Petros Baptist Church

To John and Jamie C., on the birth of their little boy.  He was born today and weighed in at 6 pounds, 9 ounces and is 19.5 inches long.  Congrats to the happy parents!

Street fighting in Beirut at the end of last week forced the closing on Thursday of the Beirut Baptist School, led to the postponement of a public lecture today at Arab Baptist Theological Seminary and enveloped a BMS World Mission staff member. Associated Press referred on Sunday to the past five days as the “worst sectarian violence since Lebanon’s 1975-1990 civil war.” AP reported that 38 people had been killed. Calling the situation “the country’s worst internal fighting since its bitter 15-year civil war,” BBC News reported that 7,000 had fled from the city of Tripoli.

The Arab Baptist Theological Seminary has sent around a flyer today updating the situation. If you are the praying sort, pray for those folk. There isn’t a very pronounced Baptist presence in the entire middle East and the seminary there trains pastors from all across the region- when they can get there!

A famed theologian once wrote, ‘The whole of the Christian life is Worship. The duty of the Christian is to always remember that he is a part of the Body of Christ.’ I could not agree more. If we lived as authentically as possible always in the presence of God, we would live miraculous lives.