Wednesday, November 12, 2014

• Believers in trailer park 'give everything they have'

  by Margaret Colson, posted Wednesday, November 12, 2014 (9 years ago)

  

  Photo by Mark Sandlin

  MONROE, Ga. (BP) -- They are the forgotten people. The individuals you might not even notice if you passed them on the street.

  They are in every community. On the fringes of neighborhoods dotted with white picket fences. At the end of gravel roads that seem to go nowhere. The people who wash your dishes at the chain restaurant. Change your car's oil. Scramble your eggs at the local diner. Read More

• Desperate prayer leads 'Miracle' to trailer park

  by Margaret Colson, posted Wednesday, November 12, 2014 (9 years ago)

  

  Photo by Mark Sandlin

  MONROE, Ga. (BP) -- She wasn't supposed to live.

  Born more than a half century ago to a 17-year-old mother, the newborn was not expected to survive more than a few days, if that long.

  Her mother, not yet a Christian, turned to the distraction of television, where a preacher inspired her to pray. She bargained with God that if He would save her baby, then her daughter could serve Him as a missionary. Read More

• MORMONISM: Joseph Smith & polygamy -- a teachable moment

  by Rob Phillips, posted Wednesday, November 12, 2014 (9 years ago)

  JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (BP) -- Does it make any difference that Joseph Smith, founder of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, married as many as 40 women, some of whom already were married and one who was only 14? Read More

• John Perkins: Historic time for race relations

  by S. Craig Sanders, posted Wednesday, November 12, 2014 (9 years ago)

  

  SBTS photo

  LOUISVILLE, Ky. (BP) -- John M. Perkins, an 84-year-old evangelical pioneer in race relations, sees "a pivot place in history" among churches in racial reconciliation and economic justice.

  "This is the first generation of people who are beginning to understand that." It's a generation that "values diversity," Perkins said at Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in this year's Julius Brown Gay Lecture on Christian Ethics. Read More

• Spurgeon lectures held at MBTS; Mohler honored

  by T. Patrick Hudson, posted Wednesday, November 12, 2014 (9 years ago)

  KANSAS CITY (BP) -- On the heels of a major October announcement by Midwestern Baptist Theological Seminary about launching the Charles Spurgeon Center for Biblical Studies, the school held its second annual Spurgeon Lectures on Biblical Preaching on Nov. 4-5. Read More

• 'Be the church,' Colo. Baptists urged

  by Ginger LeBlanc , posted Wednesday, November 12, 2014 (9 years ago)

  CENTENNIAL, Colo. (BP) -- The Colorado Baptist General Convention approved a budget that designates more than half of Cooperative Program receipts after shared expenses for Southern Baptist Convention missions and ministries as messengers gathered around the theme "Be the Church" at the CBGC annual meeting in Centennial. Read More

• FIRST-PERSON: #ThankYouGod

  by Diana Davis, posted Wednesday, November 12, 2014 (9 years ago)

  Diana Davis offers this Thanksgiving idea: Ask church members to provide photos & use social media to say #ThankYouGod. Read More