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Feature Article

Being a wise gift-giver:

Choosing the best gifts for everyone on your Christmas list by Kevin Carson Ah, the pressures of the Christmas gift list. What do you buy and why? Did you know there are principles from Proverbs […]

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Feature Article

ABCs of highly effective prayer

by Jim and Jeri Combs In the tradition of acrostic or alphabeti­cal psalms and chapters in the Bible (see Psalm 119), it is appropriate to arrange these great truths on prayer in English alphabetical order. […]

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AfterWords

Preaching from a grocery bag

By Don Nevels – BBFI missionary to Argentina Very soon after Pearl Harbor was bombed in 1941, and during the raging battles of the Second World War, Don (that’s me), Nancy, Carole, and Larry Nevels came […]

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Baptist History

James Ireland

The preacher they tried to kill By Thomas Ray James Ireland was born in 1748 to an affluent Scot­tish family. His future was filled with promise, but a youthful indiscretion forced him to abandon his […]

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Urban Current

Where is God?

By Charles Lyons The untimely pregnancy sets tongues a wagging in this Palestinian vil­lage. A young maiden’s betrothed does the socially improper, politically incorrect, religiously unacceptable thing; he stays true to his fiancée. On top […]

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On the Table

End of the year housekeeping

By Keith Bassham Though most readers will receive this magazine before Thanksgiv­ing, publishing realities demand I think in terms of the end of the year, and certain housekeeping chores make similar demands. First a word […]

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Feature Article

Thankful for the scars

By Barb Milioni Thanksgiving is the time of year when we are encouraged to be thankful. We all know the story of the first Thanksgiving when the pilgrims and the Native Americans gathered together to […]

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Thankful for all the Lord provides

By Maxine (Mrs. David A.) Cavin Editor’s note: This article first appeared in the Baptist Bible Tribune, November 15, 1997. In view of the hard times so many are going through, we thought it an […]

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AfterWords

Life as a lump

By Charlie Miller Pastor, High Plains Baptist Church, Clovis, New Mexico After going through a very difficult time in our ministry, my wife, April, recommended, “Take an art class — you’ve always wanted to — […]

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Southeast Asia hit with storms and typhoons

Missionaries need our help for relief efforts By the Tribune When tropical storm Ketsana struck the Philippines late last month, it dumped one month’s worth of rain in Manila and outlying provinces in a matter […]