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Thursday, May 05, 2016

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  • Millennial church launches with 8 baptisms
    by Mark Kelly, posted Thursday, May 05, 2016 (6 years ago)

    Photo courtesy Heart Cry Gathering
    PHOENIX (BP) -- Some might say Queen Creek, Ariz., is growing fast enough to make a person's head spin. In just three years, a city of 29,673 southeast of Phoenix has exploded to an estimated 50,000 people.

    But Trey Van Camp's head isn't spinning. His heart is broken.

    "I was born and raised here. Queen Creek is one of fastest ... Read More

  • Missing NOBTS student found in Ala. hospital
    by Gary D. Myers, posted Thursday, May 05, 2016 (6 years ago)

    NEW ORLEANS (BP) -- New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary student John Russell, missing since April 22, has been found in an Alabama hospital. He has been in the ICU at D.W. McMillan Hospital in Brewton, Ala., since April 22 following an accident.

    Hospital officials were unable to identify Russell until May 4. After identifying Russell, who is still in ICU, Alabama authorities notified NOBTS that he had been found. Russell's mother has been ... Read More

  • N.C., Target transgender restroom debates rage on
    by David Roach, posted Thursday, May 05, 2016 (6 years ago)

    NASHVILLE (BP) -- In the continuing political debate of transgender restroom policies, one U.S. state has received a threat from the Obama administration over its restroom use restrictions while another has asked discount retailer Target to explain how it will protect women and children from abuse of an open restroom policy.

    North Carolina pro-family leaders say the Obama administration has engaged in "bullying" and an "attack on religious freedom" by ... Read More

  • U.S. distress from God, Evans says at prayer event
    by Tom Strode, posted Thursday, May 05, 2016 (6 years ago)

    "[W]hat you and I are seeing in America is what happens when a culture disregards God." -- Tony Evans
    WASHINGTON (BP) -- God is troubling this country to grab the attention of Americans, Tony Evans told participants Thursday (May 5) in a National Day of Prayer event in Washington, D.C.

    Evans, senior pastor of Oak Cliff Bible Fellowship in Dallas, was the keynote speaker at the Capitol Hill observance, which was one of tens of thousands of such events across the country. This year's National Day of Prayer (NDP) was the 65th since the ... Read More

  • Chinese student becomes leader in campus ministry
    by Scott Barkley/Georgia Christian Index, posted Thursday, May 05, 2016 (6 years ago)

    Submitted photo
    MACON, Ga. (BP) -- For a long time, international student Hilary Tong's personality reflected how she lived her faith. Quiet. Reserved about her relationship with Christ.

    That may sound odd for a communications major. But there's a meticulousness in how the Chinese native now is more outward in her witness among international students at her college and throughout Georgia. Read More

  • Child abuse prevention among Southern Baptist aims
    by Diana Chandler, posted Thursday, May 05, 2016 (6 years ago)

    Submitted photo
    NASHVILLE (BP) -- Southern Baptists were represented among many groups planting pinwheels in gardens across America this spring to spotlight child abuse prevention and spread awareness of the 700,000 children in the U.S. who are maltreated each year.

    Accepted as symbolic of the innocent whimsy of childhood, more than 5 million pinwheels have been distributed nationally during ... Read More

  • Bible Study: May 8, 2016
    by By staff/LifeWay Christian Resources, posted Thursday, May 05, 2016 (6 years ago)

    NASHVILLE (BP) -- This weekly Bible study appears in Baptist Press in a partnership with LifeWay Christian Resources of the Southern Baptist Convention. Through its Leadership and Adult Publishing team, LifeWay publishes Sunday School curricula and additional resources for all age groups.

    This week's Bible study is adapted from the Bible Studies For Life curriculum. Read More

  • FIRST-PERSON: Consequences of inaction
    by Frankie Melton, posted Thursday, May 05, 2016 (6 years ago)

    A visit to Auschwitz reminds Frankie Melton of "the terrible consequences of inaction." In societies "without the moral rudder of a just and righteous God," there is no end to "the atrocities human beings can unleash on fellow human beings," Melton, a Christian studies professor at North Greenville University, writes. Read More