Monday, February 03, 2020

• TRUSTEES: WMU celebrates global mission, sets offering goals

  by Julie Walters, posted Monday, February 03, 2020 (3 years ago)

  

  Photo by Van Payne

  BIRMINGHAM, Ala. -- From Alaska and Hawaii to Maine and Florida, Woman's Missionary Union (WMU) board members and state leaders from across the U.S. gathered at national WMU in Birmingham for their biannual board meeting, Jan. 11–13.

  More than 200 were in attendance, including representatives from the International Mission Board (IMB) and North American Mission Board (NAMB) to share inspiring stories and hear updates of God at work around the world. Read More

• Southern Baptists remember 50th anniversary of historic Asbury revival

  by Tobin Perry, posted Monday, February 03, 2020 (3 years ago)

  

  Screen capture from Asbury University at www.asbury.edu

  Fort Worth, Texas (BP) -- Southern Baptists remembering a historic revival that swept through Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary in Fort Worth, Texas, say remembering what God did in the midst of one divisive period of American history should motivate believers to pray for it again.

  This month marks a half century since revival broke out at Asbury College and Seminary in Wilmore, Ky., on Feb. 3 of 1970. Thanks to the testimonies of those Asbury students, the revival spread to college campuses and seminaries throughout the United States. Asbury students visited Southwestern in March of that year and spoke after a chapel service, launching the revival at the Southern Baptist seminary. Read More

• SBC DIGEST: SEBTS sanctity of life focus; Chitwood challenges students

  by Lauren Pratt and Ann Lovell, posted Monday, February 03, 2020 (3 years ago)

  

  SEBTS emphasizes sanctity of human life during semester's opening week, celebrates 25 years of The College at Southeastern. Paul Chitwood tells California Baptist University students, "Jesus is worthy of your life." Read More

• Abortion survivor laments Super Bowl ad rejection

  by Erin Roach, posted Monday, February 03, 2020 (3 years ago)

  MESQUITE, Texas (BP) -- Josiah Presley, one of the abortion survivors featured in a 30-second ad that Fox Sports chose not to run during the Super Bowl, is a Criswell College graduate and a youth pastor at Galloway Avenue Baptist Church in Mesquite, Texas.

  "Can you look me in the eye and tell me that I shouldn't be alive?" Presley asks in the ad made by Faces of Choice. The group's founder said she repeatedly met additional terms set forth by Fox and in the end was not given a suitable reason why the ad was rejected. Read More

• FIRST-PERSON: Relational connectedness is imperative in our cooperation

  by Ronnie Floyd, posted Monday, February 03, 2020 (3 years ago)

  

  The cooperation we share in the Gospel and its advancement depends upon our relational connectedness, Ronnie Floyd says. Talking about cooperation is much easier than living out our cooperation. Read More