to the youth is something I wouldn’t have even begun to envision, say, six years ago. It states in Matthew 5:38, “You have heard that it was said, ‘An eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth.’” As Christians, we don’t always find a solution in using one insult to describe

Words of the Week – The Law of Faith, Part 1
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Words of the Week – The Law of Faith, Part 1

Pastor Fred K. Price Jr., Contributing WriterFebruary 20, 2019

Our lesson is Faith 101. I’m going to teach on faith with the Apostle in the building. Either I’m foolish or I’m anointed. It’s got to be one of the two. Romans 3:27 reads, “Where is boasting then? It is excluded. By what law? Of works? No, but by the law of faith.” What the law of faith produces does not allow for us to boast about our salvation unless we’re boasting about what God did. In no way can we boast about what we’ve done because there isn’t enough that we could do in works or