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Continue reading →: CORE, part 3: Scattered…Beyond the Walls
This is the third of a three-part sermon series on core values preached at Trinity Baptist Church, Conyers, GA, from July 17th – July 31st. Title: “A Scattered People.” Text: Acts 5:17-23; 33-39. I. In the movie Happy Gilmore, a washed-up (read: lousy) hockey player, Happy (Adam Sandler) discovers that…
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Continue reading →: CORE, part 2: Repair the spiritual deficit by discovering core values
This is the second of a three-part sermon series on core values preached at Trinity Baptist Church, Conyers, GA, from July 17th – July 31st. This was an article (rather than a sermon) that was originally published in The Rockdale Citizen, July 30, 2011. **** Decision time: Do we cut…
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Continue reading →: The year of the Bible [translations]
As the 400th birthday of the King James Version comes and goes this year, several new Bibles are hitting stores to offer “fresh” translations to a timeless word. Whether these newbies will find a captive audience and dominate the Bible market as did the KJV is yet to be determined.…
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Continue reading →: CORE: Claiming Core Values in a World of Misdirection
This is the first of a three-part sermon series on core values preached at Trinity Baptist Church, Conyers, GA, from July 17th – July 31st. I. In his book, Man to Man, Chuck Swindoll recalls a time when he was eight years old and his mother and he went to…
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Continue reading →: The difference between weeds and wheat
I told my wife that we were finally going to cultivate a beautiful garden this year . She looked at me skeptically: Were we really going to spend the money to have a nice yard? Were we going to invest time tending the soil, planting seeds, and making a brick…
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Continue reading →: Song of Solomon: Scripture that makes you squirm
I can’t pinpoint any one embarrassing moment in my life, but I can say with all confidence that attending the movies with my parents was a comprehensive experiment in the art of embarrassment. Whenever a bad word was uttered, my father would groan like a frog. I always thought it…
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Continue reading →: 2011 NIV vs. SBC: The battle over the bestselling Bible translation
During the 2011 Southern Baptist Convention meeting in Phoenix held several weeks ago, messengers passed a resolution that “respectfully requested” Lifeway not to carry or sell the newly revised New International Version (2011). A Baptist Press article reports: “The resolution came to the floor when Indiana pastor Tim Overton persuaded…
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Continue reading →: Southern Baptist Convention, Cooperative Baptist Fellowship facing shortfalls, asking questions about God’s future.
By Joe LaGuardia. This article originally ran in the Rockdale Citizen (June 2, 2011). It has been a week since the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship met in its annual General Assembly in Tampa, Florida. The Fellowship, which is made up mostly of moderate Baptists representing nearly 1800 churches and hundreds of…
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Continue reading →: Cooperative Baptist Fellowship has the power to engage God’s future with unfettered forgiveness
Last Friday in Tampa, tucked away in one of the small meeting rooms of the Marriott Waterside hotel, twenty Baptists gathered to worship with the Baptist Peace Fellowship of North America. This was one of the many breakout meetings of the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship General Assembly, which attracted over 1600…
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Continue reading →: Pentecost affirms that God’s glory is revealed in diversity
Although it’s been two weeks since churches around the globe celebrated Pentecost, we are still in need of a fresh Pentecost spirit to enliven and embolden a richly diverse and creative body of Christ in our own nation today. Pentecost was the time when the Holy Spirit filled, authenticated, and…
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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.
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