Wednesday, March 27, 2019

• Ethnic churches add English for 2nd & 3rd generations

  by Erin Roach, posted Wednesday, March 27, 2019 (5 years ago)

  

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  VANCOUVER, Wash. (BP) -- Ethnic churches nationwide have realized they need to utilize English-language worship services to reach their second and third generations.

  For some, that has meant starting independent English-speaking churches or, for others, welcoming English speakers as a subgroup of the larger congregation. Read More

• Brownback: Christian media key to religious freedom

  by Tom Strode, posted Wednesday, March 27, 2019 (5 years ago)

  

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  ANAHEIM, Calif. (BP) -- Christian communicators play a key role in combatting persecution in foreign countries and defending religious freedom in the United States, speakers said in a public policy session Tuesday (March 26) during the National Religious Broadcasters' International Christian Media Convention, Proclaim 19.

  Sam Brownback, U.S. ambassador at large for international religious freedom, said a movement fueled by NRB members is required. Read More

• Greear: Ordinary people called to spread the Gospel

  by Andrew J.W. Smith, posted Wednesday, March 27, 2019 (5 years ago)

  

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  LOUISVILLE, Ky. (BP) -- The Gospel needs to spread throughout the world by ordinary people, just like it did in the book of Acts, J.D. Greear said during Southern Baptist Theological Seminary's chapel yesterday (March 26).

  Greear, president of the Southern Baptist Convention, used the example of Stephen in Acts 6-7 to bring this point home, describing the blueprint for the spread of Christianity as more like Stephen's dramatic sermon before the Sanhedrin than the Sermon on the Mount. Read More

• 2 Utah churches join hands for metro area of 100,000

  by Karen L. Willoughby, posted Wednesday, March 27, 2019 (5 years ago)

  

  ST. GEORGE, Utah (BP) -- Outnumbered and under-membered in their Utah metro area, two Southern Baptist churches are working together to bring living water to more than 100,000 people who live near the parched and starkly beautiful Utah-Arizona-Nevada state lines.

  First Southern Baptist Church and Desert Ridge Baptist Church in metro St. George in southwestern Utah have joined forces for several initiatives while supporting each other in church-distinct ministries. Read More

• U.S. expands ban on overseas abortion funding

  by Diana Chandler, posted Wednesday, March 27, 2019 (5 years ago)

  

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  WASHINGTON (BP) -- The U.S. will strengthen and expand a policy withholding federal funds from overseas groups that offer or promote abortions, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said yesterday (March 26).

  Called the Mexico City Policy, it was crafted during the Reagan administration and renewed under President Donald Trump requiring nongovernmental overseas aid and health organizations to abandon abortion procedures and counseling in order to receive U.S. funds designated for family planning. Read More

• FIRST-PERSON: Looking for heaven on earth

  by Lynn Pryor, posted Wednesday, March 27, 2019 (5 years ago)

  Creating a utopia on earth won't succeed, Lynn Pryor writes, "as long as imperfect people are allowed to start them or live in them." Christians can, however, elevate the culture around them by "living for Christ in the power of His Spirit." Read More