ALBANY, N.Y. (BP) – Responding to culture’s toughest questions about the faith was the focus of the first-ever apologetics conference presented by the Baptist Convention of New York (BCNY), April 24-25, in Albany. More than 250 attended.
When Jesus paid our sin debt in full, He was more focused on us than on his personal agony. We should be humbled by the fact that nothing is closer to the heart of God than the salvation of His people.
The Cooperative Program (CP) has caught on with Iowa Baptists – to say the least.
MASCOUTAH, Ill. (BP) – My wife and I, along with our three boys, moved to Mascoutah in 2014, believing that the Lord had called us to start a church in a small southern Illinois town. I had not been introduced to the process of church planting yet. All I had…
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LAKE FOREST, Calif. (BP) – An ordination service last week at Saddleback Valley Community Church reinvigorated an ongoing discussion among Southern Baptists over the title of “pastor” and whether and how that label should be applied to a woman in a ministry context.
Here are seven mothers who were important figures in Christian history, either through the influence they had on their famous children or through their own actions They include a member of the court ...
Trustees cited a lack of money and declining enrollment in deciding to close Baptist-affiliated Judson College, a small school for women which predates the Civil War. The decision Thursday came just days after what could be the last graduation exercises at the college.
FORT WORTH, Texas (BP) – Nathan Lorick, SBTC executive director-elect, knows the challenges of sharing Christ in areas of the country lacking a wealth of Southern Baptist churches. He returned to the SBTC after serving more than three years as executive director of the Colorado State Baptist Convention. On April…
MARION, Ala. (BP) – The Judson College faithful fought hard for five months trying to save the school, but in the end it just wasn’t enough.
BOSTON -- North American Mission Board (NAMB) trustees meeting in Boston unanimously passed a resolution asking the Southern Baptist Convention (SBC) to assign to NAMB the ministry assignment for reaching and mobilizing college and university students in North America.
