“When I was about nine years old I began singing with my family. Pops called us kids into the living room… and he began giving us voices to sing that he and his sisters and brothers would sing when they were in Mississippi.” Naturally, the songs they sang were spirituals. “Our ver...
it could create problems. In 2020, the pandemic created big problems (e.g. the need for personal protective equipment, the need to deal with many more mail-in ballots, etc.) that local election officials
She stood with Furman through thick and thin, good and bad—including an ugly breakup with the Southern Baptists. Throughout this struggle, her grace and hospitality extended to everyone, including small church Baptist pastors and their families. My mother’s last football game at Furman came o...
Memphis saw the aftermath of many river tragedies. Mark Twain sadly chronicles one inLife on the Mississippi, his river memoir that treats his four years of steamboat piloting before the Civil War. In 1858, Sam, still a “cub” or apprentice pilot, encouraged his younger brother, Henry—s...
I was amused to find out that Haughton boasted three saloons at the time as our little community grew with the railroad that we criss-cross back and forth to this today to get from Haughton High School to Haughton Baptist. I guess it's true. We do learn something new every day!
many letters sent back to German hometowns talking about the boundless lands in US west frontier and likening America to the land of hopes and opportunities, full of milk and honey.[6] German immigrants particularly immigrated to the extensive upper Mississippi basin between the Appalachian ...
“For Fear Of The Jews,” the twelve disciples of the Lord Jesus Christ locked themselves in an upper room on the day of His burial fearing that they too would be crucified by the murderers of God. Today, many still, even Christians —“for fear of the Jews”— are frightened into sp...
Of the 65 churches that Redeemer has helped to plant in the New York area, only 10 are PCA. The largest is Southern Baptist.Pastor Gyger puts it this way: "He has a practical understanding that if we are going to reach the whole city, we need a wide spectrum of the church."...
“I do think that ruling will have a major impact,” said the Rev. Terry Fox, a Southern Baptist minister in Wichita, Kansas, and a leader of the successful movement to ban same-sex marriage in that state. “The Supreme Court has given a strong statement that people have a right in ...