Stories tagged with: independence day

• Alabama church forgives flag thief, extends invitation to church

  by Caleb Yarbrough/The Alabama Baptist, posted Wednesday, July 15, 2020 (2 years ago)

  

  Lisa Patteson/The Alabama Baptist

  GRAND BAY, Ala. (BP) -- It's not every day that a church is robbed, but it's even less common for the offender to return what was stolen with a written apology.

  First Baptist Church Grand Bay, Ala., had placed American flags across its campus to celebrate July 4. Ribbons were placed on each of the flags to honor veterans of the U.S. armed forces. Read More

• FIRST-PERSON: America the beautiful?

  by Jim Richards, posted Thursday, July 02, 2020 (2 years ago)

  

  Jim Richards says believers' response to current chaos should be to proclaim the Gospel of Jesus Christ as the solution and to display that Gospel in a Holy Spirit-empowered life of holiness. Read More

• FIRST-PERSON: God bless America

  by Gary Ledbetter, posted Monday, June 29, 2020 (2 years ago)

  

  Though America doesn't always live up to its ideals, those who founded it and kept it through very difficult days have delivered to us a nation that has blessed the world, Gary Ledbetter says. Read More

• FOURTH OF JULY: Past, present & future

  by Steve Playl, posted Tuesday, July 02, 2019 (3 years ago)

  The 240-plus years since the Declaration of Independence, punctuated by the Civil War, prompt Steve Playl to take stock of America's future. Read More

• An appeal to rightly apply 2 Chronicles 7:14

  by Steve Gaines, posted Monday, July 03, 2017 (5 years ago)

  Is it a misapplication of Scripture for pastors to use 2 Chronicles 7:14 to call American Christians to repent? No, writes Steve Gaines. Read More

• INDEPENDENCE DAY: 'We face another challenging hour'

  by Maj. Gen. Doug Carver (ret.), posted Monday, July 03, 2017 (5 years ago)

  

  Photo by Adam Covington

  Doug Carver recounts Southern Baptists' longstanding wartime ministry to members of the armed forces. And now, he points to another critical hour to remain "faithful stewards of the freedom we've been granted by the men and women who have, through their brave and sacrificial service, kept America the land of the free and the brave." Read More

• 'We the People' stirs state legislator's loyalty

  by Jim Burton, posted Friday, July 01, 2016 (6 years ago)

  

  Submitted photo

  BARDSTOWN, Ky. (BP) -- Only a few people recognized the words written more than 150 years ago when David Floyd read them at Bardstown Baptist Church during a God and Country emphasis.

  Citing a call to "public humiliation, prayer, and fasting" to be observed by all Americans, the state representative and military veteran shared these words of proclamation to his church:

  "Whereas it is fit and becoming in all people at all times to acknowledge and revere the supreme government of God, to bow in humble submission to His chastisements, to confess and deplore their sins and transgressions in the full conviction that the fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom, and to pray with all fervency and contrition for the pardon of their past offenses and for a blessing upon their present and prospective action." Read More