1Therefore seeing we have this ministry, as we have received mercy, we faint not; 2But have renounced the hidden things of dishonesty, not walking in craftiness, nor handling the word of God deceitfully; but by manifestation of the truth commending ourselves to every man’s conscience in the sight of God. 3But if our gospel be hid, it […]
The Genesis narrative informs Christian believers that God creates with words and that God spoke the earth and its inhabitants into being (Genesis 1-3). I cannot imagine what those first days of the earth’s young life must have been like. Can you imagine a world where everything is new? Nothing had been used. Nothing was […]
Standing in my bathroom, looking into the mirror as if before millions of viewers and holding a hair brush in my hand, sometimes I want to say, “Good morning. I am Starlette McNeill. This week in race news…” At least for me, it seems that this is how many of our conversations should begin as […]
1 There was a man in the land of Uz, whose name was Job; and that man was blameless and upright, and one who feared God and shunned evil. 2And seven sons and three daughters were born to him. 3 Also, his possessions were seven thousand sheep, three thousand camels, five hundred yoke of oxen, five hundred female donkeys, and a […]
Since Monday, I have been in Orlando, Florida for the American Baptist Churches, USA’s conference that serves as both an opportunity for ministry renewal if one is a pastor and an orientation for persons new to the American Baptist denomination. The theme for our week of gathering together is “Go to a New Land: Journeying […]