Friday, March 16, 2018

• Collegians in NYC witness 'the sadness, the lostness'

  by Grace Thornton, posted Friday, March 16, 2018 (4 years ago)

  

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  NEW YORK CITY (BP) -- Reagan Grisham said she's visited nine countries in her lifetime and left a piece of her heart in each one.

  But when she landed in New York City for Passport New York, she said God did something unexpected -- He gathered all of those pieces up.

  "I thought it would be just another short-term trip," said Grisham, a senior at Howard Payne University in Brownwood, Texas. "But it turned out to be life-changing. There are people here from all of those countries that I visited. And God affirmed a call for me to stay and plant my life here." Read More

• At wedding, missions inspires creative gift

  by Tobin Perry, posted Friday, March 16, 2018 (4 years ago)

  

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  BLUEFIELD, Va. (BP) -- As Eric Mason and Amber Fowler put the final touches on their March 10 wedding, the couple turned their attention to what kind of favors they wanted to give guests who attended the reception. Maybe they'd hand out candies, candles or bubbles. But they didn't figure any of the traditional wedding-reception favors would last long. They'd be eaten, used or stuck on a shelf and likely forgotten.

  The couple instead hoped to use the funds to do something that lasted a bit longer, an effort that would have eternal consequences. They began to look at a variety of charitable gifts that would make better use of the money they'd normally spend on the favors. Read More

• Cavaliers coach leans on biblical principles

  by Aaron Earls, posted Friday, March 16, 2018 (4 years ago)

  

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  CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. (BP) -- The Virginia Cavaliers began the regular season unheralded and unranked. They ended it as the No. 1 team in the country and a favorite going into this year's NCAA men's basketball tournament -- with many giving credit to their faith-fueled coach.

  Tony Bennett has been around basketball for much of his life, due in part to his father and retired coach Dick Bennett.

  But a love of basketball is not all the elder Bennett passed down. Tony Bennett watched his father develop a way to coach basketball that honored Christ. And he has built the Virginia program around the biblical principles of "humility, passion, unity, servanthood and thankfulness" -- what he calls the "Five Pillars." Read More

• Object lesson reaps rewards for hurricane relief

  by Sheila Allen/Northwest Baptist Witness, posted Friday, March 16, 2018 (4 years ago)

  

  GRESHAM, Ore. (BP) -- A hands-on Bible lesson took on a life of its own for 10-year-old Dallas Claytor after attending Sunday services with his parents and sister.

  Young Dallas heard pastor Keith Evans of Pathway Church in Gresham, Ore., preach about the parable of the talents. Evans used unmarked envelopes of money to hand out to unsuspecting volunteers during the sermon in denominations of $10, $20 and $50 each. He then asked each recipient to use the money to bless or encourage someone in coming days.

  "I got the envelope with $50 in it," Claytor said. "The pastor wanted us to multiply the money and make God proud. I was shocked." Read More

• Embezzlement ordeal leaves church 'anxious to move on'

  by Diana Chandler, posted Friday, March 16, 2018 (4 years ago)

  

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  HANNIBAL, Mo. (BP) -- Days before its former treasurer faces arraignment in the alleged embezzlement of more than $300,000 from the congregation, Antioch Baptist Church remains focused on ministry, pastor Jack Emmite told Baptist Press today (March 16).

  [We're] just anxious to move on with what the Lord has for us to be doing," Emmite said. "We're trying to just stay focused on doing ministry right now."

  Donald R. White, 68, of Hannibal was arrested March 9 on two federal counts of wire fraud "in connection with the theft of monies in excess of $300,000 dollars from the parishioners of the Antioch Baptist Church," the Ralls County Sheriff Gerry Dinwiddie announced in a press release. White was transferred to St. Louis for incarceration, the sheriff said. Read More

• FIRST PERSON: Hawking, the cosmos & its Creator

  by Erich Bridges, posted Friday, March 16, 2018 (4 years ago)

