As North Texas prepares to host nearly 4 million fans next month for the World Cup, churches in the Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex are gearing up to reach them for Christ
Institutions of higher learning are facing numerous challenges: a shrinking college-age demographic, nagging questions about the value of advanced degrees, the online revolution, persistent economic sluggishness and escalating costs. Yet, for distinctly Christian institutions of higher education, this is where the challenges begin, not end.
The release of Americans imprisoned in Iran should be a condition of any nuclear deal with the Persian nation, the wife of imprisoned American pastor Saeed Abedini told the House Foreign Affairs Committee Tuesday (June 2).
More than 20 Southern Baptist leaders representing several different ethnic groups sat down to discuss current outreach efforts and explore how the North American Mission Board could effectively help plant churches for diverse populations in cooperation with ethnic Southern Baptist groups.
For his "significant efforts in publicly promoting and defending religious liberty," R. Albert Mohler Jr., president of Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, received the 2015 Edwin Meese III Originalism and Religious Liberty Award from the Alliance Defending Freedom, May 15.
Year-to-date contributions to Southern Baptist national and international missions and ministries received by the SBC Executive Committee are 1.39 percent above the year-to-date SBC Cooperative Program Allocation Budget projection and 1.89 percent above contributions received during the same time frame last year.
The Nigerian military rescued a second set of female captives April 29 from the Sambisa Forest stronghold of Boko Haram in northeastern Borno state, just one day after securing more than 200 girls and 93 women from the same area, the Associated Press reported. But the Chibok school girls are not believed to be among the rescued.
A Washington state great-grandmother, who was ordered to pay $1,001 to the state for refusing to create a flower arrangement for a long-time customer's same-sex wedding, has reportedly raised more than $100,000 from supporters.
Recently the North American Mission Board shared Southern Baptist church plants were up 5 percent in 2014. "We still have a lot of catching up to do because our church planting efforts lost pace with population growth decades ago, but hopefully last year's increase will begin a new trend," says Kevin Ezell, president of the North American Mission Board.
Ronnie Floyd recounts his spiritual journey in prayer, missions, stewardship and other facets of the Christian life now undergirding his role as president of the Southern Baptist Convention.
Robby Gallaty said his journey to passionate discipleship began in 1995 when a college friend shared the Gospel with him. "I rejected the Gospel. ... But I will remember the seeds that he sowed in my life. God would bring that to fruition seven years later," Gallaty said during a discipleship conference in Clemmons, N.C.
