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May 26th, 2025

ALLEGATION: Generac fired Christian employee for not using preferred pronouns
Religious freedom battle erupts as New Jersey town attempts to turn church property into pickleball courts

May 21st, 2025

PEW study: Thirty percent of Americans consult astrology, tarot cards or fortune tellers
Kay Arthur, Christian author and Bible teacher, dies at 91
PAKISTAN: Bill to curb child marriages passes parliament
WISCONSIN: Turner named Minnesota-Wisconsin Baptist Convention executive director

May 19th, 2025

FIRST PERSON: As goes the family, so goes the culture
Questionable (Cartoon: Preacher’s Kids)
Group hug fears (Cartoon: Fletch)
Prayer thoughts (Cartoon: Joe McKeever)
PREVIEW: SBC 2025
2025 Q1: Send Network Louisiana yields 141 decisions, 68 baptisms
LBC EC: Seek, strengthen, cooperate
LBC EB updated on CP, entities
LCU graduates urged to lean on God
Louisiana Notables

May 14th, 2025

Baptist leaders celebrate CP’s 100th anniversary
Will Graham says young people ‘spiritually hungry’ for faith, connection: ‘Looking for real relationships’
Alaska’s Covington rescinds resignation, affirmed to continue
Bill to make pornography a federal crime introduced by GOP senator
AAA: Americans embracing road trips for upcoming Memorial Day weekend

May 12th, 2025

From pulpits to politics: LCU president leads bold season of growth and outreach across Louisiana

May 8th, 2025

Harmon sibling trio to graduate from LCU in May

May 7th, 2025

America wants a God
ILLINOIS: An astronaut’s lesson in church attendance

May 6th, 2025

Gospel singer, songwriter Squire Parsons now in ‘Sweet Beulah Land’
New study reveals Pompeii family’s last moments during Mount Vesuvius eruption
TENNESSEE: Church baptizes 35 inmates
Fatherly advice (Cartoon: Preacher’s Kids)
Practical joker (Cartoon: Church of the Covered Dish)
Pray (Cartoon: Joe McKeever)
What are you living for?
Washington state cuts $8.5 million from abortion program
Franklin Parish, CENLA retreats harvest souls
North Monroe men’s retreat is a time of soul winning

May 5th, 2025

CALIFORNIA: Low income now means six figures in Bay area
FLORIDA: ‘BeachReachers’ impact their generation one van ride at a time

May 2nd, 2025

Trump signs order aiming to cut funding to NPR, PBS
Texas Senate passes bill stopping abortion pills
Employers added 177,000 jobs in April despite tariff uncertainty
TikTok slapped with $600 million fine over illegal data transfers to China

May 1st, 2025

NOBTS Caskey Center Conference encourages pastors
NOBTS trustees hear positive reports, look toward future
ILLINOIS: Church reaches out to neighbors following tragedy
NIGERIA: Truck ramming into Easter procession ruled intentional
British woman, 115, named world’s oldest person
Transgender women soccer players to be banned from English women’s teams
McDonald’s suffers worst U.S. sales decline since 2020

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