Posts from December 2025

“In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.” This is how the Bible starts the creation story. Then we read that from chaos God brought order and out of darkness God created light. Ultimately it was out of nothing that God brought forth something. But as great and majestic as all of this is, God’s purposes in creation were much bigger than simply filling the earth with stuff. In Genesis 1:26 God said, “Let us make man in…

“In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.” This is how the Bible starts the creation story. Then we read that from chaos God brought order and out of darkness God created light. Ultimately it was out of nothing that God brought forth something. But as great and majestic as all of this is, God’s purposes in creation were much bigger than simply filling the earth with stuff. In Genesis 1:26 God said, “Let us make man in…

As we continue to remember this month’s focus on international missions, I want to take this opportunity to explain the benefit of learning about missionaries from the past. As Hebrews 12:1 says, “Therefore, since we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, let us also lay aside every weight, and sin which clings so closely, and let us run with endurance the race that is set before us.” Though this passage is referring to Hebrews 11 and the…

Weekly Update – December 4th, 2025  The Christmas offering that we as Southern Baptists participate in every year is named in honor of a woman named Lottie Moon.  On July 7, 1873, the Foreign Mission Board (now International Mission Board) of the Southern Baptist Convention appointed her a missionary to China. Lottie spent most of her missionary years in Tengchow and P’ingtu, China where she taught at mission schools and ministered to women. Through having immersed herself in Chinese culture,…