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  • Floyd to champion Great Commission to 'exhaustion'
    by David Roach, posted Tuesday, April 02, 2019 (5 years ago)

    Photo by Adam Covington
    DALLAS (BP) -- The Great Commission, the Cooperative Program, supporting pastors and listening to Southern Baptists will be among the early emphases of Ronnie Floyd's presidency at the Southern Baptist Convention Executive Committee, he said during a press conference and a Facebook Live session today (April 2).

    "Our missional vision as Southern Baptists is to present the Gospel of Jesus Christ to every person in the world and to make disciples of all the nations," Floyd said following his election by the EC in Dallas. "It will be to that end, that end of reaching the world that I will give my life ... in this next season -- 100 percent, from before daylight until exhaustion, until Jesus comes or until He calls me home." Read More

  • Ronnie Floyd elected SBC EC president/CEO
    by Diana Chandler, posted Tuesday, April 02, 2019 (5 years ago)

    Photo by Adam Covington
    DALLAS (BP) -- Ronnie Floyd is the new president and CEO of the Southern Baptist Convention's Executive Committee, elected today (April 2) by ballot vote in a called meeting in Dallas.

    Floyd received 68 of 69 votes cast, the EC said, electing Floyd in an executive session of nearly four hours. Read More

  • Ronnie Floyd named as EC president nominee
    by David Roach, posted Sunday, March 31, 2019 (5 years ago)

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    NASHVILLE (BP) -- Arkansas pastor and former Southern Baptist Convention president Ronnie Floyd will be recommended for the presidency of the SBC Executive Committee, the EC's presidential search committee announced March 31.

    The full EC will consider Floyd's nomination Tuesday, April 2, at a special called meeting in Dallas to begin at 11 a.m. Central at the Grand Hyatt at the Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport. A press conference and then a Facebook Live session at facebook.com/baptistpress will follow the EC meeting, which may end by approximately 3 p.m. Read More

  • Prayers, unity highlight Day of Prayer event in Capitol
    by Tom Strode, posted Friday, May 04, 2018 (6 years ago)

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    WASHINGTON (BP) -- Southern Baptist and other evangelical speakers called for, and hundreds of participants prayed for, unity in the church and country during a National Day of Prayer observance May 3 in the U.S. Capitol.

    The televised evening event in National Statuary Hall came near the close of the United States' 67th annual observance of the National Day of Prayer (NDOP). Multitudes of Americans gathered in thousands of location across the country to pray during the day. Read More

  • Mohler tells NRB of 'new regime of invented rights'
    by Kenneth Chan, posted Friday, May 04, 2018 (6 years ago)

    NRB photo
    WASHINGTON (BP) -- The liberties enshrined in the Constitution are today "confused, contorted, and sometimes even condemned," R. Albert Mohler Jr., president of Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, said at the National Religious Broadcasters' First Amendment Lunch in Washington on May 3.

    "Religious freedom, freedom of speech and the freedom of the press -- along with the other rights recognized and respected within the Bill of Rights -- are all threatened even as other rights are marginalized," Mohler said during the NRB gathering on Capitol Hill sponsored by In Touch Ministries. Read More

  • FIRST-PERSON: The National Day of Prayer
    by Ronnie Floyd, posted Wednesday, May 02, 2018 (6 years ago)

    WASHINGTON (BP) -- Tomorrow an incredible movement will unfold in our country. Millions of Americans across all 50 states will gather in churches, local businesses, the steps of city halls, in schools, neighborhoods and public gathering places for a day of public prayer for the United States of America.

    In one voice, they will lift a single prayer request to God: unity in America.

    This Thursday, May 3, is the National Day of Prayer. It will be the 30th annual observance since President Ronald Reagan signed the amended law designating the first Thursday of May as a day of national prayer, and the 67th observance since the day was first created in 1952 by a joint resolution of Congress and signed into law by President Harry S. Truman. Read More

  • Nat'l Day of Prayer: Unity in nation, among churches
    by Diana Chandler, posted Monday, April 16, 2018 (6 years ago)

    WASHINGTON (BP) -- Unity across the nation and among churches spanning all denominations, generations, races and cultures is the overarching plea of the 2018 National Day of Prayer May 3.

    Mobilizing people across the nation in public prayer events May 3 -- capped by a nationally televised and livestreamed prayer service at 7:30 p.m. (Eastern Time) at the U.S. Capitol Building -- is the day's goal, event president Ronnie Floyd said at nationaldayofprayer.org. Read More

  • Floyd voices call for racial unity at Ark. capitol
    by Tim Yarbrough/Arkansas Baptist News, posted Tuesday, January 16, 2018 (6 years ago)

    Photo courtesy of the Arkansas Baptist News
    LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (BP) -- Ronnie Floyd, senior pastor of Cross Church in northwest Arkansas, who also serves as president of the National Day of Prayer Task Force, issued "A Call to Racial Unity" Jan. 15 at the inaugural Martin Luther King Jr. Holiday Exclusive on the steps of the Arkansas capitol.

    Floyd, the event's keynote speaker, told pastors and other leaders that "racism is Satan's tool" for dividing the church.

    "Pastors and churches must be the prophetic voice of not just doom and gloom, but the voice for hope and future," Floyd, a former president of the Southern Baptist Convention, noted. Read More

  • Congress' prayer tradition upheld by federal judge
    by Tom Strode, posted Thursday, October 12, 2017 (6 years ago)

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    WASHINGTON (BP) -- The constitutionality of legislative prayer gained reaffirmation Wednesday (Oct. 11) when a federal court dismissed an atheist's challenge of the U.S. House of Representatives' right to bar him from delivering an invocation.

    Federal Judge Rosemary Collyer of the District of Columbia said U.S. Supreme Court precedent undergirds the long tradition of prayer to open congressional sessions and the House's rules in carrying out the practice. Collyer's support for legislative prayer in Congress came three months after a federal appeals court invalidated the practice in a North Carolina county. Read More