Monday, January 27, 2020

• U.S. remembers Holocaust, counters rising anti-Semitism

  by Diana Chandler, posted Monday, January 27, 2020 (3 years ago)

  

  U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum photo

  WASHINGTON (BP) -- Agi Geva remembers March 19, 1944. It was the day her father Zoltan Laszlo died of illness, and the day Nazis hauled Agi, her mother Rozsa and younger sister Zsuzsanna from their Hungarian home to Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp in Poland.

  "The trip was completely unbelievable and un-understandable how human beings can do such things to other human beings, to let us travel in the way they did," Geva said Monday (Jan. 27) in a U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum interview marking International Holocaust Remembrance Day. Over a period of six weeks, she and 420,000 Jewish people had been packed into cattle cars and hauled by train three and a half days without bathroom facilities to the concentration camp. Read More

• Keck to be nominated for VP of 2021 Pastors' Conference

  by Tess Schoonhoven , posted Monday, January 27, 2020 (3 years ago)

  

  WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (BP) -- Jimmy Scroggins, pastor of Family Church in West Palm Beach, Fla., has announced his intention to nominate Chad Keck, pastor of First Baptist Church Kettering (FBK) in Dayton, Ohio, for vice president of the 2021 Southern Baptist Convention (SBC) Pastors' Conference.

  The 2021 Pastors' Conference will be held in Nashville, Tenn., in conjunction with the 2021 SBC annual meeting. Read More

• Christians have Gospel to offer in pro-life cause

  by Tom Strode, posted Monday, January 27, 2020 (3 years ago)

  

  WASHINGTON (BP) -- Evangelical Christians primarily have the Gospel to offer within a pro-life movement that should transcend politics in what will be a battle far into the future, Southern Baptist ethicist Russell Moore said Jan. 23 on the eve of the March for Life.

  Moore, president of the Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission (ERLC), told those gathered for the fifth annual Evangelicals for Life (EFL) event the great resource they have as pro-lifers "is not a stack of polling data. What you have is not the crowd. What you have is the cross. And we're the people who can say, 'Behold the Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world.'" Read More

• Student uses locker to pray for classmates

  by Tess Schoonhoven, posted Monday, January 27, 2020 (3 years ago)

  

  Photo by Candace Farris

  PELL CITY, Ala., (BP) -- To help meet the needs of fellow classmates, 16-year-old junior Brianna Farris started a "prayer locker" ministry at her school -- Pell City High School.

  Students can write down and leave requests of any nature in the locker. Brianna then takes them home and prays for them individually. Read More

• Baptist workers join those remembering the Holocaust

  by Kelvin Joseph, posted Monday, January 27, 2020 (3 years ago)

  

  Photo by Kelvin Joseph

  KRAKÓW, Poland (BP) -- The twisting of my gut was expected, but it was much deeper than I had imagined. Standing in the place where Nazi Germans murdered more than a million Jews and thousands of other people deemed undesirable, I could not escape the feeling. This wave of emotion flooded over me as I walked through the Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum, near Kraków, Poland, the city my wife and I have moved to in order to serve with the IMB.

  January 27, 2020, marks the 75th anniversary celebration of the day when the Soviet army liberated the Auschwitz-Birkenau camp in January 1945. Read More

• Midwest ministry leaders embrace missional resurgence

  by Meredith Flynn/Illinois Baptist, posted Monday, January 27, 2020 (3 years ago)

  

  Illinois Baptist photo

  SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (BP) -- Secular pundits say the evangelical church is on its way out, Southern Baptist Convention President J.D. Greear said at the Midwest Leadership Summit in Springfield, Ill.

  Things are changing, Greear admitted, but proposed that God might be reviving His church. Read More

• FIRST-PERSON: Why we mourn celebrities we've never met

  by Jared C. Wellman, posted Monday, January 27, 2020 (3 years ago)

  

  Pastor and author Jared Wellman examines, "How can I be so despondent over a person I've never met? And why is anyone ever upset over the unexpected passing of a celebrity they don't personally know?" Read More