Thursday, January 09, 2020

• FIRST-PERSON: Clarity in the New Year

  by Ronnie Floyd, posted Thursday, January 09, 2020 (2 years ago)

  

  At the start of a new year, Ronnie Floyd reviews where Southern Baptists are and where they are heading. Read More

• EXPLAINER: ERLC, George Soros and Evangelical Immigration Table

  by BP Explainer, posted Thursday, January 09, 2020 (2 years ago)

  

  NASHVILLE (BP) -- A Breitbart.com article recently highlighted the Evangelical Immigration Table (EIT), an organization credited with persuading multiple governors to allow refugees to resettle in their states. The article also suggested the group has ties to the progressive billionaire George Soros. A number of blogs have circulated these rumors, charging the group and those affiliated with it as advancing an "open borders" mass immigration agenda. These claims have proved to be false. Read More

• LifeWay to host free VBS preview simulcast January 10

  by Joy Allmond, posted Thursday, January 09, 2020 (2 years ago)

  

  NASHVILLE (BP) -- As hundreds gather at Ridgecrest Conference Center for Friday's kickoff of the 2020 VBS preview series, anyone -- for the first time ever -- can watch from around the globe.

  On Jan. 10 at 7 p.m. ET, LifeWay will live stream the evening session of their "Concrete & Cranes" preview event from the conference center near Asheville, N.C., for free. Read More

• NAMB honors pioneer missionary to deaf, Carter Bearden

  by Tobin Perry, posted Thursday, January 09, 2020 (2 years ago)

  

  Photo by Alexandra Toy/NAMB

  ALPHARETTA, Ga. -- Twelve-year-old Robert Moore couldn't take his eyes off the dynamic preacher in front of him at his deaf school in St. Augustine, Fla. As Carter Bearden preached the Bible in the spring of 1971, young Moore listened intently.

  "It was really fascinating because he was a very dramatic, charismatic preacher," said Moore, who himself later became a pastor to the deaf and currently serves as a board member of the Southern Baptist Conference of the Deaf (SBCD). "He moved around. You didn't lose eye contact with him because he was very fluid and interesting to watch. That really made an impression on me." Read More

• SBC DIGEST: New SBTS VP; New campus pastor at TMU; West Virginia Baptists pray and fast

  by SBTS, TMU, WVCSB and BP Staff, posted Thursday, January 09, 2020 (2 years ago)

  

  O'Neill appointed Southern Seminary VP for accounting and finance; Kennedy appointed campus pastor at Truett McConnell University; Campbell issues call to prayer for West Virginia Baptists. Read More

• Bible Study: Heaven's hope for sinful humanity

  by Staff/LifeWay Christian Resources, posted Thursday, January 09, 2020 (2 years ago)

  

  Creation groans because of sin's devastation. In this study from Bible Studies for Life, pastor Chad Keck and his wife Candace discuss the hope that assures Christians of better things to come.

  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. Read More

• Cambodian man travels difficult road to healing

  by Caroline Anderson, posted Thursday, January 09, 2020 (2 years ago)

  

  IMB photo

  CAMBODIA (BP) -- Chamroeun Siet's* road to full dependence on Jesus was a gradual one, and it wasn't without painful bumps -- electrocution, skin grafts and alcoholism recovery -- but it's a story of God's physical and spiritual healing.

  Before committing his life to Christ and partnering with IMB workers in Southeast Asia, Siet was an alcoholic, spending all of his family's money on alcohol. One night, after throwing plates across the room and breaking things around his house in a drunken rage, he saw his mother crying in the corner and realized he needed help. Read More