When Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee asked churches March 13 not to meet in person, leaders at First Baptist Church in Hendersonville, Tennessee, thought they would have to suspend normal worship services two or three weeks, until Easter at the latest. When those plans didn’t materialize, they figured everything would be back to normal by the …
A student with international mission aspirations contacted Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary last spring. He had heard about the BibleMesh Institute and wanted to know whether he could combine the self-paced flexibility of BibleMesh courses with work toward an accredited master’s degree from Southeastern. Absolutely, the seminary told him, because the student’s personal goals dovetailed with …
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As members of the church he pastored lay dying in the hospital, Juan Carlos Mendez assured them of Christ’s presence via video chat while nurses held up the phone. In his Los Angles church of 150 members, 11 people were infected with COVID-19 during the pandemic’s opening months. Four were hospitalized, including two in intensive …
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When the jailer woke and saw that the prison doors were open, he drew his sword and was about to kill himself, supposing that the prisoners had escaped. But Paul cried with a loud voice, “Do not harm yourself, for we are all here.” Acts 16:27-28 Police in Los Alamos, New Mexico, burst through the …
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First-century Greek speakers didn’t pronounce words like most modern seminarians are taught to pronounce them. While today’s budding Greek scholars are taught to pronounce the letter ƞ (eta) like the final vowel sound in “obey,” it actually was pronounced like the vowel sound in “feet.” Contemporary students are taught to pronounce the letter ω (omega) …