Friday, April 10, 2015

• Ohio's rich Southern Baptist history

  by David Roach, posted Friday, April 10, 2015 (9 years ago)

  

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  COLUMBUS, Ohio (BP) -- "The ripest field for Southern Baptist work in the U.S.A."

  That's how Ray Roberts, who would become the first executive secretary of the State Convention of Baptists in Ohio, described the Buckeye state in 1952. Over the next six decades, Roberts and other Ohio Southern Baptists proved the ripeness of their field by planting hundreds of churches, establishing three other Baptist state conventions in pioneer areas, building a network of Baptist ministries and leading untold thousands to faith in Christ. Read More

• 'Radical righteousness' needed for S.C. shooting

  by Diana Chandler, posted Friday, April 10, 2015 (9 years ago)

  CHARLESTON, S.C. (BP) -- Christians should respond with godly grace and wisdom to the shooting death of unarmed black citizen Walter Scott at the hands of white police officer Michael Slager, an urban ministry leader and a criminal justice professor told Baptist Press in the days after the officer was charged with murder. Read More

• Gospel, politics to draw focus of ERLC conf.

  by Staff, posted Friday, April 10, 2015 (9 years ago)

  

  NASHVILLE (BP) -- Engaging politics from a Gospel perspective will be the focus of the second national conference sponsored by the Southern Baptist Convention's ethics entity.

  The Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission (ERLC) will present "The Gospel and Politics" as a one-day event Aug. 5 in Nashville. The conference, scheduled for the downtown Music City Center, is designed to equip pastors, other church leaders and church members in preparation for the 2016 presidential election. Read More

• They became Cooperative Program advocates

  by Karen L. Willoughby, posted Friday, April 10, 2015 (9 years ago)

  KENOSHA, Wis. (BP) -- Ohio native Lenard Tavernelli didn't know a thing about Southern Baptists.

  He was reared in the General Association of Regular Baptist Churches, part of a conservative split in 1932 from the former Northern Baptist Convention (now the American Baptist Churches USA). Read More

• Once a fishing guide, now a CP-committed pastor

  by Karen L. Willoughby, posted Friday, April 10, 2015 (9 years ago)

  

  Photo courtesy of Pilot Oak Baptist Church

  WATER VALLEY, Ky. (BP) -- Jimmy Brown trusts the Lord whenever he goes fishing, whether the fishing hole is filled with lake water or the silt of an undredged life.

  "I had never realized the similarities between fishing, soul-winning and pastoring," said Brown, a former professional fishing guide on Kentucky Lake who has been pastor of Pilot Oak Baptist Church in western Kentucky since 2007. Read More

• UMobile grad is NFL full-time female official

  by Matthew Hicks, posted Friday, April 10, 2015 (9 years ago)

  

  MOBILE, Ala. (BP) -- The NFL's first full-time female game official, Sarah Thomas, is a former University of Mobile athlete.

  Thomas, who played basketball at UMobile from 1992-95, will be a line judge for the 2015 season. Based on performance, she will have the opportunity to move into other roles, including the highest position of referee.

  The NFL made the formal announcement April 8, capping days of speculation by sports media outlets. Read More

• Researchers develop pacemaker for unborn babies

  by Courtney Crandell/WORLD News Service , posted Friday, April 10, 2015 (9 years ago)

  ASHEVILLE, N.C. (BP) -- A team of researchers has developed the first pacemaker small enough to implant in an unborn baby's heart, potentially offering an effective treatment for congenital heart blocks. Read More

• FIRST-PERSON: People, churches, stewardship & CP

  by John Yeats, posted Friday, April 10, 2015 (9 years ago)

  In stewardship, Missouri Baptist executive director John Yeats writes, "we are individually and collectively engaged in something much greater than ourselves." Southern Baptists' Cooperative Program "gives our churches the methodology to advance the Kingdom of our God for generations and for people who live here and over there," Yeats writes. Read More

• CALL TO PRAYER: The certainty of Christ

  by Lance Taylor, posted Friday, April 10, 2015 (9 years ago)

