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Louisiana Pastor Clark Palmer - On a mission to encourage SBC churches/pastors to turn in the Annual Church Profile to get a full/accurate picture of our work.

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25 out of every 100 #SBC churches will not turn in the Annual Church Profile. Let's improve the numbers. Get on board. Spread the word. Encourage your network to #TurnInTheACP. @NOBAJackHunter, @LaneCorley, @shane_pruitt78, @bartbarber, @stephentrammell, @ArkansasBaptists,

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@JoshuaBarzon 3

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@FitHog Same.

[5 Solas @5Solas]

This doesn't happen without a new heart.

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@SBCHistory Do you have a link to the essay mentioned?

[Send Network @sendnetwork]

Bose and Shiny Varghese are planting Family Church South Asians in @sendnetworkar. Last month, they held their first VBS, reaching children and families in their community! Let’s pray as they continue to share the gospel to South Asians living in Rogers, AR!

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@reformadad Praying for wisdom and strength for you and family

[Bryant Wright @bryantwright]

LOSING WEIGHT
https://t.co/Yp39KIZx90

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@andrewhebert86 Really funny

[SBC History @SBCHistory]

OTD in 1768 the sheriff of Spotsylvania County, VA seized Baptist preachers John Waller, Lewis Craig, James Childs, James Reed & William Mash & charged them with disturbing the peace for preaching without a license from the Anglican church. They were kept in prison for 43 days

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Great news! We know about the work of God through SBC churches because of the ACP - the Annual Church Profile. Many don't turn in an ACP. Platform leaders at the Convention: Use 30 seconds of your time to encourage Messengers to turn in the ACP.
https://t.co/1V3A8Jfntx

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@pastor_adam You’ve probably done this . Perhaps make a decision to remove those you can’t locate born before a certain date? 1934? Assuming they have either passed or won’t be returning.

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Good news from @GABaptist world. Note paragraph 3: " The numbers are expected to continue to grow as more congregations complete what’s known as the “Annual Church Profile,” an annual census of Southern Baptist churches."
The ACP tells the story of God at work. Turn yours in.

[Luke Holmes @lukeholmes]

"Simply put, the Cooperative Program works, and as we approach the dawn of the second century of the Cooperative Program, now is the time to restate our commitment to it."

I believe this wholeheartedly, & am glad @SBCReview promotes these conversations. https://t.co/GPJ0U0Otc1

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@lukeholmes @Jeff_Iorg If nothing else for a transitional 2 year interim.

[Geoff Chang @geoffchang]

OTD in 1850, an unknown deacon entered this pulpit to preach. Only a few were present, but he preached the gospel as best he could from Isa 45:22. Little did he know, a young visitor was listening intently.

The course of history would be changed. @SpurgeonMBTS

[Garrett Kell ن @pastorjgkell]

"Don't believe everything you think. You cannot be trusted to tell yourself the truth. Stay in The Word." - Jerry Bridges

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@erichoke Very helpful to me in a “shape up” sort of way

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@pastoratlabelle That’s a great feeling!

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@JCRyle Thank you.

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So very good.

[J.C. Ryle @JCRyle]

In Our Dying Hour by J.C. Ryle

The day may come when after a long fight with disease, we shall feel that medicine can do no more, and that nothing remains but to die. Friends will be standing by, unable to help us. Hearing, eyesight, even the power of praying, will be fast failing us. The world and its shadows will be melting beneath our feet. Eternity, with its realities, will be looming large before our minds.

What shall support us in that trying hour? What shall enable us to feel, ‘I fear no evil’? (Psalm 23:4.) Nothing, nothing can do it but close communion with Christ. Christ dwelling in our hearts by faith,—Christ putting His right arm under our heads,—Christ felt to be sitting by our side,—Christ can alone give us the complete victory in the last struggle.

Let us cleave to Christ more closely, love Him more heartily, live to Him more thoroughly, copy Him more exactly, confess Him more boldly, follow Him more fully. Religion like this will always bring its own reward. Worldly people may laugh at it. Weak brethren may think it extreme. But it will wear well. At even time it will bring us light. In sickness it will bring us peace. In the world to come it will give us a crown of glory that fadeth not away.

The time is short. The fashion of this world passeth away. A few more sicknesses, and all will be over. A few more funerals, and our own funeral will take place. A few more storms and tossings, and we shall be safe in harbour. We travel towards a world where there is no more sickness,—where parting, and pain, and crying, and mourning, are done with for evermore.

Heaven is becoming every year more full, and earth more empty. The friends ahead are becoming more numerous than the friends astern. ‘Yet a little time and He that shall come will come, and will not tarry.’ (Heb. 10:37.) In His presence shall be fulness of joy. Christ shall wipe away all tears from His people’s eyes. The last enemy that shall be destroyed is Death. But he shall be destroyed. Death himself shall one day die. (Rev. 20:14.)

In the meantime let us live the life of faith in the Son of God. Let us lean all our weight on Christ, and rejoice in the thought that He lives for evermore. Yes: blessed be God! Christ lives, though we may die. Christ lives, though friends and families are carried to the grave. He lives who abolished death, and brought life and immortality to light by the Gospel.

He lives who said, ‘O death, I will be thy plagues: O grave, I will be thy destruction.’ (Hos. 13:14.) He lives who will one day change our vile body, and make it like unto His glorious body. In sickness and in health, in life and in death, let us lean confidently on Him. Surely we ought to say daily with one of old, ‘Blessed be God for Jesus Christ!'”