FIRST-PERSON: The unexpected fruit of a hallway conversation
I was speaking at a Texas evangelism event years ago when a young man approached me in the hall to ask if we could have a conversation. We found a quiet place, sat down, and he began telling me his story. He was a church planter, several years into a new church plant that blossomed from its earliest days and was going very well.
FROM THE SEMINARIES: SEBTS Global Missions Week; Gateway/CBU partnership
SEBTS Global Missions Week calls students to consider the nations; Gateway launches one-year master’s program for CBU graduates.
Texas Supreme Court answers questions in Patterson v. Roe case
AUSTIN, Texas (BP) – The Supreme Court of Texas has issued a ruling on two questions raised in a case brought against Paige Patterson and Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary by a plaintiff known as Jane Roe.
God uses suffering, Pressley reminds NOBTS students
NEW ORLEANS (BP) – Clint Pressley, president of the Southern Baptist Convention and senior pastor of Hickory Grove Baptist Church in Charlotte, N.C., explained how suffering prepares people for ministry during a chapel service Feb. 11 at New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary.
Boswell to join MBTS worship faculty
KANSAS CITY, Mo, (BP) – Midwestern Baptist Theological Seminary has announced the addition of pastor and hymn writer Matt Boswell to the faculty as visiting worship leader and professor of worship ministries.
For Austin church with strong ties to seminary, giving to CP is receiving
AUSTIN, Texas -- More than three dozen people from Acts Fellowship Church in Austin have gone to seminary, including 20 who have trained at Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary—a testament to the vitality of a Cooperative Program partnership.
We must ‘know as we ought to know,’ Mohler tells SBTS students
LOUISVILLE, Ky. – “We must not only know, but know as we ought to know.” With these words, President R. Albert Mohler, Jr. welcomed students, faculty, and guests to the Spring 2025 Convocation at Southern Baptist Theological Seminary and Boyce College. As the new academic term begins, the seminary reaffirms its commitment to the pursuit of knowledge – not merely for its own sake, but in service to God and His Church.
Sold-out Abide Women’s Conference focuses on biblical community
NEW ORLEANS – A sold-out crowd of more than 1,200 women gathered for the Abide Women’s Conference at New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary Jan. 31-Feb. 1 to learn more about the importance of biblical community.
SBC DIGEST: New Lifeway women’s Bible studies; New Jared Wilson book
Lifeway spring Bible studies include Rothschild, Woodson, Doctor, Beless; Jared Wilson releases ‘Lest We Drift’
Jim Shaddix, ‘champion of prayer and expository preaching,’ dies at 64
WAKE FOREST, N.C. (BP) – Jim Shaddix, longtime seminary professor, pastor and ministry leader, died after a yearlong battle with brain cancer Feb. 1. He was 64.
