Mar 17, 2015 | Tuesday Prayers
Creator God, stick with me until I am no longer a reed but a rock. Redirect my path again and again as I trudge toward triumph and reunion, as I stumble toward wholeness. Give me the fortitude to follow Jesus. Amen. -Mary Elizabeth Hanchey
Mar 17, 2015 | Weekly Words
Clearly there had been some mistake. Mark was thirty-four-years old and healthy. He had never even spent a night in the hospital. We had a two-year-old son. We had plans for a vacation and our careers and our family. How could he be having a heart attack and facing...
Mar 16, 2015 | A Monday Devotional
As a young person, I carried a Bible with a list of scripture references, many of them from the Psalms, carefully Scotch-taped inside the cover. Each was a promise, or an encouragement, or a word of hope for a variety of everyday struggles: when you feel afraid, when...
Mar 13, 2015 | +This is What a Minister Looks Like
Every Friday, Baptist Women in Ministry introduces an amazing woman minister, and today we are pleased to introduce you to Deborah Cochran. Deborah, tell us about your current ministry role. I serve The First Baptist Church of the City of Washington, D.C. I was called...
Mar 12, 2015 | +Pam Durso
Most Saturdays at my house tend to be lazy, sleep-late mornings with errand-running, chore-filled afternoons, but Saturday, February 28, was very different. Early that morning my son, Michael, drove me to Smoke Rise Baptist Church in Stone Mountain. By the time the...
