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Continue reading →: Leading others to Christ
By Joe LaGuardia I can’t remember the first time someone with an over-zealous type of faith asked me how many people I have led to Christ. It’s an old evangelist question with the main concern of leading non-believers to the saving knowledge and relationship with Jesus. It’s a question that…
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Continue reading →: Learning from Fred Craddock
By Joe LaGuardia Georgia is blessed to have some of the greatest preachers in these United States of America. The list goes on and on, from Thomas Long at Emory University to Barbara Brown Taylor in North Georgia. We are truly surrounded by good, Bible-based preaching. This past month, we lost one of…
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Continue reading →: St. Patrick, forgiveness, encourages interfaith work
By Joe LaGuardia The life and ministry of St. Patrick teaches us about being a hospitable Christian presence in a diverse culture. The mention of St. Patrick reminds people of green derbies, four-leaf clovers, leprechauns, and Guinness pints. The real story of St. Patrick is more captivating. St. Patrick was a young boy when…
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Continue reading →: Reconciliation (part 2): The Beloved Community
By Joe LaGuardia and Karen Woods Several weeks ago, Trinity’s associate pastor, Karen Woods, and I wrote an article on the art of reconciliation and truth-telling to improve race relations. This is the second of two articles. In the book of Genesis, God created Eden, a place where God and humans…
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Continue reading →: Young adults: Engines of today’s Church
Young adults have gotten a bad wrap. My generation–18 to 35 years old–goes by a variety of labels: Generation X, Generation Y, Millennials, the Entitlement Generation. This is the generation that politicians and churches try to recruit, but often fail to reach. Yet, these generations are also reviled. “Kids these days,”…
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Continue reading →: Rabbit’s Clover reflects God’s Intimacy
By Orrin Morris In chapter 16 of Matthew’s Gospel, we have an account of Jesus asking His disciples for input on who they thought the general public perceived him to be. They responded by naming John the Baptist, Elijah, Jeremiah, or one of the prophets. He then turned to them…
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Continue reading →: The Light shines in the darkness…
One of our deacons asked her 97-year old grandmother what she thought was the most important change in culture over the last century. Her grandmother said electric lighting. That got our deacon–and us, her Sunday school class–to think about what life was like before electric lights. Sure, there were candles and…
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Continue reading →: Jesus loves the little children, all the children of the world…
With violence overwhelming Paris in the last few weeks, a half-dozen police officers and ever more innocent citizens shot dead across the nation, genocide in Nigeria, Cuban people held in political hostage by a perplexed, American Congress in gridlock, and a controversy over a Muslim call to prayer at Duke University…
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Rev. Dr. Joe LaGuardia
Rev. Dr. Joe LaGuardia is a pastor, writer, and chaplain residing in Florida. He is author of three books and regular contributor to Smyth & Helwys’ Formations Series. His articles have appeared in USA Today, Baptist News Global, Christian Ethics Today, TCPalm, and Rockdale Citizen.
Baptist Spirituality explores the intersection of faith and culture incorporating biblical scholarship, culture and the arts, politics, science, and theology.
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