Should I call myself a Christian?
Just a few conversations changed the way I few the label of Christian and evangelical.
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Have Evangelical Christians sold out?
Genuine social influence will not come by putting Christ back into Christmas; it will come by putting Christ and his priorities back into Christians.
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Beatitudes
Each Beatitude consists of two phrases: the condition and the result. In almost all cases the phrases used are familiar from an Old Testament context, but in the Sermon on the Mount Jesus elevates them to new levels and teachings. Together, the Beatitudes present a new set of ideals that focus on love and humility rather than force and exaction. They echo the highest ideals of Jesus’ teachings on spirituality and compassion.
These are the Beatitudes, blessings from Matthew and Luke followed by the four woes
The ills of society
Too often we worry about the ills of society rather than the ills in our own lives
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John Leland
Baptist minister John Leland played a key role in the struggle for religious liberty in both Virginia and Connecticut. Raised in New England, Leland traveled
Freedom of Religion or Freedom from Religion?
Freedom of conscience, unlimited freedom of mind, was from the first the trophy of the Baptists. George Bancroft The Baptists were the first propounders of
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The Virginia Act For Establishing Religious Freedom
Thomas Jefferson, 1786 Well aware that Almighty God hath created the mind free; that all attempts to influence it by temporal punishments or burdens, or
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