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Tuesday, February 23, 2016

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  • Cooperative Program legacy is Frank Page's resolve
    by Art Toalston, posted Tuesday, February 23, 2016 (8 years ago)

    Photo by Morris Abernathy
    NASHVILLE (BP) -- "There will be a day when I'm gone and there will be a day when you are gone," Frank S. Page said.

    "What kind of legacy will we leave behind," Page asked, "as the Executive Committee, as students, as professors, as preachers, as lay men and women?"

    Page reviewed the legacy Southern Baptists are building through the Cooperative Program

    when he addressed the opening session of the Feb. 22-23 Executive Committee meeting in ... Read More

  • SBTS panel spotlights racial reconciliation
    by Robert Chapman, posted Tuesday, February 23, 2016 (8 years ago)

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    LOUISVILLE, Ky. (BP) -- Southern Baptists must consider racial reconciliation as important as abortion and same-sex marriage, said leaders and pastors at Southern Baptist Theological Seminary during a Feb. 17 forum.

    "Southern Baptists got [race issues] so wrong for so long that we have to deal honestly with it, because we do not have credibility," said Matthew J. Hall, vice president for academic administration and assistant professor of church history. The forum, which was held at the

    seminary's campus in Louisville, Ky., followed the SBC's Racial Reconciliation Sunday, ... Read More

  • 'Hope in God,' Floyd tells Southern Baptists
    by Diana Chandler, posted Tuesday, February 23, 2016 (8 years ago)

    Photo by Morris Abernathy
    NASHVILLE (BP) -- Southern Baptists must recognize God as our strength and lead evangelicals into the future with His Light and the truth of His Word, Ronnie Floyd said at the Southern Baptist Convention Executive Committee's Feb. 22–23 meeting in Nashville.

    "Leaders of the Southern Baptist Convention, ... in this dark hour in America, when we wrestle within ourselves to not become downcast or discouraged with all that is happening in our nation," Floyd said, "we must respond in obedience to what the Lord is telling us in Psalm 43. We need the power and the guidance of the Holy Spirit so we will be anchored to the Truth of God and to the Lord Jesus Himself alone." Read More

  • FIRST-PERSON: Racing through life blindfolded!
    by Jimmy Draper, posted Tuesday, February 23, 2016 (8 years ago)

    Jimmy Draper ponders how NASCAR drivers -- and Christians -- would do if they were blindfolded. Christians "should never pull into the fast lane of life without first reading our Road Map -- the Bible," Draper, president emeritus of LifeWay Christian Resources, writes. Read More

  • In Flint, Ky. volunteers delivering water, hope
    by Mark Kelly, posted Tuesday, February 23, 2016 (8 years ago)

    Photo by John Swain/NAMB
    FLINT, Michigan (BP) -- Southern Baptists are bringing clean water and a ray of hope to residents of Flint, Mich., as that city scrambles to solve its potable water crisis.

    Trained disaster relief volunteers from the Kentucky Baptist Convention are working in Flint seven days a week at the invitation of Michigan emergency management officials. Five three-member teams are going door to door, delivering water filters, bottled water and water test kits. They also are passing along information related to the water crisis and listening as residents tell their stories about being caught up in the dilemma. Read More

  • Moore: Pope's reasoning wrong on death penalty ban

    by Tom Strode, posted Tuesday, February 23, 2016 (8 years ago)

    WASHINGTON (BP) -- Pope Francis is wrong in asserting the death penalty always violates the Bible's command not to murder, Southern Baptist ethicist Russell Moore says.

    In a Feb. 21 blog post, Moore responded to the pope's call the same day for a worldwide ban on capital punishment. The president of the Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission (ERLC) took issue with the reasoning used by the leader of the Roman Catholic Church in his abolitionist appeal. Read More