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April 29th, 2025

Funeral arrangements released for Seal

April 28th, 2025

Former Louisiana WMU Director Nelda Seal passes
Hisaw retires after 20 years at Tioga FBC
Americans claiming Social Security early, fearful of its future
CALIFORNIA: Burglaries soar in post-fire Altadena rattle residents

April 25th, 2025

That guy (Cartoon: Preacher’s Kids)
Deny self (Cartoon: Fletch)
Stand at the door (Cartoon: Joe McKeever)
Three-year-old girl finds Canaanite seal where Bible says David battled Goliath
Barna study: More teens say social media harm those their age
Tennessee governor signs bill protecting doctors from being forced to do abortions
World Changers: Still Baptist ‘through and through,’ still changing lives
INDONESIA: Officials seal Christian worship site before Easter
The bittersweet moments of college ministry
LCU alumna attorney
doing Lord’s work in Grant Parish

April 24th, 2025

Sproles recalls chaos and God’s presence after FSU shooting
Foundation Executive Director
Jeffrey Steed to retire

April 23rd, 2025

Speaker Johnson to Calvary students:

Live to make an ‘impact’

April 20th, 2025

Resurrection Sunday

April 19th, 2025

Holy (Black) Saturday

April 18th, 2025

Good Friday

April 17th, 2025

UK Supreme Court defines ‘woman’ in biological terms
FLORIDA: Baptists pray for FSU campus in aftermath of shooting
Google holds an illegal monopoly in ad sales, court rules
Louisiana Governor’s prayer breakfast draws more than 20 to Christ
UK Supreme Court defines ‘man,’ ‘woman,’ and ‘sex’ as biological
Holy/Maundy (Mandate) Thursday

April 16th, 2025

Love reminder (Cartoon: Joe McKeever)
BARNA: Belief in Jesus rises, fueled by younger adults
SOUTH AFRICA: Kidnapped American pastor rescued
Holy (Spy) Wednesday

April 15th, 2025

Kansas becomes 4th state to teach kids about fetal development
Palm Sunday airstrikes hit Ukraine, Myanmar and Gaza
Holy Tuesday

April 14th, 2025

Arrested pastor had abandoned Louisiana Baptist congregation in February
ERLC hosts Spinney, other pastors for advocacy trip
FIRST PERSON: Silent Saturday
CALIFORNIA: 12 anti-Israel protesters charged with felonies for vandalism at Stanford
Trump issues Holy Week declaration on ‘the living Son of God’
KENTUCKY: Church barely spared from flood, distributes meals to community
Study: More younger adult children joining family business
Holy Monday

April 13th, 2025

Palm Sunday

April 11th, 2025

Revival spurs spiritual renewal at FBC Natchitoches
Louisiana Bible Reading Marathon, April 16-19, seeks volunteers
Prayers needed for Compel Outreach Bible University graduates serving in earthquake-ravaged Myanmar
LBCHFM celebrates opening of regional compassion center

April 10th, 2025

Louisiana Baptist pastor, Shane Wiggins, arrested
NIGERIA: Fulani militias kill 28 Christians

April 9th, 2025

LCU recognizes outstanding students at Honors Convocation

April 7th, 2025

ISRAEL: Hamas demanded $500M from Iran for destruction of Israel
ARKANSAS: Horne begins transition out of Arkansas Baptist executive director
Three-year-old girl finds Canaanite seal where Bible says David battled Goliath
Barna study: New research shows major rise in commitment to Jesus
At least 19 dead after flash flood emergencies across South, Midwest
KENYA: Christian couple, woman they led to Christ poisoned to death

April 4th, 2025

Rescued NASA Astronaut ‘Butch’ Wilmore shares test of faith
MISSOURI: Baptists minister to ‘hopeless’ in tornado-stricken areas
Hamas quietly erases 3,400 ‘casualties’ from its own war fatality lists
TENNESSEE: DR volunteers continue flood relief

April 3rd, 2025

PAKISTAN: Armed robbers gang-rape Christian’s wife
God will supply all my needs
Unemployment claims fall amid strong job market
California girls’ sports bills killed by Democrats despite ‘large numbers of supporters’
TEXAS: Beach Reach sees 246 accept Christ
TENNESSEE: Four generations from one family baptized

April 2nd, 2025

Maggie Martin Marketplace Leadership Summit: Christy Wright says ‘God is in the details’
Crusade bears fruit for FBC Denham Springs: 55 baptisms in one day

March 31st, 2025

THAILAND: Search for quake survivors intensifies; death toll exceeds 2,000
Can’t miss opportunity (Cartoon: Fletch)
Loudly discussing (Cartoon: Preacher’s Kids)
Hope built (Cartoon: Joe McKeever)
SOMALIA: Mother of three loses all relatives for receiving Christ
PEW study: Blue-collar workers less satisfied at work
ENGLAND: Labour council seeks to imprison street preachers up to two years
New Life Pregnancy Center schedules April 5 gala

