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Friday, May 03, 2019

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  • Nat'l Day of Prayer: Love, forgive radically

    by Grace Thornton, posted Friday, May 03, 2019 (3 years ago)

    Photo by Bud Sullins
    WASHINGTON (BP) -- "From the church house to the state house and all the way to the White House, we need to learn how to love one another," Ronnie Floyd told the crowd present at a National Day of Prayer (NDP) observance May 2 in the U.S. Capitol.

    "I want to remind everyone here tonight -- government cannot fix us. Politics cannot heal us. But loving one another can change the world," said Floyd, NDP Task Force president and president-elect of the Southern Baptist Convention Executive Committee. Read More

  • USCIRF commends U.S., seeks more on religious liberty
    by Tom Strode, posted Friday, May 03, 2019 (3 years ago)

    WASHINGTON (BP) -- The Trump administration again demonstrated a commitment to global religious liberty in 2018, but the United States and other countries must do more to hold severe violators accountable, the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom said in its 2019 report. Read More

  • Islam in N. America event urges hope, not fear

    by Brandon Elrod, posted Friday, May 03, 2019 (3 years ago)

    Photo by Micaiah Davis/NAMB
    ALPHARETTA, Ga.(BP) -- By the year 2050, the Muslim population in North America is reportedly projected to double. That figure might trouble some people in the United States, but pastor Micah Fries believes Christians have no reason to be concerned.

    The North American Mission Board hosted an event on Thursday (May 2), in Alpharetta, Ga., based on Fries' and Keith Whitfield's book, "Islam and North America: Loving our Muslim Neighbors." Nearly 40 attended in person and roughly 300 individuals and locations joined by simulcast. Read More

  • Hispanic Baptist unity: a Gospel imperative
    by Art Toalston, posted Friday, May 03, 2019 (3 years ago)

    BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (BP) -- Unity is a biblical mandate vital for empowering Hispanic Baptists' witness for Christ, two leaders said in setting forth their vision for cooperative efforts that transcend cultural impediments.

    Jonathan Santiago and Daniel Sanchez, two longtime Hispanic leaders in Southern Baptist life, responded to questions from Baptist Press about Hispanic unity in view of the June 10 gathering, "Celebrating Our Diversity and Unity in Christ" in Birmingham, Ala., prior to the SBC's June 11-12 annual meeting. Read More

  • Volunteers still needed for historic Midwest flooding
    by Tobin Perry, posted Friday, May 03, 2019 (3 years ago)

    Photo by Nick Burt/Arkansas Baptist State Convention
    DAVENPORT, Iowa (BP) -- Amid continued historic flooding in the Midwest, Southern Baptist Disaster Relief volunteers are working their way through more than 1,400 mud-out requests for homes devastated during the disaster.

    The timing is critical to saving homes in the impacted region, said Sam Porter, national director for SBDR at the North American Mission Board. Read More

  • FROM THE SEMINARIES: MBTS journal explores John's Gospel, #MeToo, C.S. Lewis, Charles Spurgeon
    by T. Patrick Hudson, posted Friday, May 03, 2019 (3 years ago)

    KANSAS CITY, Mo. (BP) -- The Gospel of John, the #MeToo Movement, a commonality between C.S. Lewis and T.S. Eliot, the role of the Holy Spirit and Charles Spurgeon are among the topics of the Midwestern Journal of Theology's Spring 2019 issue.

    Jason Allen, president of Midwestern Baptist Theological Seminary, said the essays in the journal, released May 1, provide "truthful insight and thoughtful guidance amidst a world that bends at the whims of the culture." Read More

  • Yeats to be renominated as SBC recording secretary
    by BP Staff, posted Friday, May 03, 2019 (3 years ago)

    BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (BP) -- Missouri Baptist Convention executive director John L. Yeats will be nominated for a 23rd term as the Southern Baptist Convention's recording secretary, Missouri church planter Jon Nelson announced today (May 3). Read More

  • Warren Wiersbe, 'one of evangelicalism's giants,' dies
    by David Roach, posted Friday, May 03, 2019 (3 years ago)

    CHICAGO (BP) -- Warren Wiersbe, an author and pastor credited with influencing thousands of preachers toward biblical exposition, died May 2. He was 89.

    "I first heard Dr. Wiersbe at a Bible conference" in Chattanooga, Tenn., in the early 1960s, said Jerry Vines, a former Southern Baptist Convention president and longtime friend of Wiersbe's. "What I heard him do with Scripture that day changed my preaching forever. He changed me from a topical preacher to a text-driven preacher." Read More

  • FIRST-PERSON: The struggle within
    by Keith Shorter, posted Friday, May 03, 2019 (3 years ago)

    When a follower of Christ makes a mistake or struggles with sin, Keith Shorter writes, God "doesn't pile on when He has every right to. We are people who somehow have incredible worth to the living God." Read More