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Wednesday, November 11, 2015

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  • VETERANS DAY: Iwo Jima: young Marine's faith endured
    by Neisha Roberts/The Alabama Baptist, posted Wednesday, November 11, 2015 (8 years ago)

    Photo by Neisha Roberts
    BLOUNT SPRINGS, Ala. (BP) -- Horace Lee was 12 when he "gave my heart to the Lord" at a Baptist church in Alabama; 17 when he entered the Marine Corps in 1940; and 21 when he was wounded in Iwo Jima as the U.S. wrested the strategic island from the Japanese.

    "God taught me a great deal" in the military, Lee, now 91, said. "The Marine Corps complemented God's work by their fellowship … because it's teamwork and fellowship, and if you don't have that then you cannot depend on that fellow behind you.... Read More

  • VETERANS DAY: Veteran's cross-country cycling spotlights missions
    by Makayla Sykes, posted Wednesday, November 11, 2015 (8 years ago)

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    CLEVELAND, Tenn. (BP) -- Army veteran Tom Cawood set out on Aug. 24 to ride his bike from San Diego, Calif., to St. Augustine, Fla. And along the way, he and his wife Pat helped raise awareness for missions and the North American Mission Board.

    At age 81, when most of his contemporaries are slowing down, Cawood gives the impression of gaining speed. His life motto is, "Life is like water skiing, if you slow down, you go down." Read More

  • GOP debate: candidates link economics & ethics
    by David Roach, posted Wednesday, November 11, 2015 (8 years ago)

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    MILWAUKEE (BP) -- The moral implications of economic issues were among the topics addressed Nov. 10 at a Republican presidential debate involving the top eight candidates as determined by Fox Business.

    Malcolm Yarnell, a seminary professor who formerly worked as a bank financial analyst and investment advisor, told Baptist Press Christians should care about economic issues "alongside our other necessary social concerns" because, according to Scripture, "human economies clearly have theological importance." Read More

  • American volunteers partner with Kenyan students
    by Nicole Lee, posted Wednesday, November 11, 2015 (8 years ago)

    Photo by Wes Julian
    WEST POKOT, Kenya (BP) -- Volunteers from Washington state developed a partnership with Kenyan students and saw 28 people baptized when they traveled out of North America for the first time to share the Gospel with an unreached people group in sub-Saharan Africa.

    "Looking back it was just, it was awesome!" said Kevin Melone, one of the volunteers. "It was physically challenging. It was mentally challenging. Man, it was awesome how God just gave us the strength to do it." Read More

  • Yeats: Mo. convention to return to original mission
    by Missouri Pathway Staff, posted Wednesday, November 11, 2015 (8 years ago)

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    SPRINGFIELD, Mo. (BP) -- Missouri Baptist Convention messengers moved forward during their 181st annual meeting in the restructuring of the convention's staff and in defending religious liberty.

    A total of 1,022 messengers and 236 guests from 440 churches met Oct. 26-28 at Springfield's University Plaza and Expo Center, where MBC Executive Director John Yeats set forth a vision of the convention's future by renewing its original mission to "make disciples, multiply churches, and develop leaders."

    Yeats urged Missouri Baptists to embrace a sense of urgency as they engage a culture desperately in need of the transforming Gospel of Jesus Christ. Read More

  • VETERANS DAY: A Navy wife
    by Jeff Iorg, posted Wednesday, November 11, 2015 (8 years ago)

    Seminary president Jeff Iorg, on Veterans Day, pays tribute to wives who empower their husbands for service. "They are the unsung heroes, serving the mission and sacrificing in a thousand quiet ways," he writes. Read More

  • FIRST-PERSON: Can we talk about the Gospel without telling it?
    by Matt Queen, posted Wednesday, November 11, 2015 (8 years ago)

    Evangelism professor Matt Queen proposes that Christians test themselves to be sure they are conveying the Gospel to a lost world, not just talking about it among themselves. Drawing from Judges 12:1-6, Queen calls the test "a Gospel Shibboleth." Read More