The hero of hedonism is dead
Hugh Hefner, a five star general in the sexual revolution, entrepreneur, multi-millionaire, smut peddler, pimp, and philanderer, died last week at the age of 91. He was buried in a crypt next to...
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Rugby and Revival: a True story of Hope in Wales
“Rugby and Revival,” written by New Hope Baptist Church, Fayetteville Pastor Rhys Stenner, ties together the national sport and a historical event both dear to the heart of the author’s native Wales....
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Why Stephen Paddock became a terrorist
This photo from the grounds of Las Vegas Village, taken in September 2016, gives the perspective of concertgoers Oct. 1 when Stephen Paddock opened fire from his hotel room on the 32nd flood of the...
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Georgia Baptists’ executive director: 25 years and counting
J. Robert White, right, looks on as University of North Georgia Campus Minister Ken Jones present a photo of the Missions and Ministry Center. Helping to hold the photo, whose matting was eventually...
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Steve Franz: overcoming evangelistic indifference
Steve Franz is a Georgia Baptist evangelist who has developed a Church Growth Strategy called, “Targeted Evangelism and Discipleship.” He has a Bachelor of Arts in Pastoral Ministry and a Master of...
View ArticlePaper plates or fine china
I am not sure I know the difference between an aphorism and a colloquialism, but I like idiomatic or metaphorical sayings that belong to a region or a local dialect. Our American, and particularly...
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Auburn First Baptist – ‘The Little Engine that Could’
Sheldon Younes, left, and Pastor Chris Parkin stand in the yard of a North Georgia resident who needed help after a tree fell in her yard. AUBURN FIRST BAPTIST/Special AUBURN – The Little Engine That...
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Kerri Hammond – a woman of grace
The Hammond family – Karley, Katie, Kerri, and Thomas – get together for a photo, Thanksgiving 2016. HAMMOND FAMILY/Special The Christian Index has typically provided to our readers a profile of the...
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NAMB loses a great missionary statesman with the retirement of Bill Barker
Retiring NAMB Missionary Bill Barker, who oversees the Appalachian Regional Ministries and the annual backpacks collection, poses with some of the 33,831 backpacks which Georgia Baptists brought to the...
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12-year old Christian Burdette: saved weeks before his death
Christian Burdette, one of High Falls most loved young men, was saved and baptized just weeks before his tragic death. BURDETTE FAMILY/Special MONROE COUNTY – Many older people think of death...
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Exercise caution in using other churches as your model for ministry
Bill Hybels preaches during a worship service of 25,000-member at the Chicago church. WCCW/Special Bill Hybels has been one of the most well-known and influential pastors in America for at least three...
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Dogwood Church’s plan to adopt an evangelism strategy that works
Keith Moore doesn’t intend to let the culture dampen his enthusiasm for reaching the lost. DOGWOOD CHURCH/Special TYRONE – While baptisms have been declining precipitously in Southern Baptist life in...
View ArticleSuperman and globalism
I never became fascinated or preoccupied with comic books, not even when they sold for 10 cents apiece. And for the life of me I cannot understand how a comic book can become a collector’s item worth...
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Macedonia Baptist Church: Surviving the Civil War and thriving today
At right, Georgia Baptist Mission Board state missionary Bryan Alexander presents a plaque of recognition for Macedonia Baptist Church to Pastor David Shelton. MACEDONIA BAPTIST/Special OXFORD —...
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Remembering Martin Luther’s and Mercer’s 95 Theses
Anniversaries are important, especially centennial and bicentennial anniversaries, but a quincentennial anniversary is most notable. We are coming up on a quincentennial anniversary on Halloween, or...
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Shuford Jones honored with Lifetime Achievement Award
BRASELTON — Mulberry Baptist Association recognized Shuford and Ann Jones for their faithful ministry with a Lifetime Achievement Award at their associational meeting on Oct. 26, 2017. Alan Hall,...
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Editorial: Watch out for Jose Altuve
HOUSTON — The current World Series has been full of drama, home runs, marathon battles on the diamond, outstanding players, and come-from-behind wins. The Houston Astros and the Los Angeles Dodgers...
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Eastside, Marietta Facility named for Clark and Josephine Hutchinson
MARIETTA — During the 20-year pastorate of Clark Hutchinson at Eastside Baptist Church in Marietta, the church experienced phenomenal growth. The church became known as “Excited Eastside.” Clark and...
View ArticleWhatever happened to evangelism?
In the early 1970s Karl Menninger wrote a book entitled Whatever Became of Sin? Menninger was an American psychiatrist who concluded that while almost everyone grapples with a sense of guilt and shame,...
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Challenge students and watch them excel
MONROE — The students of First Baptist Church in Monroe have been hard at work to raise money for Disaster Relief. On Sunday, Oct. 29 Bobby Boswell, assistant executive director of the Georgia Baptist...
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