Monday, March 16, 2015

• 80,000-plus Bibles shipped to Cuba for churches

  by Barbara Denman/Florida Baptist convention , posted Monday, March 16, 2015 (9 years ago)

  

  Photo by Wilson Hunter/IMB

  MIAMI (BP) -- Three 40-foot containers packed with 83,723 Spanish-speaking Bibles to be distributed among Baptist churches in both Western and Eastern Cuba are expected to arrive in Havana March 25.

  The shipment, slated to leave South Florida during the week of March 15, is the third Southern Baptists have sent to the island nation since 1999. This latest effort brings the total number of Bibles sent to nearly half a million, said Kurt Urbanek, IMB strategy leader for Cuba since 1997. Read More

• Lesbian speaker at Bapt. college prompts protest

  by David Roach, posted Monday, March 16, 2015 (9 years ago)

  NASHVILLE (BP) -- A historically black college that used to have ties with the Southern Baptist Convention has drawn criticism for inviting three gay marriage proponents to address students.

  Forrest Harris, president of American Baptist College in Nashville, specifically defended his decision to invite a lesbian bishop to speak by denouncing those who use "idolatry of the Bible" to discriminate against homosexuals. Harris defined idolatry of the Bible as "when people say [the Bible] is synonymous with God and the truth." He added, "We can't be guided and dictated by a first century worldview," the Tennessean reported. Read More

• Evolutionists kill academic freedom bills

  by Dick Peterson, posted Monday, March 16, 2015 (9 years ago)

  ASHEVILLE, N.C. (BP) -- Lawmakers in four states tried this year to introduce academic freedom bills to protect teachers for questioning theories like Darwinism, shielding them from discipline, demotion or termination. But opponents killed the bills before they could get a fair hearing, raising concerns among educators who might not fully embrace the theory of evolution.

  "There are a number of incidents around the country where teachers have been threatened or fired," said Casey Luskin, research coordinator for the Discovery Institute's Center for Science & Culture. "They simply cited some of the problems with Darwinism." Read More

• Floyd names Committee on Committees

  by Staff, posted Monday, March 16, 2015 (9 years ago)

  COLUMBUS, Ohio (BP) -- Appointments to the Southern Baptist Convention's Committee on Committees have been announced by SBC President Ronnie Floyd, pastor of Cross Church, in Springdale, Ark. Floyd announced the appointments in accordance with SBC Bylaw 19, which calls for providing notice to Southern Baptists of the appointees no later than 45 days in advance of each year's Convention.

  The Committee on Committees will assemble in Columbus just prior to the SBC's June 16-17 annual meeting to nominate members of the Committee on Nominations who, in turn, nominate trustees for the boards of SBC entities. SBC Bylaw 19 also provides that the Committee on Committees "shall nominate all special committees authorized during the sessions of the Convention not otherwise provided for." Read More

• FIRST-PERSON: All we need

  by David Jeremiah, posted Monday, March 16, 2015 (9 years ago)

  California pastor David Jeremiah writes that Christ alone is "the simple plan of salvation" in a world "filled with religions that want to … add works, to add rules, to add fear." Read More

• BP Ledger, March 16, 2015

  by Staff, posted Monday, March 16, 2015 (9 years ago)

  Today's BP Ledger contains items from:

  Home School Legal Defense Association

  Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary

  Oklahoma Baptist University

  Christian Newswire (two items)

  Movieguide.org

  University of Mobile Read More