Ky. Baptists provide meals, water, after devastating West Va. floods
CHARLESTON, W.Va. (BP)--Southern Baptist disaster relief teams from Kentucky arrived in southern West Virginia July 12 to help victims of floodwaters that crashed through eight counties July 8, and wiped out two towns.
Plans for SBC annual meeting not derailed by rainstorms
NEW ORLEANS (BP)--The annual meeting of the Southern Baptist Convention, scheduled to convene Tuesday, June 12, is proceeding as planned despite southeast Louisiana's weather-related problems at the end of the first week of June.
Piper says prayer is essential in battling spiritual warfare
WAKE FOREST, N.C. (BP)–Just as Olympic athletes are at war with their bodies, so in the spiritual realm “life is war” for Christians, a prominent evangelical author and minister told students at Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary, Wake Forest, N.C., during the annual Carver-Barnes Lectures, Sept. 24-25. And just as the Olympians are free to reach […]
Wedgwood tragedy cited in his call for churches to review security plans
ATLANTA (BP)–“It grieves me to think that it takes people getting killed, buildings being burned and children being scarred for life to get people to take a serious look at the issues,” said David Henderman, director of OSI Network, a Christian security and investigation firm in the Atlanta area. Over the past year many churches […]
Clinton, media, FBI fail to count Wedgwood shootings as hate crime
FORT WORTH, Texas (BP)--Many Christians remain troubled why the Wedgwood tragedy -- the worst church shooting in U.S. history -- was not officially classified as a hate crime and why it has not received more attention from elected leaders and the media.
Sin fascinates, assassinates, Adrian Rogers tells seminarians
WAKE FOREST, N.C. (BP)–Sin often is a combination of three things: an undetected weakness, an unexpected temptation and an unprotected life, Adrian Rogers told students at Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary during the annual fall convocation on the Wake Forest, N.C., campus, Aug. 22. “Put those three together and you have the making of tragedy,” said […]
Colleagues, students honor Patterson with Festschrift
ORLANDO, Fla. (BP)–As Paige Patterson stepped down from his second consecutive year as president of the Southern Baptist Convention, his colleagues and students debuted a Festschrift in his honor as the SBC met in Orlando, June 13-14. The Festschrift, a volume of writings by different authors presented as a tribute to a scholar, is titled […]
Charles Lowery challenges grads to live a life full of thanks
WAKE FOREST, N.C. (BP)–Serving the Lord is directly tied to a joy-filled life of thanksgiving, a pastor of one of America’s fastest-growing churches told 193 Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary graduates May 20. “Do you realize that if you don’t know how to serve the Lord, you’re never really going to be glad?” said Charles Lowery, […]
Southern Baptist family of Navy pilot, listed MIA 27 years, finds closure
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (BP)--Carole Hall has waited 27 years for her Navy pilot husband, Cmdr. James Wayne Hall, to come home from Vietnam. The war officially ended 25 years ago this month. Jim is home now, though not the way Carole secretly had hoped while she courageously persevered for nearly three decades, raising their three children and welcoming two grandchildren into the world.
Set parameters in ministry by making Christ priority, Jimmy Draper says
WAKE FOREST, N.C. (BP)–A Christ-honoring ministry hinges largely on establishing some non-negotiables, said the president of LifeWay Christian Resources of the Southern Baptist Convention. James T. Draper Jr. said effective ministry in the 21st century involves two fundamental issues: “renunciations” and “proclamations,” in March 22-23 Spring Conference lectures at Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary, Wake Forest, […]