  Erich Bridges recounts that Stephen Hawking, an intellectual giant in the scientific world, plied his atheism toward ruling out the possibility of a Creator. Now, he is making a new discovery in the eternity he faces with all who preceded him in death, Bridges writes. Read More

• EDITORIAL: Cuando un Cristiano muere físicamente

  by Peter Citelli, posted Friday, March 16, 2018 (4 years ago)

  Recientemente, mientras presidía el funeral de uno de los diáconos de nuestra Iglesia, varios no creyentes en el servicio de memorial estaban admirados porque cantábamos con gran entusiasmo, himnos llenos de fe y de esperanza. ... Read More

• El pastor de California, A.B. Vines será nominado a 1er vicepresidente

  Por David Roach , posted Friday, March 16, 2018 (4 years ago)

  

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  DALLAS (BP) -- El pastor de California, A.B. Vines será nominado para primer vicepresidente de la Convención Bautista del Sur, anunció hoy (13 de marzo) el expresidente de la SBC, Johnny Hunt.

  Vines "es un amigo personal cercano que tiene un profundo amor por nuestra convención," le dijo Hunt, pastor de First Baptist Church en Woodstock, Ga., a Baptist Press vía correo electrónico. "En nuestro tiempo juntos él muy frecuentemente habla de su pasión por servir y hacernos mejor juntos como convención." Read More

• El matrimonio infantil en la tabla de picar en algunos estados de EE.UU.

  Por Diana Chandler , posted Friday, March 16, 2018 (4 years ago)

  

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  NASHVILLE (BP) -- Una víctima de violación de 11 años en Florida, una alumna de noveno grado de 14 años en Texas, una chica abusada de 16 años en Kentucky. Ellas están entre las miles de chicas forzadas a casarse con hombres adultos en los pasados 50 años bajo leyes que permiten tales uniones en la mayoría de los estados de EE.UU.

  "Esto no se trata de mí. Yo sobreviví," Sherry Johnson de 58 años le dijo al noticiero de la CBS cuando Florida aprobó un proyecto de ley el 9 de marzo que limita el matrimonio a aquellos mayores de 17 años. Violada a los 9 años y madre biológica a los 10, ella tenía 11 cuando su propia madre biológica la forzó a casarse con un hombre en sus 20s, ... Read More

• J. Robert White de Georgia anuncia planes para jubilarse 

  Por Gerald Harris  , posted Friday, March 16, 2018 (4 years ago)

  

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  DULUTH, Ga. (BP) -- El director ejecutivo de la Junta Bautista de Misiones de Georgia (GBMB), J. Robert White indicó su intención de jubilarse después de más de 25 años en el puesto en una carta que leyó al comité ejecutivo de la GBMB hoy (13 de marzo).

  White, de 71 años, anunció que su jubilación se haría efectiva el 31 de diciembre de 2018, cuando haya completado los 26 años como director ejecutivo de la junta de misiones.

  Aunque White creció en Florida y Alabama, sirvió como pastor de la Iglesia Bautista ... Read More

• En el NOBTS se honra el legado de Billy Graham con un púlpito histórico

  Por Gary D. Myers, posted Friday, March 16, 2018 (4 years ago)

  

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  NUEVA ORLEANS (BP) -- El descolorido púlpito al frente de la Capilla Leavell del New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary parecía estar fuera de lugar durante la primera semana de marzo. Fuera de lugar a menos que uno pudiera ver la firma de Billy Graham grabada en su tapa.

  El desgastado, maltratado púlpito es uno de los que usó Billy Graham durante su cruzada por Nueva Orleans en 1954. Del 3 al 31 de octubre de 1954, Graham predicó el Evangelio ante las multitudes en el Pelican Stadium y el Tulane Stadium en la ciudad. Read More

• EDITORIAL: Cuando un Cristiano muere físicamente

  Peter Citelli, posted Friday, March 16, 2018 (4 years ago)

  Recientemente, mientras presidía el funeral de uno de los diáconos de nuestra Iglesia, varios no creyentes en el servicio de memorial estaban admirados porque cantábamos con gran entusiasmo, himnos llenos de fe y de esperanza. ... Read More