Thursday, May 21, 2015

• 'Royal' treatment helps family share true King

  by Kate Gregory, posted Thursday, May 21, 2015 (9 years ago)

  

  Photo by Thomas Graham/IMB

  AMAZON REGION (BP) -- Most girls dream of becoming royalty, but few have the opportunity to realize that dream. For Naomi and Hannah Jansen,* teenage daughters of Southern Baptist missionaries among an unreached tribe in South America, it wasn't quite like the fairy tale of wearing bedazzled ball gowns and living in spacious castles.

  Their skin and hair, not their dresses, were what was decorated when they were inducted by the tribe to be ceremonial queens of the village, tribal peacemakers who hold positions of honor and reflect a high level of respect given to their parents. Read More

• Boy Scouts should allow gay leaders, BSA pres. says

  by David Roach, posted Thursday, May 21, 2015 (9 years ago)

  

  ATLANTA (BP) -- The Boy Scouts of America should end its ban on gay adult leaders, BSA President Robert Gates said today (May 21), lending credence to the concern expressed in a 2013 Southern Baptist Convention resolution that opening the group's membership to homosexual youth was "merely the first step toward future approval of homosexual adult leaders in the Scouts." Read More

• 'God is with you wherever you go,' Akin tells grads

  by Staff/SEBTS communications, posted Thursday, May 21, 2015 (9 years ago)

  

  Photo by Bailey Shoemaker

  WAKE FOREST, N.C. -- "Our God is a global God. He is always with those who are on mission with him," Daniel Akin, president of Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary, said to the seminary's spring 2015 graduates.

  Southeastern's 61st graduating class included 274 graduates receiving 44 undergraduate, 197 graduate and 38 doctoral degrees. Read More

• Ohio Baptists praying outside 88 county seats

  by Diana Chandler, posted Thursday, May 21, 2015 (9 years ago)

  

  Submitted photo

  COLUMBUS, Ohio (BP) -- Ohio Southern Baptists are praying publicly outside all 88 county headquarters across the state through May 29, proclaiming Scripture, praising Jesus and pleading for county officials, businesses and community concerns, organizer Cathy Pound told Baptist Press.

  "Most of the counties have specific concerns," said Pound, Women's Missions and Ministries Resource Group leader with the State Convention of Baptists in Ohio. "Maybe it's single moms, maybe it's drug addiction, maybe it's sex trafficking; whatever their specific concerns are, we've been lifting those concerns up." Read More

• Redeeming your building to reach community

  by Mark Clifton, posted Thursday, May 21, 2015 (9 years ago)

  

  Photo courtesy Community Baptist Church

  ALPHARETTA, Ga. (BP) -- Legacy church planting isn't limited to churches

  at the very end of their lives. Many churches find themselves with buildings far larger than they need even as they struggle to impact their immediate community in a meaningful way.

  They love Jesus and the Gospel. They love lost people, but they can't seem to crack the missional code of the people who live around them. They aren't ready emotionally to turn over their ministry to another entity. Read More

• AT THE MOVIES: Lest we forget veterans

  by Phil Boatwright, posted Thursday, May 21, 2015 (9 years ago)

  For this upcoming Memorial Day weekend, movie critic Phil Boatwright recommends two war movies whose violence clarifies the horror of war and indicates the necessity of battling evil in order to preserve the good. Read More

• Bible Study: May 24, 2015

  by Staff/LifeWay Christian Resources, posted Thursday, May 21, 2015 (9 years ago)

  This weekly Bible study appears in Baptist Press in a partnership with LifeWay Christian Resources of the Southern Baptist Convention. Through its Leadership and Adult Publishing team, LifeWay publishes Sunday School curricula and additional resources for all age groups. Read More