Tuesday, April 30, 2019

• 'Shock and disbelief' after Poway synagogue attack

  by Diana Chandler, posted Tuesday, April 30, 2019 (2 years ago)

  

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  POWAY, Calif. (BP) -- Pastor Darrow Perkins never expected such violence in the six years his church has stood in Poway, Calif., just two miles from Chabad of Poway synagogue.

  "Shock and disbelief" hit the small town when a gunman entered the synagogue during Passover, walked up to Rabbi Yisroel Goldstein and began firing an AR-15-style gun, killing one, injuring the rabbi and two others, and causing panic. Read More

• Venezuela uprising: 'crucial day,' 'divided nation'

  by WORLD and Baptist Press, posted Tuesday, April 30, 2019 (2 years ago)

  

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  CARACAS, Venezuela (BP) -- Venezuelan opposition leader Juan Guaidó on Tuesday (April 30) led a military uprising in the capital city of Caracas against embattled President Nicolás Maduro's government.

  Guaidó reportedly took to the streets with heavily armed soldiers and opposition activist Leopoldo López, whom the military freed from house arrest. In a three-minute video posted early Tuesday on Twitter, Guaidó called on Venezuelans to back the uprising. Read More

• Ronnie Floyd infuses passion into 'How to Pray'

  by Art Toalston, posted Tuesday, April 30, 2019 (2 years ago)

  

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  NASHVILLE (BP) -- Ronnie Floyd is transparent about prayer as foundational and monumental in his life and ministry.

  A passion for prayer marks his personal conversations and his preaching and, now, it fills "How to Pray: Developing an Intimate Relationship with God." Read More

• Sex abuse to be ERLC's national conference focus

  by Tom Strode, posted Tuesday, April 30, 2019 (2 years ago)

  

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  NASHVILLE (BP) -- The crisis of sexual abuse in churches has convinced the Southern Baptist Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission to change the topic of its 2019 national conference.

  The ERLC announced Tuesday (April 30) the theme of this fall's event will be "Caring Well: Equipping the Church to Confront the Abuse Crisis." The conference -- offered in partnership with the SBC Sexual Abuse Presidential Advisory Study Oct. 3-5 at the Gaylord Texan Resort & Convention Center in Grapevine, Texas -- will focus on preventing sexual abuse in churches and ministering to survivors of such abuse. Read More

• 2nd Mozambique cyclone met with prayer, BGR response

  by David Roach, posted Tuesday, April 30, 2019 (2 years ago)

  

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  PEMBA, Mozambique (BP) -- With Mozambique suffering its second major cyclone in the past six weeks, Baptist Global Response has requested prayer for ongoing disaster relief ministry in the southeast African nation.

  "Pray for the people in areas that are completely cut off, that have no access to food and shelter, and cannot communicate with those outside," BGR stated on its website. "Pray for those who are responding to do so quickly, and to have wisdom in the best ways to respond." Read More

• SBC19 mobile app offers 21 languages

  by Diana Chandler, posted Tuesday, April 30, 2019 (2 years ago)

  

  Image courtesy of Core-apps.

  BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (BP) -- Closed captions will be available in 21 languages during the 2019 Southern Baptist Convention Annual Meeting livestream and on the SBC mobile app, an expansion from three languages offered in 2018.

  SBC Executive Committee President-elect Ronnie Floyd champions the language expansion as a major advancement in diversity and in spreading the Gospel globally. Read More

• FROM THE STATES: Tenn., Ill., Fla. evangelism/missions news; 'If the Lord puts a burden on your heart, don't hesitate to respond'

  by BP Staff, posted Tuesday, April 30, 2019 (2 years ago)

  Today's From the States features items from: Baptist and Reflector (Tennessee); Illinois Baptist; Florida Baptist Convention

  Tenn. church makes 'eternal investment'

  By Michael Smith

  BARTLETT, Tenn. (Baptist and Reflector) -- Danny Sinquefield, senior pastor of Faith Baptist Church, Bartlett, since October 1994, is so thankful that his church decided to make an eternal investment when it purchased Camp Cordova, now known as The Grove at Red Oak Lake, for $2 million in 2009.

  Faith Baptist made its 10th and final $150,000 annual payment to the Mid-South Baptist Association during the church's morning worship service Feb. 3. Read More

• FIRST-PERSON: Our ominous 'freedom'

  by Robert Lopez, posted Tuesday, April 30, 2019 (2 years ago)

  Freedom in America, Robert Lopez writes, doesn't mean what it once did when the nation's founders drafted the First Amendment just over 200 years ago. Read More