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WEBNASHVILLE (BP) — There is a tension in ministry: get results now, but not at the expense of long-term effectiveness. The long game is important. Lessons from Matthew 13 are in play, because a seed doesn’t sprout immediately and yet …
ERLC releases 2024 public policy agenda | Baptist Press
WEBJan 24, 2024 · WASHINGTON (BP) – The Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission (ERLC) announced the organization’s policy priorities for the upcoming year through the entity’s annual federal public policy agenda, released Wednesday (Jan. 24).
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WEBNASHVILLE (BP) – Total fiscal year giving for the 2023-2024 was just over $191 million falling a little more than 2 percent below the goal of $195,250,000. Read More ×
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WEBDec 22, 2023 · NASHVILLE (BP) -- In a year when there was war in the Holy Land and devastating fires in paradise, there was still good news to be found. A spiritual fire made its way across the landscape too, as revival once again ignited on campuses in Kentucky and beyond. Many churches…
As Titanic sank, he pleaded, ‘believe in the Lord Jesus!’
WEBApr 13, 2012 · Editor’s note: Sunday (April 15) is the 100th anniversary of the sinking of the Titanic. TAYLORS, S.C. (BP) — It has been 100 years since Titanic, the greatest ship of its time, sank on its maiden voyage, killing more than 1,500 passengers.
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WEBSep 28, 2024 · CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. (BP) — International Mission Board trustees approved the appointment of 69 full-time, fully funded missionaries during their Sept. 25-26 meeting near Richmond, Virginia. Fifty-seven of the missionaries participated in a Sending Celebration hosted by First Baptist Church Park Street, Charlottesville — the historic …
BIBLE STORYING Article 10:Telling the story - Baptist Press
WEBJun 3, 2011 · Baptist Press today concludes its 10-part series focusing on Bible Storying as a way to relay the Gospel to oral learners. Among some unreached people groups, 80 to 90 percent cannot read and in some urban areas of America 30 to 40 percent are either illiterate or functionally illiterate.
NEWS DIGEST: Texas, Mississippi youth pastors arrested on sexual …
WEBJun 21, 2024 · LUBBOCK, Texas (BP) – A Texas youth minister was arrested in Lubbock June 19 for alleged sexual assault. Luke Cunningham, 41, was a youth pastor at Lakeside Baptist in Granbury, Texas. He was accused earlier this month of assaulting a minor at another church.
No settlement in Johnny Hunt suit - Baptist Press
WEBSep 19, 2024 · NASHVILLE (BP) – A social media post from SBC President Clint Pressley indicates there is no settlement in the case of Johnny Hunt vs. the SBC, the SBC Executive Committee and Guidepost Solutions. The mediation attempt was ordered by Chief District Judge William L. Campbell.
FBC Alexandria ‘no longer in friendly cooperation’ with SBC over …
WEBINDIANAPOLIS (BP) – The SBC voted June 11 to discontinue its cooperative relationship with a Virginia church that has a female associate pastor. The church has ordained at least three women as pastors over more than four decades and told the SBC Credentials Committee it would consider a female as…