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Thursday, April 13, 2006

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  • Bob Reccord resigns as NAMB president
    by Staff, posted Thursday, April 13, 2006 (18 years ago)

    ALPHARETTA, Ga. (BP)--Bob Reccord resigned this morning (April 17) as president of the Southern Baptist Convention’s North American Mission Board. Read More

  • Orthodox scholars: gospel of Judas not a Christian document
    by Michael Foust, posted Thursday, April 13, 2006 (18 years ago)

    "[I]t reminds us that the early church was built on Scripture, and that heretics like the Gnostics were a real threat to the Gospel ... and that present-day heretics will continue to use such a document to attack the very same inerrant Scriptures that God has given."
    Michael D. McMullen

    Midwestern Seminary

    NASHVILLE, Tenn. (BP)--The gospel of Judas is helpful in understanding early church heresy but should be viewed as false writings and not comparable to the biblical Gospels, conservative scholars say.

    A group of scholars and translators announced in early April the document’s discovery, disclosing the find just before a special about the manuscript aired on the National Geographic Channel. National Geographic billed it as a "lost gospel."

    Christians long have known about the gospel of Judas and considered it heretical -- even though they didn't have an entire copy. Much of what previously was known came from an early church father, Irenaeus -- a hero of church history who was bishop of Lyons and lived in the second century -- who wrote a work titled "Against Heresies," in which he called the gospel of Judas "fictitious history." Read More

  • Univ.'s homosexuality stance puts pharmacy school at risk
    by David Winfrey, posted Thursday, April 13, 2006 (18 years ago)

    WILLIAMSBURG, Ky. (BP)--The University of the Cumberlands expelled a homosexual student April 6, sparking reactions on and off campus, including some state legislators who called for the Baptist-affiliated university to forfeit public funds for a pharmacy school. Read More

  • Beeping Easter egg hunt ready for visually impaired kids
    by Grace Thornton, posted Thursday, April 13, 2006 (18 years ago)

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    Sgt. Errol Culpepper (left) and Officer Derrick Hood of the Birmingham Police Department prep beeping Easter eggs for visually impaired kids at North Shelby Baptist Church. Photo by Grace Thornton
    BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (BP)--David Hyche has spent more than two months helping people hunt for answers to the Alabama church fires.

    Hyche supervised the investigations as resident agent in charge for Birmingham's Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives office. As the fire cases were wrapping up, he and his church, with help from his crime-solving colleagues, began planning a different sort of hunt -- an Easter egg hunt for visually impaired children. Read More

  • Associational Crossover serves as model for ‘Everyone Can’
    by Erin Roach, posted Thursday, April 13, 2006 (18 years ago)

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    More than 800 people from the Stone Baptist Association packed a Cookeville, Tenn., church April 9 to celebrate decisions made during “Crossover Cookeville,” an evangelistic event that SBC President Bobby Welch considers a momentum builder in the quest to baptize 1 million people. Photo by Connie Davis Bushey/Baptist and Reflector
    COOKEVILLE, Tenn. (BP)--More than 700 volunteers from a single Baptist association knocked on nearly 7,000 doors to share the Gospel in a Tennessee community April 8, and Bobby Welch believes it was a key event in the grander scheme of accomplishing the goal set forth in the “‘Everyone Can’ Kingdom Challenge!” for evangelism.

    “Crossover Cookeville” was modeled after the evangelism event that has for years preceded the Southern Baptist Convention’s annual meeting, but Welch, president of the convention, said it went a step further by tying into the associational baptism rallies he challenged each Baptist association to conduct. Read More

  • Revival at a coffeehouse still fuels their ministry
    by Ken Walker, posted Thursday, April 13, 2006 (18 years ago)

    WESTLAKE, La. (BP)--The revival that drew Larry Thompson to Christ as a 17-year-old continues to influence his ministry long after he left South Carolina for pastorates in four other states. Read More

  • Multitude of laypeople testify to revival’s lasting impact
    by Ken Walker, posted Thursday, April 13, 2006 (18 years ago)

    EASLEY, S.C. (BP)--For layman Terry Ballenger, a gratifying result of the revival that broke out in Easley, S.C., in the early 1970s is hearing the preaching of those who were called into the ministry and how their spiritual gifts have developed over the years. Read More

  • FIRST-PERSON: Resurrection: history or hoax?
    by Kevin Shrum, posted Thursday, April 13, 2006 (18 years ago)

    NASHVILLE, Tenn. (BP)--Let’s begin with some sarcasm. If Dan Brown (author of the "The Da Vinci Code") hadn’t appeared, we poor Christians never would have known the "real story" concerning the life, death and supposed resurrection of Jesus Christ. Here’s the scoop according to Brown and like-minded authors (such as Bart Ehrman, John Dominic Crossan and Elaine Pagels): The real story of Jesus has been cloaked by time, inaccurate history, church conspiracies and secret societies. Read More

  • FIRST-PERSON: The roses will bloom again
    by Christian George, posted Thursday, April 13, 2006 (18 years ago)

    BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (BP)--The venerable R.G. Lee preached, “The roses will bloom again,” from the pulpit of First Baptist Church in New Orleans, during the early 1920s. Read More

  • FIRST-PERSON: Foolishness during the Easter season
    by David Nelson, posted Thursday, April 13, 2006 (18 years ago)

    WAKE FOREST, N.C. (BP)--My mother taught me that if what I had to say was foolish, then I ought to keep my mouth shut. At the time, I didn't realize that she was teaching me the simple wisdom of Proverbs, that foolishness is to be avoided and wisdom is to be embraced. Read More