Baptist Press Archive

Monday, November 10, 2014

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  • Iraq war vet to plant church in Washington state

    by Tobin Perry, posted Monday, November 10, 2014 (9 years ago)

    Photo by Kaitlyn Bernauer/NAMB
    YAKIMA, Wash. (BP) -- Michael Johnson learned a million little things in the U.S. Army. He learned to make his bed Army-style. He learned to march in the Army band. He learned to shoot an M-16 rifle and throw a grenade. Read More

  • Pro-gay ad blitz aimed at Miss. Baptists
    by David Roach, posted Monday, November 10, 2014 (9 years ago)

    JACKSON, Miss. (BP) -- A public relations blitz by the pro-gay Human Rights Campaign aimed at convincing Mississippians that homosexuality is not inconsistent with Christianity has been deemed inaccurate and dangerous by Baptist leaders in the state. Read More

  • TRUSTEES: IMB's Platt unfolds five-point strategy
    by Tess Rivers, posted Monday, November 10, 2014 (9 years ago)

    IMB Photo by Paul W. Lee
    OLIVE BRANCH, Miss. (BP) -- IMB President David Platt outlined his five-point strategic plan while presiding over his first trustee meeting as head of the mission agency. In a plan based on five biblical goals which have led to four practical steps and three initial recommendations, Platt offered two important reminders to reach one all-consuming goal: glorifying God. Read More

  • Platt: 'God saved you to send you'
    by Tess Rivers, posted Monday, November 10, 2014 (9 years ago)

    IMB Photo by Paul W. Lee
    OLIVE BRANCH, Miss. (BP) -- The reality of more than 2 billion unreached people living in more than 6,000 people groups is "totally intolerable," IMB President David Platt told an overflow crowd during an appointment service for 63 new IMB missionaries. Read More

  • 'My heart continues to ache,' Bae says
    by Staff, posted Monday, November 10, 2014 (9 years ago)

    TACOMA, Wash. (BP) -- Stepping onto American soil Nov. 8 for the first time in two years, Korean American missionary Kenneth Bae thanked supporters for their prayers during his two years' of imprisonment in North Korea because of his faith in Jesus. Read More

  • Bible translation highlighted at NOBTS
    by Staff, posted Monday, November 10, 2014 (9 years ago)

    NEW ORLEANS (BP) -- In the world today, billions of people have a written text of Scripture in their language, but cannot read, while 180 million people have no Scripture in their language. Not the New Testament. Not one of the Gospels. Not one word. Read More

  • FIRST-PERSON: The wedding & the marriage
    by Catherine Parks, posted Monday, November 10, 2014 (9 years ago)

    Weddings should be part of the cultural discussion of marriage, author Catherine Parks writes. Christian weddings can be "joyful, reverent and celebratory events," Parks writes. They can help the church nurture "a firm foundation for marriages that, by His grace, point to Christ, build strong families and transform the world." Read More