Stories tagged with: fred luter

• Cross & steeple of Luter's new church grace skyline

  by Diana Chandler, posted Tuesday, March 26, 2019 (5 years ago)

  

  Photo from Facebook

  NEW ORLEANS (BP) -- The near-150-foot glass steeple and solid cross mark the new home of Franklin Avenue Baptist Church led by pastor Fred Luter Jr.

  "It is something that you just cannot miss," Luter told Baptist Press. "It's like being in St. Louis and seeing that big ole arch. If you're on the interstate, you're going to see it. You just can't miss it." Read More

• FIRST-PERSON: Don't ditch your denomination

  by Fred Luter, posted Wednesday, August 22, 2018 (6 years ago)

  Fred Luter, the first African American president of the Southern Baptist Convention, recounts the moment when the church he leads decided whether to stay in the SBC. Read More

• Evangelism rally at Baptist univ. seen as catalyst

  by Nathan Handley, posted Wednesday, March 02, 2016 (8 years ago)

  

  Photo by Kristi Woody

  JACKSON, Tenn. (BP) -- Although it was a one-day evangelism rally, organizers are envisioning it as a catalyst for stirring Southern Baptists to share their faith.

  The West Tennessee Evangelism Rally at Union University drew more than 800 attendees to hear key pastors and evangelists relay advice and encouragement for local Baptists' evangelistic efforts. Read More

• Luter, on race relations, sees church as unifier

  by Marilyn Stewart, posted Thursday, February 18, 2016 (8 years ago)

  

  Screen capture from YouTube

  NEW ORLEANS (BP) -- Race relations issues have not improved since the election of the first African American U.S. president, but the church can lead in modeling reconciliation, said Fred Luter Jr., immediate past president of the Southern Baptist Convention, the first African American to hold the position. Read More

• Evangelism rally slated at Baptist university

  by Tim Ellsworth, posted Monday, January 25, 2016 (8 years ago)

  

  Photo by Kristi Woody

  JACKSON, Tenn. (BP) -- Ernest Easley recently looked through a file folder from 1984 where he came across an old Texas Baptist leadership magazine.

  "On every page there was something about evangelism, outreach, training, rallies," said Easley, professor of evangelism at Union University. "I don't read much emphasis anymore on evangelism," he said, voicing concern that Southern Baptists aren't fanning the flame of evangelism like they once did." Read More

• NAAF affirms 'living holy & clean in 2015'

  by Diana Chandler, posted Wednesday, October 14, 2015 (8 years ago)

  

  Photo by Diana Chandler

  PHILADELPHIA (BP) -- Christians can lead holy lives by the same power the Apostle Paul called on in his struggle between the flesh and the Spirit recorded in Romans 7, immediate past Southern Baptist Convention President Fred Luter told worshippers at a Philadelphia gathering of black Southern Baptist pastors and leaders.

  "The reason Southern Baptists … I am convinced that we can win ... Read More

• KATRINA 2005-15: God's work during, after the storm

  by Marilyn Stewart/Louisiana Baptist Message, posted Monday, August 31, 2015 (9 years ago)

  

  Baptist Press file photo

  NEW ORLEANS (BP) -- From the belly of a Coast Guard helicopter, Aviation Maintenance Technician 3rd Class Allan Campbell snapped photos of Edgewater Baptist Church days after levee breaks from Hurricane Katrina left 80 percent of New Orleans under water. The church steeple dangled on its side, its tip pointed downward into deep water.

  For Campbell, the devastation was personal. Two months earlier, he had walked his bride down the aisle on their wedding day and out through doors now submerged in water. Read More

• KATRINA 2005-15: Still in our 'mind & heart

  by David E. Crosby, posted Thursday, August 27, 2015 (9 years ago)

  NEW ORLEANS (BP) -- Survivors of Hurricane Katrina still share their stories, still experience the trauma in "mind & heart," New Orleans pastor David Crosby writes. "Our memories are not all pleasant, but they are powerful," he writes. "And they continue to shape the people that we are and will become." Read More

• KATRINA 2005-15: 'Test of our faith'

  by Fred Luter, posted Tuesday, August 25, 2015 (9 years ago)

  NEW ORLEANS (BP) -- The devastation of Hurricane Katrina 10 years ago, New Orleans pastor Fred Luter writes, was "a test of our willingness to come back and rebuild. … We will never be the city we had before." Read More

• FATHER'S DAY: Churches promote, equip 'servant leaders' at home

  by David Roach, posted Thursday, June 18, 2015 (9 years ago)

  

  Photo courtesy of Bell Shoals Baptist Church

  NASHVILLE (BP) -- When Fred Luter had a son, he wanted to give him a biblical name. So he decided on "Chip." As in, "chip off the old block" -- a reference to the oft neglected biblical principle that children's lives are shaped by the spiritual, intellectual and emotional leadership of their fathers. Read More