Few people outside of the denomination understand how a Southern Baptist church operates. Most
think that we are under the authority of the Southern Baptist Convention. We are not.

I saw something new in a worship service (at least it was new to me): worship flags. There were a
couple of young ladies on the stage with the worship leader and they were waving large flags. Picture
the color guard in a high school band. I looked it up online and was surprised to see a lot of companies
selling “worship and praise” flags.

The headline for a news story said this: “Attacks against churches doubled in 2023, report warns:
‘Growing disdain for Christianity’”.

The headline for a news story said this: “Attacks against churches doubled in 2023, report warns:
‘Growing disdain for Christianity’”.

Defining written history as telling or retelling actual events from the past, it’s interesting to note that
written history is approximately 5,000 years old. That is, we have only about 5,000 years of humans
telling of things that they know happened.

You’ve probably heard by now that a gambling bill has been introduced in our state legislature yet again.
There is a slightly different approach to this one as it’s what I call a “bait and switch” bill.

According to various websites, there are between 20 to 170 “genders”. People rightfully ask what the
difference is between gender and sex. My definition in simple terms is that sex is what you are, and
gender is what you think you are.

According to various websites, there are between 20 to 170 “genders”. People rightfully ask what the
difference is between gender and sex. My definition in simple terms is that sex is what you are, and
gender is what you think you are.

We are now being told, and it will get worse as the election nears, that the “Christian right”, “Christian
Nationalists”, and “radical Christians” are a danger to American democracy. Of course, any Christian
politician is automatically assigned one or more of those categories. Therefore, their agenda is to rip the
threads of democracy from our nation and we will become a Christian theocracy.

A young man sat in a college class and listened to a professor teach that Israel is the aggressor in a land
that they illegally occupy. The professor, a tenured, respected lady who had taught at the university for
over 20 years, basically said that the massacre by Hamas terrorists was deserved by Israel for their evil
ways over the years.