March 28th, 2025

West Ouachita Crusade kicks off March 30

March 27th, 2025

FIRST PERSON: The LBC does not oppose Amendment 2
Johnston, former US Senator and member of First Baptist Shreveport, dies at 92

March 26th, 2025

Mount Vesuvius eruption turned a man’s brain into glass
First permanent facial recognition cameras to go up in London
North Koreans tied up and brutally executed in front of horrified villagers
Half of households hold 97.5 percent of national wealth
Four US soldiers found dead near Belarus border

March 25th, 2025

LACOSBE elects 2025 officers
Former Chinese underground church member celebrates new life

March 24th, 2025

Man arrested for threatening to ‘butcher’ Tennessee church members with machete in email to choir director
Sudan jails 19 Christians on unfounded allegations
Trump, Landry praise $5.8 billion Hyundai steel mill in Louisiana
LCU holds 5th Annual C. S. Lewis Honors Forum

March 21st, 2025

More than 1,300 spiritual decisions made in Denham Springs
EVANGELISM 101 (Part 3): The Gospel conversation
Louisiana Baptists share John 3:16 on 3/16
Louisiana Notables
LCU’s new president excited to foster LCU ‘community’

March 20th, 2025

Kindness, courage and redemption on the basketball court
West Ouchita Parish Crusade, March 30-April 2, 6 p.m.

March 18th, 2025

TLC and LCU music department present Little Women: the Broadway Musical

March 17th, 2025

LBDR teams respond to killer tornado outbreak

March 13th, 2025

FIRST PERSON: No, Amendment 2 does not place taxes on churches
LCU graduating class achieves 100 percent acceptance to professional programs
West Ouachita Crusade set for March 30-April 2
LCU to host virtual March Madness Fitness Challenge for community
New congressional bill would ban using aborted baby parts for research
Putin aide rejects plan for Ukraine cease-fire
Budget deficit passes $1 trillion for year-to-date record
Nearly 1,000 respond to altar call at WVU

March 12th, 2025

DOJ closes investigation of SBC
FBI’s warning to iPhone, Android users: Delete these ‘smishing’ texts now
Study: Americans feeling peak stress earlier than ever
New super bananas get old but not brown
Airline CEOs warn domestic travel demand is slowing
Inflation rate eased to 2.8 percent in February, lower than expected

March 11th, 2025

Southwest Airlines shifts to paid baggage policy to lift earnings

March 10th, 2025

Denham Springs crusade set for March 16-19
BARNA: 56 percent of Christian adults view spiritual lives as entirely private
Tennessee church rallies for kidney donation
ICE arrests Palestinian who helped lead Columbia protests
National Park Service removes more trans content from website
The peril of emptiness upon evil’s return

March 6th, 2025

March 6, 1955: Billy Graham preaches in DC, with President Eisenhower present
Dramatic episode (Cartoon: Fletch)
Not feeling the love (Cartoon: Preacher’s Kids)
Declaration (Cartoon: Joe McKeever)
Abortion bans have saved at least 22,000 babies so far
Mystery of why women age better than men may finally be solved
McDonald’s gives its restaurants an AI makeover
Nine students who vanished on Mexico holiday found dismembered with ‘bag of hands’
Executive Order aims to eliminate Education Department
Mamou mourns after Mardi Gras festivities turn deadly

March 3rd, 2025

Pictures released of person of interest in connection to SU on-campus shooting
Lance Caddel named executive director of Northwest Baptist Convention
Facebook scams on the rise: Tips for spotting fraudulent posts

February 27th, 2025

John 3:16 initiative set for March 16

February 26th, 2025

Christianity in U.S. may no longer be in decline
LCU students earn multiple awards at annual NRB Convention
Rare chalk box discovered in Jerusalem
Survey: U.S. workers more worried than hopeful about future AI use in workplace
House passes budget framework that would allow defunding Planned Parenthood
Grace (Cartoon: Beyond the Ark)
Deep conversation (Cartoon: Fletch)
Church staff by the decades (Cartoon: Joe McKeever)
Christian stabbed in attack on evangelists in Uganda
Opposition arises against church in Indonesia

February 25th, 2025

Newly elected LCU president shares Kingdom vision
Mark Johnson elected 10th president of Louisiana Christian University.

February 24th, 2025

TWO OPINIONS about the Annual Meeting debate regarding culpability for abortions
EVANGELISM 101 (Part 2): Four soul-winning approaches

February 21st, 2025

Quebedeaux’s (Pineville, La.) among USA Today’s ‘Best of 2025’
INTERACTIVE GRAPHICS: How religions will change by global region during the next 50 years