New Mexico Children’s Home Offering Seminary for Houseparents | Baptist Press
PORTALES, N.M. (BP) – Some ideas are so simple, so needed and so good, it’s hard to figure out why it took so long to think of them.
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Greear hosts second of three prayer times for SBC meeting | Baptist Press
NASHVILLE (BP) – SBC President J.D. Greear led the second of three Wednesday sessions of focused prayer for the 2021 SBC Annual Meeting today (June 2) at 2 p.m. CDT.
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Patterson Disputes Seminary’s Allegations, Acknowledges Conservative Network Role
Former Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary President Paige Patterson is disputing allegations made by the seminary in the 2021 SBC Book of Reports that documents and other items belonging to the seminary were “improperly removed” from the campus after his firing in 2018.
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FIRST-PERSON: An open letter to our Great Commission Baptist family | Baptist Press
DULUTH, Ga. (BP) – As we prepare to meet in Nashville for our annual convention, we do so with excitement that we are finally going to be together again physically, but our greater prayer is that we would be more united together spiritually than ever before. With that spirit, we…
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Tulsa Pastors Honor ‘Holy Ground’ 100 Years After Massacre
On Sunday, First Baptist Church of North Tulsa’s current sanctuary throbbed with a high-decibel service as six congregations gathered to mark the centennial of the Tulsa Race Massacre and to honor the persistence of the Black church tradition in Greenwood.
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Preaching at FBC Dallas, Patterson Denounces “Lynch Mob” Trying to Get Him
Just two days after Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary in Fort Worth, Texas, accused former President Paige Patterson of theft, Patterson preached at First Baptist Church in Dallas, Texas, a Southern Baptist megachurch led by Robert Jeffress. Patterson claimed a “lynch mob” was trying to get him.
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Pastor Greg Laurie shares how to ‘overcome the devil’ in sermon on Revelation 11-12
Greg Laurie, senior pastor and founder of the multi-campus Harvest Christian Fellowship in California, explained in a sermon how Christians can overcome the devil as all in an invisible war, a spiritual battle.
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Southwestern Accuses Pattersons of Theft, Improper Donor Solicitation
Three years after trustees at Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary fired Paige Patterson as president, the school alleges Patterson and his wife Dorothy took items from the SWBTS and improperly contacted SWBTS donors to shift funding to the Pattersons’ personal nonprofit.
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Kentucky Work with Baptist Kids Agency at Risk over Gay Rights
A cultural clash pitting religious beliefs against gay rights has jeopardized Kentucky’s long-running relationship with a foster care and adoption agency affiliated with the Baptist church that serves some of the state’s most vulnerable children.
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The ‘miracle’ of Joplin: Church’s ministry grows out of tornado’s devastation | Baptist Press
JOPLIN, Mo. (BP) – After tornado alarms sounded in Joplin on May 22, 2011, Pastor John Swadley of Forest Park Baptist Church here took shelter with his family in a crawlspace under their home. They listened to radio reports covering the storm and its devastating aftermath.
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FIRST-PERSON: Remembering Memorial Day | Baptist Press
ALPHARETTA, Ga. (BP) – Memorial Day 2021 will be radically different than its annual observance 12 months ago. This time last year our nation was struggling against the deadly coronavirus pandemic, a global plague that has taken the lives of more than 600,000 Americans.
