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2023-10-27T16:16:08-04:00

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Reformation Day, Rummage Sales & Sweeping Changes in Christianity

Last updated on: October 27, 2023 at 4:16 pm By Ginny Baxter

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Protestants Observe Reformation Day on Oct. 31 Change has been a fact of life in the Christian church since its founding 2,000 years ago. You don’t need a college degree in church history to know that sweeping changes in Christianity have occurred like clockwork every 500 or so years since Christ laid the groundwork for his new religion in the first century. The first seismic change in the church took place around 500 A.D., when the Roman empire collapsed and... Read more

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2023-10-25T09:16:37-04:00

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Do You Believe in Ghosts? Here’s What the Bible & Our Culture Say about Them

Last updated on: October 25, 2023 at 9:16 am By Ginny Baxter

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It’s almost Halloween, and Americans are decorating their yards with ghosts, ghouls and goblins, planning costume parties and loading up on candy. It’s the perfect time to talk about ghosts. So, let me begin with an obvious question: do you believe in ghosts? I mean actual apparitions of dead people… disembodied spirits… translucent entities that roam the land and scare the living. A Haunting in Tennessee I haven’t believed in actual ghosts since I was about seven or eight years... Read more

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2023-10-23T13:54:58-04:00

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Women Continue to Shape the Christian Faith

Last updated on: October 23, 2023 at 1:54 pm By Ginny Baxter

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Controversy surrounds the idea of women teaching and preaching the gospel even in the 21st century, but I’m here to say that women played an important role in the early church and women continue to shape the Christian faith today. You may read my post about women in the early church here. Christians recognize Christ as the greatest teacher to ever walk the earth. I would rank the Apostle Paul second despite misgivings about some of his teachings. And as... Read more

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2023-10-21T18:02:09-04:00

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The Almost Forgotten History of Early Christian Women

Last updated on: October 21, 2023 at 6:02 pm By Ginny Baxter

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When I was a child, women did not preach – at least not in the Baptist, Methodist or Presbyterian churches in my small town. The pastor was invariably a man with a family. He ran the church, and his wife took care of their home and the children. But today’s Christian churches don’t necessarily follow that model, nor did churches in the distant past. Ancient texts uncovered in the last 20 or so years describe a church that we would... Read more

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2023-10-04T15:05:45-04:00

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The Body-Mind-Soul Connection:

Last updated on: October 4, 2023 at 3:05 pm By Ginny Baxter

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How Spirituality & Faith Affect Mental, Physical & Emotional Well-being Call it instinct, observation or experience. Call it whatever you wish, but people realized several thousand years ago that spirituality and wellness go hand in hand. And recent studies confirm the body-mind-soul connection and suggest a prayer a day may actually keep the doctor away. Consider these Findings… Researchers at Duke University Medical Center have determined that people “who practice religion had better immune function than those who didn’t. So... Read more

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2023-09-25T15:43:05-04:00

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Why Christians Need to Say ‘Love Thy Neighbor’ & Mean It

Last updated on: September 25, 2023 at 3:43 pm By Ginny Baxter

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Looking Ahead to Yom Kippur & Sukkot The Bible clearly tells Christians how to treat their neighbors in several verses. Leviticus 19:18 in the Old Testament says, “You shall love thy neighbor as yourself.” In the New Testament, Christ says we should love God above all else, and the second command is, “You shall love your neighbor as yourself.” 1 John 4:20 adds, “If anyone says, ‘I love God,’ and hates his neighbor, he is a liar; for he who... Read more

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2023-09-20T21:22:04-04:00

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Methodists Have Reached a Crossroads… Again

Last updated on: September 20, 2023 at 9:22 pm By Ginny Baxter

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Methodists have reached a crossroads in 2023, as many conservative churches have left the United Methodist Church (UMC) to create a new, more conservative denomination called the Global Methodist Church. But this isn’t the only time the church has split. Keep in mind that the current divide affects millions of people, as the United Methodist denomination has 12 million members worldwide and is the second largest denomination in the U.S. Also keep in mind that Methodists have a history of... Read more

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2023-09-19T15:41:15-04:00

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From ‘Passion’ to ‘Messiah’ to ‘Ave Maria’: A Look at Classical Christian Music

Last updated on: September 19, 2023 at 3:41 pm By Ginny Baxter

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Ahhhh….classical music….People tend to love it or hate it, and I love it. Since September is Classical Music Month, I decided there’s no better time to write about three great pieces of classical Christian music and the composers who wrote them. Those pieces are Johann Sebastian Bach’s “St. Matthew Passion”: Click here for the Netherlands Bach Society’s performance; Frideric Handel’s “Messiah”: Listen to the Royal Choral Society perform the “Hallelujah Chorus,” which reportedly brought a king to his feet, here; And finally,... Read more

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2023-09-14T11:26:07-04:00

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Can Faith Help You Fight Your Demons? Yes & I’ve Seen It

Last updated on: September 14, 2023 at 11:26 am By Ginny Baxter

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Can faith change a person for the better? I’m convinced it can, and I need look only as far as my one-time husband for proof. Faith has changed the lives of countless Christians in the last 2,000 years, including a man I once knew. We met in college, and I thought he was funny, interesting and intelligent, as well as good looking. We were both products of deeply religious middle-class families and shared many of the same interests and values... Read more

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2023-09-11T00:35:38-04:00

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Can Christians Help People at Risk for Suicide?

Last updated on: September 11, 2023 at 12:35 am By Ginny Baxter

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They Can & Here’s How Their ashes rest in an urn in my bedroom. My sister. My nephew…. He shot himself to death on Memorial Day 2017, and she followed suit on July 27. He was 42. She was 63. I try to put thoughts about them behind me. At times, it’s quite painful, but at others, I feel nothing. However, I can’t help but think about them right now. September is National Suicide Prevention Month, and this Sunday,... Read more

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