ST. LOUIS – Never has prayer been more needed than now, Southern Baptist Convention (SBC) President Ronnie Floyd said in his recent announcement about a prayer gathering scheduled during the Tuesday evening session of the SBC Annual Meeting, June 14. In an April 18th announcement on his blog (www.ronniefloyd.com), Floyd said that the entire Tuesday evening session will be devoted to prayer. Floyd listed the components of this year’s “National Prayer Gathering”: • “Spiritual leadership: … [Read more...]
Allen addresses worldview
HANNIBAL – Christians must base their understanding of marriage and family—as well as all those issues facing the church today—on a worldview shaped by the Word of God, Anthony Allen, president of Hannibal-LaGrange University here, said during the opening of the Worldview Conference, April 14. “From a Christian worldview, we understand God has created,” Allen said. “After so much was good with creation, God found it was not good for man to be alone. Marriage was designed for companionship … [Read more...]
Mitchell talks on life, death
HANNIBAL – Especially in this high-tech society, families are often faced with serious questions about the beginning of life and about dying—questions that C. Ben Mitchell, Graves Professor of Moral Philosophy at Union University, addressed during two presentations at the Missouri Baptist Convention’s Worldview Conference, April 14. Churches are all-too-often unprepared for one beginning-of-life issue facing families in their own congregation: namely, infertility. “Infertility is like any … [Read more...]
Study: Healthy babies can still be born after abnormal tests
CAMBRIDGE, England (WNS) – New research suggests women who terminate their pregnancies because of an abnormal prenatal test may be aborting perfectly healthy babies. Doctors frequently offer birth defect tests to pregnant women whose babies are at increased risk of abnormalities. One of the tests that can be performed earliest in pregnancy, chorionic villus sampling (CVS) analyzes cells from the placenta between 11 and 14 weeks of gestation. Physicians often believe the presence of … [Read more...]
Women’s roles in SBC focus of council
ATLANTA (BP) – A diverse group of 18 women is studying the perspectives and strategies women in Southern Baptist churches bring to the God-given task of fulfilling the Great Commission. Among these women is Rhonda Rhea, Pathway columnist and wife of Richie Rhea, pastor of First Baptist Church in Troy, Mo. They comprise the Women’s Ministry Advisory Council appointed by Frank S. Page, president of the Southern Baptist Convention Executive Committee. The council joins a list of advisory … [Read more...]
Archaeologists buttress early dating of OT books
NASHVILLE (BP) – A study suggesting widespread literacy among ancient Hebrews before 600 B.C. has been dubbed “one more nail slammed in the coffin” of liberal theology’s argument that Old Testament books could not have been written during the lives of David, Moses and other scriptural authors. The finding from a team of Israeli archaeologists and mathematicians counters notions that literacy was rare and isolated before the Jews’ exile to Babylon. “There’s plenty of evidence to suggest … [Read more...]
Transgender student wins restroom case appeal
RICHMOND, Va. (BP) – A federal appellate court has “for the first time ever” held that a public high school may not provide separate restrooms and locker rooms for students on the basis of biological sex alone, according to dissenting judge’s opinion. The fourth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Richmond, Va., threw out a lower court’s dismissal of a lawsuit by a transgender student claiming the Gloucester County, Va., school board discriminated against her by not allowing her to use the … [Read more...]
Burl Cain, former Angola warden, exonerated
BATON ROUGE, La. (BP) – Burl Cain, a longtime warden who infused faith into what had been called the nation’s most violent maximum security prison, has been cleared of alleged ethics breaches following investigations by two Louisiana state agencies. “Thank you so much for the prayers,” said Cain, former warden at the Louisiana State Penitentiary in Angola, speaking to the state’s Baptists in an exclusive interview with the Baptist Message newsjournal. A Southern Baptist, Cain was Angola’s … [Read more...]
Crouse: God is perfect, trustworthy
HANNIBAL – Janice Crouse shared God’s faithfulness in a personal challenge and how evidence shows marriage benefits society at the Worldview Conference April 7 at Hannibal-LaGrange. Crouse is the executive director of World Congress of Families IX and previously served as executive director and a senior fellow at The Beverly LaHaye Institute, the think tank for Concerned Women for America. “Christians are not without trials,” Crouse said as she testified to God’s work in her own life. … [Read more...]
1,000 Missouri Baptists to SBC Annual Meeting
Last September, SBC President Ronnie Floyd asked me, “When Southern Baptists come to St. Louis, how many messengers can we expect from Missouri?” I thought for a moment and looked at the number of messengers from Ohio at last year’s Annual Meeting and thought, “According to Jim Wells’ registration report, the churches in Ohio sent 723. Surely, we can do better than that.” With great confidence I told Dr. Floyd, “The Lord is doing a fresh work in our state. You can expect at least 1,000 … [Read more...]
Wilcox: Marriage makes a healthy community
HANNIBAL – Families based upon healthy marriages make for healthy communities, Brad Wilcox said during the first of two presentations at the Missouri Baptist Convention’s Worldview Conference, April 14. “I’m sure you’ve heard this idea, this phrase, that it ‘takes a village to raise a child,’” said Wilcox, who is director of the National Marriage Project and serves as an associate professor of sociology at the University of Virginia. “I would just add to that, ‘It takes a married village … [Read more...]
Yeats: Orphan care displays gospel
HANNIBAL – Missouri Baptists can display the power and truth of the gospel by caring for orphans and foster children, John Mark Yeats said during the Worldview Conference at Hannibal-LaGrange University here, April 14. “If we will be those Christians who follow the biblical care mandates, we will profoundly disrupt secular worldviews, and we will powerfully demonstrate the truth of the gospel,” Yeats, dean at Midwestern Baptist College, SBC, on the campus of Midwestern Seminary in Kansas … [Read more...]
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