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Ashland Baptist schedules revival

ASHLAND, La. - Ashland Baptist Church will host a revival, March 19-22. Services on Sunday are scheduled for 11 a.m. and 6 p.m., and Monday-Wednesday, 6:30 p.m. Sam Moore will bring the messages and the Mackey Willis Family will lead worship. Danny Slack is the pastor. … [Read more...]

LCU C3 speaker: ‘You’re our best hope’ toward racial reconciliation

By LCU News PINEVILLE, La. (LCU News) – Robert Freeman challenged students during the Louisiana Christian University’s Christ, Church, Culture (C3) event, Feb. 27, to be the generation to bring about racial reconciliation by having authentic conversations with each other. Freeman, a nationally recognized speaker and facilitator on the issue, shared how a cultural and racial divide in the United States shaped his identity as a young man who grew up on the Mason-Dixon line, which is known as the boundary between the Southern slave states and Northern free states. “God surrounded me with people who were different from me to have conversations with,” said Freeman, founder of Robert Freeman Ministries. “Out the back door, it was the North, and out the front door was the South. I grew up on this Mason-Dixon line, and God has used me as an instrument of peace and reconciliation.” Freeman shared how he lost his mother as a teenager, and a family, she had worked for, filled the gap and treated him as their own. Alice and Edward Taylor (a white family) told him they felt led by the Lord to take care of him and at 16 he became a Christ follower. The Taylors, along with his high school cross country coach, later paid for him to … [Read more...]

LCU business school forms partnership with Ron Blue Institute

By Brian Blackwell, Baptist Message staff writer PINEVILLE, La. (LBM) – Louisiana Christian University’s Young School of Business has entered into a partnership with the Ron Blue Institute, an organization that helps teach students about biblical financial stewardship. The partnership will allow the school to access the institute’s library, courses and speakers. Additionally, the school will require all business majors beginning in the fall semester to take Biblical Financial Management, a new course based on Blue’s literature and eventually will create a center for biblical financial literacy, Young School of Business Dean Kenny Holt said during a news conference, Feb. 28, inside Granberry Conference Center. “This alliance is another way we prepare graduates and transform lives,” Holt said. “We want to commit this alliance to the hands of God and pray that the blessings that flow from this day are all for the glory of His Kingdom.” According to its website, the Ron Blue Institute “seeks to be a thought leader with great influence committed to changing the way Christians think, act, and communicate about financial stewardship, empowering the church, and changing the world. The institute delivers biblically-based … [Read more...]