By Felicia Fox on
3/8/2010 3:50 PM
I had an amazing weekend. It was one of those weekends that I know I will be talking about for the rest of my life. It changed me. That’s why I’m sharing this blog with you today instead of the usual Wednesday or Thursday blog.
I spent this weekend in Atlanta delivering the hygiene kits our children made for Haitian refugees to my friend, Amanda. I arrived and quickly learned that she had planned for me to go with her the next morning to meet some of the refugees. It had never crossed my mind that I would be able to meet some of the refuges. The next morning Amanda and I headed out.
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By Dennis Atwood on
3/4/2010 3:52 PM
 From time to time, I hear the occasional comment about the good ole days when the church used to have old fashioned revivals. I remember them well from my youth. Revival services used to last for two weeks. Then they evolved to one week, to Sunday-Wednesday, to Sunday a.m. and p.m., and eventually vanished altogether...
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By Felicia Fox on
3/3/2010 10:13 AM
Monday night over 16 million people watched Jake propose to Vienna. Regardless of which camp you were in, Vienna’s or Tenley’s, you have to admit it made good television. I think I may have been one of the only people in America who did not watch The Bachelor this season. Monday night I was in my room watching the Big Bang Theory. My mother was in the living room watching The Bachelor. I did happen to walk by her TV as Jake popped the question. I stuck around long enough to see Vienna say yes, and then I retreated back to my nerds on the Big Bang Theory.
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By Dennis Atwood on
2/25/2010 3:47 PM
 I saw in the newspaper this morning another signpost… “for those who have ears to hear.” The Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life, has found that more than one-quarter of Americans age 18 to 29 have no religious preference or affiliation, and fewer than one in five attend services regularly. That makes them easily the least religious generation alive today, perhaps the least religious ever...
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By Felicia Fox on
2/24/2010 10:58 AM
I am so looking forward to this Friday. This Friday will be my first day with no church activities in 19 days. I’m ready for it. For the last two weeks I feel like I’ve been running from one major event to another. It will be nice to have a day of rest. Not only have I been working a lot these pass two weeks but I have also been sick. A few people have pointed out the connection with being sin and run down. I guess I might be a little of both.
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By Dennis Atwood on
2/18/2010 3:57 PM
 “God formed man from the dust of the ground,” Genesis tells us. But don’t stop there! The remainder of the text speaks to the nature of humanity. “God breathed into his nostrils the breath of life and man became a living being.” (Gen. 2:7)
The 40 Days of Lent began yesterday on Ash Wednesday for millions of Christians all over the world. I imposed ashes upon the fore ...
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By Dennis Atwood on
2/11/2010 2:37 PM
 It’s official now. Hell has frozen over. The New Orleans Saints are Super Bowl Champions! Growing up in central Mississippi, I was five years old when the New Orleans Saints franchise played its first game. The Saints became a regional NFL team for those of us in Mississippi, Louisiana, and Alabama with no other professional sports teams to cheer for. It wasn’t until 1979 that under the leadership of a quarterback named Archie Manning the Saints had their first “non-losing season” with a record of 8-8. Later came those infamous bags and the nickname the “Aints.” Then in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina having an NFL football team in New Orleans at all was the looming question.
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By Felicia Fox on
2/11/2010 10:40 AM
I have some amazing friends. Until this week I hadn’t put together just how amazing some of my friends are. I’m thinking about three of my friends in particular. I have plenty of amazing friends but for the purpose of this blog, I’ll limit it to three friends I graduated with. I want to introduce you to them now.
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By Dennis Atwood on
2/4/2010 3:30 PM
 We’re beginning a new worship experience at FBC this Sunday (Super Bowl Sunday) and we are excited about it! We’re calling it “Fresh Start.” Why? Well, because it starts early—at 9:00 a.m.—and we hope it will be a fresh encounter with God for people who may be unchurched, de-churched, or churched-yet-stuck-in-a-rut. This has been a slow, deliberate process for us. We have chosen not to jump on some alternative/contemporary worship bandwagon. This is an additional worship service—not an alternative one. The worship we do at First Baptist is probably best described as traditional, somewhat liturgical, and reverent. I like it. Yet in these times we are being beckoned by Jesus to fish for people in deeper, unchar ...
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By Dennis Atwood on
1/28/2010 3:35 PM
 I received the following email forwarded from a fellow-pastor. His friend’s daughter is with a medical mission team from Missouri serving in Haiti. It is an unfiltered first-person account of the human misery and suffering going on following the devastating earthquake. Pray for her and the other medical personnel who are absolutely overwhelmed yet serving heroically in the name of Christ. If you feel compelled to give, please visit the “Helping Haiti” icon on our home page.
You just would not believe the things i have seen. people everywhere with missing limbs. 2 babies died today. one man died with a pulmonary embolism (blood clot) bc they ran out of heparin. our team brought heparin. they are sick and lying on stretchers and bl ...
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