Friday, August 28, 2015

• KATRINA 2005-15: Disaster training proved its worth

  by Tobin Perry, posted Friday, August 28, 2015 (9 years ago)

  GULFPORT, Miss. (BP) -- Dionne Williams opened the large French doors that led into his Gulf Coast home and couldn't believe what five and a half feet of Hurricane Katrina's storm surge had done.

  Clothes were ruined. Books destroyed. Tools unusable. Photos, memorabilia, priceless family mementos gone forever. Read More

• Iorg: Golden Gate embarking on historic year

  by Kathie Chute, posted Friday, August 28, 2015 (9 years ago)

  

  GGBTS photo

  MILL VALLEY, Calif. (BP) -- An academic year "like no other in the history of American seminaries" awaits faculty, staff and students of Golden Gate Baptist Theological Seminary, President Jeff Iorg said in a convocation address Aug. 27.

  "We are currently moving the primary campus of one of the 10 largest seminaries in the United States 400 miles to Southern California, while at the same time building a secondary campus in the Bay Area -- all while remaining fully operational," Iorg said in an address titled "A Great Adventure." Read More

• Should we watch murders on social media?

  by Russell Moore, posted Friday, August 28, 2015 (9 years ago)

  

  Screen grab from WDBJ, Franklin County, Va.

  NASHVILLE (BP) -- I watched a video that I'm ashamed to say I viewed.

  No, it wasn't pornography -- at least not the kind of pornography we typically think of. The video was the live shooting of two television journalists as they were reporting in Virginia. At the time, I saw the post on Twitter, which noted "unexplained shooting noises."

  When I watched the clip, I assumed there was gunshots around them and that the journalist and her interviewee had ducked for cover. It wasn't until later that I learned that what I had seen was a cold-blooded murder streaming across my Twitter feed. Read More

• KATRINA 2005-15: Winds of change for disaster relief

  by Tobin Perry, posted Friday, August 28, 2015 (9 years ago)

  

  File photo by John Swain/NAMB

  GULFPORT, Miss. (BP) -- "We've shared the Gospel with so many people in this community, I don't know if there is anyone else we can share with," Randy Corn thought to himself six months after Hurricane Katrina when he arrived in Gulfport, Miss., one of the many Gulf Coast cities devastated by the historic hurricane 10 years ago.

  "I don't know if there's anyone else who hasn't heard the Gospel," Corn thought in beginning a week of Southern Baptist Disaster Relief construction projects through his church, Biltmore Baptist in Arden, N.C., which had served in the area multiple times and seen many give their lives to Christ through SBDR ministry. Read More

• 'Post-worship war' counsel offered by Page & Gray

  by By David Roach, posted Friday, August 28, 2015 (9 years ago)

  

  NASHVILLE (BP) -- Breaking the paradigm of age-segregated services, navigating a "post-worship war culture" and fostering multicultural praise gatherings are among the topics addressed in a book by Frank S. Page and Lavon Gray on worship challenges for 21st-century churches.

  Worship "has become a big claim in the twenty-first century church; but, based on the reality of people's lives, the worship that we claim to be experiencing is not truly affecting the quality of our lives, our families, and our witness," Page, president of ... Read More

• KATRINA 2005-15: The story is still being written

  by Joe McKeever, posted Friday, August 28, 2015 (9 years ago)

  NEW ORLEANS (BP) -- From the divine perspective, 10 years is a blip, one nanosecond in a timeless eternity. For us earthlings, it's one-eighth of a life expectancy.

  Even so, it's a convenient time to pull over and take inventory. Since Aug. 29, 2005, when Hurricane Katrina changed New Orleans forever, everyone wants to know: "What is God doing in this city? How are things now?" Read More

• 42 IMB missionaries appointed; Platt addresses trustees

  by Laura Fielding, posted Friday, August 28, 2015 (9 years ago)

  

  Photo by Paul W. Lee

  FREDERICKSBURG, Va. (BP) -- Growing up in Brazil, Thiago Montanher de Queiroz came to know Christ at 10 years old and early on felt God calling’s to follow Him into international missions.

  As an adult while attending a local seminary, Montanher had a professor of missions and church planting -- an International Mission Board missionary -- who helped confirm and encourage his calling.

  “[The missionary’s] love for the nations was contagious, and I have never seen anyone so passionate about the Gospel,” Montanher said. Read More

• Las protestas en Planned Parenthood atraen a los bautistas del sur

  Por David Roach, posted Friday, August 28, 2015 (9 years ago)

  

  Foto por Scott Colter

  NASHVILLE (BP) -- Había bautistas del sur entre el estimado de 50.000 a 75.000 activistas pro-vida que protestaron en las clínicas en EE.UU. el 22 de agosto llamando al desfinanciamiento del proveedor de abortos más grande de la nación.

  Manifestantes en más de 350 ciudades a lo largo y ancho de 47 estados, de acuerdo a estadísticas reportadas por LifeNews.com, se unieron en lo que el Washington Post llamó "el más grande rally en contra" de Planned Parenthood. Read More

• Líderes de IMB anuncian plan para balancear presupuesto

  Por el personal de IMB , posted Friday, August 28, 2015 (9 years ago)

  

  RICHMOND, Virginia (BP) -- Los líderes de la Junta de Misiones Internacionales han delineado un plan para tratar los déficits en los ingresos de IMB y un completo restablecimiento de la organización para poder avanzar hacia el futuro con "una visión innovadora, una mayordomía sabia y un alto grado de responsabilidad."

  El plan fue presentado por el personal directivo de IMB, incluyendo al presidente David Platt, durante una reunión abierta el 27 de agosto que incluyó misioneros y personal, quienes colectivamente asistieron fuera en persona o a través de ... Read More

• KATRINA 2005-15: 'Prueba de nuestra fe'

  Por Fred Luter, posted Friday, August 28, 2015 (9 years ago)

  

  NEW ORLEANS (BP) -- Hace 10 años nuestras vidas fueron dramáticamente cambiadas por el huracán Katrina. No solamente impactó nuestra ciudad físicamente, sino que nos impactó espiritual y emocionalmente. Fue un tiempo que nunca olvidaremos.

  Fue una prueba de nuestra fe. Fue una prueba de nuestra creencia. También fue una prueba de nuestra disponibilidad para regresar y reconstruir. Read More

• Un estudio se enfoca en el suicidio

  Por Lisa Canon Green, posted Friday, August 28, 2015 (9 years ago)

  NASHVILLE (BP) -- La mayoría de los estadounidenses cree estar presenciando en su país una epidemia de personas que se quitan la vida, según muestra un estudio de LifeWay Research.

  Pero la mayoría de los estadounidenses no ven el suicidio como una opción egoísta, y no creen que éste envíe a la persona al infierno, según los hallazgos del estudio mencionado. Read More

• EDITORIAL: Cuatro Razones Para Leer Y Estudiar La Biblia

  Por Gerardo A. Alfaro, posted Friday, August 28, 2015 (9 years ago)

  FORT WORTH, Texas (BP) -- Cuatro razones para leer y estudiar la Biblia:

  1. Las Escrituras te puede proporcionar Sabiduría

  En un mundo lleno de conocimiento y habilidades, pero también lleno de niños insensatos (tontos), que no saben tomar buenas y correctas decisiones.

  Pero no se trata de solo saberlo, se trata de "persistir" en lo que nos hemos persuadido. Read More