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Barry McCarty: What your vote does and does not do

September 6, 2016

By Barry McCarty, Christian Examiner

FORT WORTH, Texas (Christian Examiner) — A lot of you are confusing the “consent of the governed,” which is what happens in a political election, with some sort of absolute moral affirmation of everything the candidate you vote for has ever said or done.

Your vote does nothing of the sort.

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APOLOGETICS 101 (Part 8): The epic of Jonah is not a ‘fish tale’

By Will Hall, Baptist Message executive editor ALEXANDRIA, La. (LBM)—For critics of the Bible, the account of Jo­nah’s evangelistic mission to Nineveh is just a “whale of a story.” But they and many Christians miss the point of Jonah’s message. The issue is not “how” God de­livered Jonah to Nineveh. Instead, … Read More

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