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Post Hurricane Laura
It has been about 8 weeks since Hurricane Laura, the strong category 4 hurricane out of the gulf, hit Southwest Louisiana. With sustained winds of 150 mph at landfall, Laura brought great destruction to Southwest Louisiana as a whole. Our church, First Baptist Church of Longville, received a portion of that destruction. You can find…
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The Necessity of Rebuke
To rebuke somebody is to tell somebody that they have done wrong. It is, figuratively speaking, a verbal spanking (Ps. 141:5)! A godly rebuke, one that honors the Lord, is to lovingly tell somebody they have done wrong with the aim of bringing them to repentance and restoration (Gal. 6:1). An ungodly rebuke, one that…
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The Danger of Theological Indifference
The Christian faith lends itself to mental effort. Just think about this: we serve a God that has revealed himself in the Bible. In other words, we serve a God that has revealed himself in letters, words, sentences, paragraphs, books, and one body of books…the Bible! And the Bible is filled with rebukes of false…
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Why Read Christian Biography?
I have enjoyed reading Christian biography ever since the Lord saved me my freshmen year of college. To put it in perspective, I have been a Christian for a little less than ten years and have read (or listened to) forty-three biographies. Reading Christian biography is a discipline that I have cultivated, and this is…
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Childcare Volunteers-Missed People on Sunday Mornings
Sundays During Quarantine For our church in Louisiana, we have not been able to gather together for four weeks. It has been even longer for other churches in our area as well as around the country. This means that Christian families have had numerous Sunday mornings where they wake up, try to cultivate some type…
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Social Distancing @ the McDuffie House
It is a strange time. COVID-19 has done significant damage to Louisiana, and has upended life for many people. The governor of Louisiana issued a Stay at Home Order on March 22 that would last until the early parts of April. He then extended the Stay at Home Order to last until April 30. And…
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The First Commandment
“You shall have no other gods before me.” Last year I wrote a blog on the seventh commandment that listed out its meaning as well as some applications that followed. Within this blog, I want to do something similar with the first commandment. Let’s begin looking at this famous commandment. The Importance of this Commandment…
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Philip McDuffie 