As I write this article, there are groups in the church, finalizing travel plans and checking on last minute details. In the next several weeks, groups from the church will be loading up the vans, getting into cars, and even boarding airplanes to travel elsewhere, taking with them a part of this place. As those…
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You cannot make the painting fit the room. You have to make the room fit the painting. First, you hang the painting on the wall, and then you rearrange the room around it. And, so it is with the life of faith. [button link=”http://bit.ly/1qJktq3″]Download MP3 Audio File[/button]
This fall, Dr. Charlotte Ward and Mike McClanahan team-up to present Painting the Stars: Science, Religion and an Evolving Faith. Celebrating the communion of science and faith, Painting the Stars explores the promise of evolutionary Christian spirituality. Featuring over a dozen leading theologians and thinkers, participants are invited to join us for Discipleship Training, where…
Hymn #309 in Celebrating Grace Hymnal — “When in Our Music God Is Glorified” [pullquote_center width=”60%”]So has the Church, in liturgy and song, In faith and love, through centuries of wrong, Borne witness to the truth in every tongue: Alleluia![/pullquote_center] I will admit it… I’m partial. I believe that the most enduring, penetrating, impacting method…
Just in case you have been out of town for several weeks and have not kept up with events here at Auburn First Baptist, there is a lot happening! We are excited that our Pastor Search Committee is not only in place and have elected their co-chairs—Pooie Cantrell and Mark Wilson—but they have diligently begun…
As we celebrate Auburn First Baptist Church’s 175th Anniversary, we hope to make this coming year—as we look to our past and anticipate our future—a year of celebration and renewal. Since the time of First Baptist’s founding in 1838, certainly one aspect of who we are today as a congregation stems from the lives and…