  "The uncertainty of life brings stress, but the certainty of Christ brings peace," writes Lance Taylor, executive pastor of Long Hollow Baptist Church, in this week's Call to Prayer. "I don't know about you, but I can sure live between these two realities." Read More

• EDITORIAL: El Verdadero Salvador

  by Michael A. Gonzales, posted Friday, April 10, 2015 (9 years ago)

  Cuando examinamos bien la Biblia, sólo hay un mensaje que se proclama vez tras vez, y ese mensaje es que Cristo es el Salvador del mundo. Desde Génesis hasta Apocalipsis todo empieza y culmina con Jesucristo. ... Read More

• Viaje a Cuba confirma el llamado del presidente de la CBS a orar

  Por María Elena Baseler, posted Friday, April 10, 2015 (9 years ago)

  

  BAYAMO, Cuba (BP) -- El presidente de la Convención Bautista del Sur, Ronnie Floyd cree que el arrollador movimiento de plantación de iglesias en Cuba podría suceder en EE.UU. si los bautistas del sur y otros creyentes estadounidenses se comprometieran a "una oración extraordinaria por el próximo Gran Despertar."

  "Nunca ha habido un gran movimiento de Dios…que no fuera precedido por una oración extraordinaria del pueblo de Dios. Y necesitamos un despertar espiritual poderoso en nuestra nación," dijo Floyd, quien el año pasado comenzó un continuo llamado a los bautistas del sur por un despertar espiritual que pudiera tener un impacto global. Read More

• EN PRIMERA PERSONA: Miren lo que Dios está haciendo en Cuba

  Por Ronnie Floyd, posted Friday, April 10, 2015 (9 years ago)

  

  SPRINGDALE, Ark. (BP) -- Hace menos de dos semanas pasé tres días completos en Cuba. Fueron unos pocos días intensos en los que asistí a un congreso de misiones, a reuniones con líderes, y di el mensaje final de esta importante reunión.

  Durante un año, Dios me puso en el corazón un profundo deseo de ir a Cuba. Había oído de unas pocas personas sobre la gran obra de Dios que seguía adelante allá. Y después de oír a algunos de los líderes cubanos en la reunión anual de la Convención Bautista del Sur 2014, supe que quería ir ahí pronto. Read More

• 'Oren por el matrimonio' insta la ERLC debido a la decisión de la Corte Suprema

  Por Tom Strode, posted Friday, April 10, 2015 (9 years ago)

  WASHINGTON (BP) -- La Comisión de Libertad Religiosa y Ética (ERLC por sus siglas en inglés) está invitando a todos los cristianos a orar en relación a lo que pudiera ser una decisión histórica de la Corte Suprema de EE.UU. sobre el matrimonio.

  La ERLC inició su iniciativa Oren por el Matrimonio el martes (7 de abril), tres semanas antes de los argumentos orales de la corte el 28 de abril que involucran el matrimonio del mismo sexo. Los jueces esperan emitir un veredicto para finales de junio o principios de julio. Read More

• Alcance global: LifeWay se abre camino en el extranjero

  Por Bob Smietana, posted Friday, April 10, 2015 (9 years ago)

  

  NASHVILLE (BP) -- “LifeWay es el mayor proveedor de contenido cristiano en el mundo,” dijo Craig Featherstone. “Sin embargo, la mayoría de nuestros productos se quedan en los Estados Unidos.”

  Como director de Recursos Globales LifeWay, esto es algo que Featherstone quiere cambiar. Read More

• EDITORIAL: El Verdadero Salvador

  Por Michael A. Gonzales, posted Friday, April 10, 2015 (9 years ago)

  GRAPEVINE, Texas (BP) -- Cuando examinamos bien la Biblia, sólo hay un mensaje que se proclama vez tras vez, y ese mensaje es que Cristo es el Salvador del mundo. Desde Génesis hasta Apocalipsis todo empieza y culmina con Jesucristo.

  "Y pondré enemistad entre ti y la mujer, y entre tu simiente y la simiente tuya; ésta te herirá en la cabeza, y tú le herirás en el calcañar." Génesis 3:15 Read More