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Friday, May 29, 2009

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  • Golfer Kenny Perry sees beyond Masters loss
    by Art Stricklin, posted Friday, May 29, 2009 (15 years ago)

    FORT WORTH, Texas (BP)--Golfer Kenny Perry has a message for fans or media who think he is still crushed or depressed by his recent Masters playoff loss: His faith in Jesus Christ is enough to take care of any professional distress.

          "I wasn't disappointed, that's what people don't understand," Perry said after the first round of the Crowne Plaza Invitational at Colonial Thursday, where he is a two-time champion of the PGA Tour event.

          "I have been so blessed, I could never be disappointed or upset with my life."

          Perry, 48, capped the golf season of his life in 2008 with three PGA Tour victories and a spot on United States' victorious Ryder Cup team.

          In 2009 it even got better with a victory at the 2009 PGA Tour event in Phoenix and his strong showing at the Masters tournament.

          Playing in the major championship closest to his hometown of Franklin, Ky., Perry played steadily, if not brilliantly, in moving to the top of the leader board at Augusta National Golf Club.

          He was in the final group on the final day. In the crowd: PGA Tour chaplain Larry Moody, who had spoken to Perry about the international platform to give glory to God with a victory.

          But an 18th hole missed putt left Perry in a playoff with Angel Cabrera and Chad Campbell. A poor shot on the second playoff hole cost Perry his chance; Cabrera captured the victory, becoming the oldest champion in Masters history.

          Even so, it didn't leave Perry with a crushed spirit or crushed faith.

          "Jesus is No. 1 in my life. I hope that comes through in everything I do," he said.

    Perry already had spurned the conventional Tour wisdom by citing his faith ... Read More

  • Montana church undaunted by fire
    by Karen L. Willoughby, posted Friday, May 29, 2009 (15 years ago)

    Photo by Larry Beckner/Great Falls Tribune
    GREAT FALLS, Mont. (BP)--The smoke alarms worked just after midnight on Sunday, May 24, enabling the three people staying in Set Free Ministries' oversized building in downtown Great Falls, Mont., to flee to safety.

          The uninsured, historic building burned to its outside brick walls during the Memorial Day weekend ... Read More

  • NH 'gay marriage' bill heads back to legis.
    by Michael Foust, posted Friday, May 29, 2009 (15 years ago)

    CONCORD, N.H. (BP)--An attempt to make New Hampshire the sixth state to legalize "gay marriage" may have hit a snag last week, but supporters aren't giving up and a legislative committee agreed Friday in a controversial meeting to send a compromise bill back to both chambers. Read More

  • FIRST PERSON: "This One Thing I Do" (Philippians 3:12-14)
    by Morris H. Chapman, posted Friday, May 29, 2009 (15 years ago)

    NASHVILLE, Tenn. (BP)--On Monday, April 27, I received an email and was surprised by the attachment entitled, the Great Commission Resurgence Declaration. As I began reading through the ten articles of the Declaration, I rejoiced in the strong affirmations of our Convention's biblical convictions. Read More

  • 25,000 prep for NAMB summer missions
    by Mickey Noah, posted Friday, May 29, 2009 (15 years ago)

    ALPHARETTA, Ga. (BP)--An army of 25,000 student and adult volunteers will mobilize across the United States, Canada and Puerto Rico in June, when the North American Mission Board's World Changers, PowerPlant and Families on Mission ministries launch for the summer.

    Introduced in 1991 and now in its 19th year, World Changers is a pre-packaged mission experience sponsored and managed by NAMB, enabling students to donate a week (Saturday to Saturday) of their summer to help rehabilitate housin... Read More

  • Day of Prayer: Remote villagers waited for legend's 'precious' gift
    by Don Graham, posted Friday, May 29, 2009 (15 years ago)

    EDITOR'S NOTE: Sharing the Gospel with peoples living in hard-to-reach places is the focus of the 2009 Day of Prayer and Fasting for World Evangelization, which Southern Baptists will observe May 31.

    PACIFIC RIM (BP)--No one knows when the legend began. But generations of Sayang* have waited for its promise to be fulfilled.

    For more than five centuries they have eked out their existence on a remote South Pacific island -- virtually cut off from the outside world. Here, the Sayang ... Read More

  • Day of Prayer and Fasting for World Evangelization -- May 31
    by Staff, posted Friday, May 29, 2009 (15 years ago)

    PACIFIC RIM (BP)--The Sayang* are just one example of the many people groups around the world who live in places or cultures where it is especially difficult to share the Gospel -- and often dangerous for those who believe.

    Geographic isolation, physical hardship, threats of violence and lack of freedom and resources are among the foremost barriers separating the lost from the opportunity to know Jesus.

    That's why Southern Baptists are coming together to show their love for lost people... Read More

  • Obama elige a Sotomayor como su primer nombramiento a la Suprema Corte
    Por Michael Foust, posted Friday, May 29, 2009 (15 years ago)

    WASHINGTON (BP)--El martes el Presidente Obama nominó a Sonia Sotomayor a la Suprema Corte, enviando así al Senado el nombre de alguien con huellas poco profundas en cuanto a los asuntos sociales y quien se convertiría en la primera hispana en la corte superior.

          Sotomayor, de 54 años, es la primera nominación a la Suprema Corte y reemplazaría al Juez David Souter, en vías a la jubilación. Ella ha servido en la Corte de Apelaciones del segundo circuito de Nueva York desde 1998, rama a la que fuera nominada por el Presidente Clinton. De 1992 a 1998 sirvió como juez de la corte de tribunales, un puesto que tomó luego de haber sido nominada por el Presidente George H. W. Bush por recomendación del ex senador demócrata Daniel Patrick Moynihan, debido a un arreglo entre los dos partidos.

          Hija de padres portorriqueños, Sotomayor -- en caso de que llegue a formar parte del bloque liberal de la corte -- no cambiaría la conformación ideológica porque Souter también era un miembro del ala liberal.

          Los conservadores han criticado las declaraciones controversiales que ha hecho en el pasado, incluyendo haber dicho a un grupo de estudiantes universitarios en el 2005 que la "corte de apelaciones es donde se hacen las políticas." Read More

  • Cuatro miembros de una familia se gradúan juntos
    Por Tammi Reed Ledbetter, posted Friday, May 29, 2009 (15 years ago)

    KANSAS CITY, Mo. (BP)--Cuando Audrey Johnston recorrió el escenario para aceptar su maestría en divinidades en el Midwestern Baptist Theological Seminary (Seminario Teológico Bautista Midwestern), su suegra siguió cada uno de sus pasos, lista para recibir su propio título. Read More

  • EDITORIAL: Dime con quién andas…
    Por Óscar J. Fernández, posted Friday, May 29, 2009 (15 years ago)

    NASHVILLE, Tenn. (BP)--El salmo número uno fue el primer Salmo que aprendí de memoria cuando era un Embajador del Rey, hace muchos años. El primer versículo siempre cautivó mi atención y durante los años que han transcurrido, en muchas y diversas ocasiones me ha servido para comprender la forma de actuar de algunas personas con las que he tenido que relacionarme. Acostumbro a parafrasearlo de esta manera: "Será muy feliz todo aquel que no se corrompa ni haga lo malo". Read More