Stories tagged with: platt

• WORLDVIEW: First things first

  by Erich Bridges, posted Tuesday, January 13, 2015 (9 years ago)

  IMB leader David Platt's counsel for planning your year: Listen to God; then obey Him. "We can become so consumed with the material realm, so consumed thinking about our plans and our strategies," Platt says, "[that] we become blind to spiritual realities." Read More

• MISSIONS: Our obligation to the nations

  by David Platt, posted Tuesday, December 09, 2014 (9 years ago)

  IMB President David Platt, adding his voice to this year's prayer emphasis for international missions in the Southern Baptist Convention, writes that global mission is "the purpose for which each of us was created." Through the Lottie Moon Christmas Offering for International Missions, he writes, "you are fueling and sustaining a missions movement with eternal ramifications." 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

• 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

• IMB's Platt reflects on listening, learning

  by Erich Bridges, posted Tuesday, October 21, 2014 (9 years ago)

  ASIA (BP) -- A gathering of Southern Baptist missionaries grappling with what's working in missions -- and what isn't -- welcomed a new colleague to the strategic discussion: IMB President David Platt. Read More

• Prayer webcast slates Ezell, Platt, Floyd

  by Staff, posted Tuesday, September 16, 2014 (10 years ago)

  ALPHARETTA, Ga. (BP) -- On Oct. 2, Southern Baptists are encouraged to take time to pray for pastors and missionaries engaged in spreading the Gospel worldwide. The special day, including a webcast, is part of the North American Mission Board's TenTwo prayer emphasis based on Jesus' call in Luke 10:2 to pray for more workers in the harvest field. Read More