Baptist Press Archive

Tuesday, May 24, 2016

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  • Baptists praise UMC reversal on abortion
    by Tom Strode, posted Tuesday, May 24, 2016 (8 years ago)

    "Christians of all denominations should praise God for the [UMC's] historic repudiation of abortion." -- Russell Moore
    WASHINGTON (BP) -- Southern Baptist leaders hailed the United Methodist Church's reversal of its support for abortion rights at its latest conference -- a step taken by the Southern Baptist Convention decades before.

    Delegates to the UMC's General Conference, held every four years, voted to remove the denomination's entities from an ... Read More

  • FIRST-PERSON: Seasoned sermons
    by Jason K. Allen, posted Tuesday, May 24, 2016 (8 years ago)

    Jason Allen, now at his 20-year point in preaching, recaps practices he's learned that bolster sermon preparation. "Vary your Bible reading plan," Allen, president of Midwestern Baptist Theological Seminary, counsels. "Re-preach passages, not sermons. … Preach the hard texts. … Be aware of cultural concerns, but not driven by them." Read More

  • Mohler to grads: Hope for Gospel to 'speed ahead'
    by Annie Corser, posted Tuesday, May 24, 2016 (8 years ago)

    SBTS Photos by Emil Handke
    LOUISVILLE, Ky. (BP) -- Gospel ministers must proclaim God's Word with the urgency of eternal consequences, said President R. Albert Mohler Jr. in his May 20 commencement address to the 2016 graduates of Southern Baptist Theological Seminary.

    During the institution's 216th commencement exercises on the seminary lawn in Louisville, Ky., 284 master's and doctoral students from 44 states and 15 countries received their degrees. Read More

  • Prison ministry focus among pastors, churches studied
    by Bob Smietana, posted Tuesday, May 24, 2016 (8 years ago)

    NASHVILLE (BP) -- While most Protestant pastors visit correctional facilities and want to help prisoners and their families, their churches often lack the training or finances to run an effective prison ministry.

     

    Those are among the findings of a new phone survey of 1,000 Protestant senior pastors from LifeWay Research. Read More

  • Refugees, immigrants spark Reaching the Nations focus
    by Diana Chandler, posted Tuesday, May 24, 2016 (8 years ago)

    BRENTWOOD, Tenn. (BP) -- Spreading the Gospel among the more than 42 million foreign born refugees, immigrants and international students in the U.S. is the focus of the Reaching the Nations in North America conference, an upcoming national event spearheaded by North Carolina Baptists.

    Termed "diaspora missions," ministry to those in the U.S. living outside their birth countries can help evangelize unreached, ... Read More

  • Serve as Christ served, Akin exhorts SEBTS grads
    by Harper McKay, posted Tuesday, May 24, 2016 (8 years ago)

    Photo by Ryan Thomas
    WAKE FOREST, N.C. (BP) -- Sent to lead? Perhaps. Sent to serve? Absolutely.

    With those words, Danny Akin, president of Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary, charged 237 spring graduates to follow Christ's model of service.

    "The greatest person who ever lived and walked on this earth ... Read More