Monday, January 25, 2016

• Pro-lifers raise funds for ultrasound machines

  by Sharon Mager, posted Monday, January 25, 2016 (8 years ago)

  WASHINGTON (BP) -- Ultrasound machines are saving babies from abortion as women who see their babies for the first time decide to give birth to them, said Kelly Rosati during the Evangelicals for Life dinner Jan. 21. Read More

• 'Snowmageddon' doesn't thwart pro-lifers at March for Life

  by Sharon Mager, posted Monday, January 25, 2016 (8 years ago)

  

  Photo by Chad Bartlett

  WASHINGTON (BP) -- Pro-life supporters from across the country braved the elements in Washington, D.C., on Jan. 22, the anniversary of the historic Roe v. Wade decision in 1973 to legalize abortion, to make the annual March for Life from the Washington Monument to the U.S. Supreme Court building.

  Couples, women with babies snug against their chests, students, grandparents, Catholics, Protestants, representatives from the Jewish community, and those with no faith, braved the biting cold, waving signs, cheering and clapping for speakers while covering their faces, rubbing hands together and stamping their feet to stay warm at the starting rally near the Washington Monument. Legislators, pro-life and religious leaders urged marchers to continue their commitment to the pro-life cause. Read More

• Pro-life leaders honored

  by Sharon Mager, posted Monday, January 25, 2016 (8 years ago)

  

  Photo by Sharon Mager

  WASHINGTON (BP) -- Russell Moore, president of the Southern Baptist Convention's Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission (ERLC), along with Jim Daly, president of Focus on the Family, presented awards to three pro-life leaders: David Platt, Charmaine Yoest, and Sen. James Lankford (R-Okla.), for their tireless advocacy in support of the dignity of life.

  The awards were presented during the first Evangelicals for Life dinner at the Hyatt Regency Washington, Capitol Hill, on Jan. 21. The dinner was a component of the inaugural Evangelicals for Life Conference sponsored by the ERLC and Focus on the Family. Read More

• SCOTUS rejects bid to uphold ND fetal heartbeat law

  by David Roach, posted Monday, January 25, 2016 (8 years ago)

  WASHINGTON (BP) -- The Supreme Court announced today (Jan. 25) it will not review a lower court's decision to strike down North Dakota's ban on abortions after six weeks of pregnancy. Read More

• Kelley urges intentional evangelism & disciple-making

  by Gary D. Myers, posted Monday, January 25, 2016 (8 years ago)

  

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  NEW ORLEANS (BP) -- Chuck Kelley issued an urgent call to personal evangelism and intentional discipleship when New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary's president addressed the first chapel of the new semester. Consistent witness and disciple-making in North America, Kelley said, are essential to Southern Baptist mission efforts in local communities and throughout the world. Read More

• Evangelism rally slated at Baptist university

  by Tim Ellsworth, posted Monday, January 25, 2016 (8 years ago)

  

  Photo by Kristi Woody

  JACKSON, Tenn. (BP) -- Ernest Easley recently looked through a file folder from 1984 where he came across an old Texas Baptist leadership magazine.

  "On every page there was something about evangelism, outreach, training, rallies," said Easley, professor of evangelism at Union University. "I don't read much emphasis anymore on evangelism," he said, voicing concern that Southern Baptists aren't fanning the flame of evangelism like they once did." Read More

• Floyd, NBCUSA talk racial unity in NY Times

  by Diana Chandler, posted Monday, January 25, 2016 (8 years ago)

  

  File photo from Cross Church

  NASHVILLE (BP) -- Southern Baptist Convention President Ronnie Floyd and National Baptist Convention President Jerry Young are featured in a Jan. 24th New York Times article on their continued efforts to bring racial healing in the U.S. through the Gospel of Christ.

  Still working on goals the two Baptist leaders established in November 2015 at "A National Conversation on Race in America" in Jackson, Miss., the men sat down with New York Times writer Laurie Goodstein to discuss their hearts' desire to heal wounds that for some run as deep as the SBC's 1845 founding to uphold the rights of slaveholders. Read More

• FIRST-PERSON: Don't let the devil keep you from the Bible

  by R.T. Kendall, posted Monday, January 25, 2016 (8 years ago)

  R.T. Kendall, former senior minister of Westminster Chapel in London, warns, "... the devil will do anything to keep people from reading their Bibles." The fact that "the devil does not want you to do this should galvanize every true Christian to fall on their knees -- to pray more and read the Bible more," Kendall writes. Read More