NASHVILLE (BP) – “Gratitude” and “Graves Into Gardens” singer Brandon Lake won big at last week’s Gospel Music Association Dove Awards at Nashville’s Bridgestone Arena. Lake took home the Dove for Song of the Year for “Hard Fought Hallelujah,” along with southern hip-hop artist Jelly Roll, who co-wrote and recorded the song with Lake. Other writers on the song are Steven Furtick, Chris Brown and Benjamin Williams Hastings. Lake and Jelly Roll performed the hit song together in the … [Read more...]
MBTS’s Duesing Releases children’s book, ‘Praise God, All Creatures,’ with B&H Kids
KANSAS CITY (MBTS) – Midwestern Seminary celebrated the release of the new children’s book Praise God, All Creatures: A Doxology for Children, written by Midwestern Seminary Provost Jason Duesing and released with B&H Kids. “Jason Duesing is a gift to the church,” said President Jason Allen. “Whether through his books on church history or his children’s books, all that he writes proves to be helpful. That is why I am excited about his new children’s book Praise God, All Creatures: A … [Read more...]
This year, The Lesters celebrate a century of gospel music
ST. LOUIS – Untold miles. Many concerts. Scores of songs. One hundred years—and counting—of music ministry. And it continues for The Lesters gospel music group. What keeps them going? “It’s only by the grace and the hand of God,” said third-generation lead baritone Brian Lester. Currently, the traveling make-up of the family group is Brian, his son (fourth-generation) lead tenor Jonathan Lester, and Jonathan’s wife, Bailee. Some of the four children (a fifth child of this fifth … [Read more...]
FIRST-PERSON: The day the ‘Prince of Darkness’ died
EDITOR'S NOTE: This article first appeared on Baptist Press. Rich Bitterman is pastor of Cedar Ridge Baptist Church, Galena, Mo. I was 16 the first time I heard “Mr. Crowley.” The way it began … haunting organ, crashing guitar … grabbed me by the throat. I didn’t know what the lyrics meant. I didn’t care. I was angry, curious, spiritually empty, and Ozzy Osbourne sounded like someone who had seen behind the curtain. He felt untouchable. Immortal. A man who drank from the shadows … [Read more...]
MBTS professor releases ‘Big Thoughts for Little Thinkers’ on Jesus, the church, heaven
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (MBTS) – Midwestern Seminary celebrated the June 9 release of three new installments in the Big Thoughts for Little Thinkers children’s book series by Joe M. Allen III. Allen, who serves as assistant professor of missions in the Gary Taylor Endowed Chair of Missions and Evangelism at Midwestern Seminary, wrote and illustrated the new books, which teach the doctrines of Christ, the Church, and heaven to children four to eight years old. Midwestern Seminary President … [Read more...]
MBTS’s Allen addresses life, doctrine in latest volume of ‘Letters to My Students’
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (MBTS) – Midwestern Baptist Theological Seminary (MBTS) President Jason K. Allen released his latest book, Letters to My Students, Volume 3: On Life and Doctrine, with B&H Publishing, June 3. Focusing on 10 key doctrines and disciplines, Allen’s new book offers wisdom to current and aspiring ministry leaders for guarding the integrity of their gospel witness in their personal, spiritual, and pastoral lives. “In this book, I’m targeting our current ministry moment … [Read more...]
Southern Seminary finds itself in Jeopardy!
NASHVILLE (BP) – Southern Baptist Theological Seminary received a mention on the Jeopardy! Masters April 30 episode in a manner that gave a nod to the school’s devotion to biblical fidelity. “Scripture is the sole authority for faith and practice if you study at SBTS, this theological seminary in Louisville,” host Ken Jennings read to the contestants. Victoria Groce, the reigning Jeopardy! Masters champion who is currently in third place in the tournament, buzzed in first. “What … [Read more...]
Documentary tells stories of Joplin tornado, leaves out God’s faithfulness
JOPLIN – Even as Missouri works to recover from recent tornadoes and damaging winds, for many, every severe weather warning and dark cloud brings to mind the deadly tornado that hit Joplin on May 22, 2011. A new documentary from Netflix, “The Twister: Caught in the Storm,” tells the story of that Sunday evening as people gathered for Joplin High School’s graduation, ran to Target to pick up some hair dye, or just drove around to do some amateur storm chasing. I was on a road trip that … [Read more...]
Animated ‘King of Kings’ tells Jesus’ life at Easter, inspired by Dickens tale
PROVO, Utah (BP) – A few years after Charles Dickens wrote perhaps his most popular book, “A Christmas Carol,” he compiled the long-unpublished work, “The Life of Our Lord,” as a personal gift to his children. Adapted from the Gospel of Luke, “The Life of Our Lord” chronicles Jesus’ life from birth to death to resurrection. As the story goes, Dickens would read it to his children each Christmas season, but it was not published until 1934, decades after the author’s death and a year after … [Read more...]
The First Hymn: Resurrected third-century praise song set for pre-Easter release
LA MIRADA, Calif. (BP) – What was left of the hymn, archeologists found 100 years ago in ancient Egyptian ruins on a scrap of tattered papyrus, long buried by desert sand. The discovery was sealed in a climate-controlled vault at Oxford University until John Dickson came along. Dickson, who joined Wheaton College in 2022 as the inaugural Jean Kvamme Distinguished Professor of Biblical Studies and Public Christianity, began to realize the importance of the papyrus for today’s … [Read more...]
MBTS’s second set of Spurgeon sermons released through Reformation Heritage Books
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (MBTS) — After decades out of print, Charles Spurgeon’s sermons from the earliest years of his preaching at the Metropolitan Tabernacle have been republished for a new generation. Released through a partnership between Reformation Heritage Books and the Spurgeon Library at Midwestern Seminary, the new set contains weekly sermons that Charles Spurgeon preached to his London congregation from 1861 to 1876. “I am very grateful for the release of this second set of … [Read more...]
Eyes up, screens down: Phone free becoming more common at youth events
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (BP) – Peer pressure can be a good thing. It’s not something usually pressed in a student ministry setting, but Bill Newton has discovered its value at Immanuel Baptist Church. Talk to youth ministry leaders and you will soon learn the expansive impact cell phones have on students. Approximately 95 percent of American teenagers have one. To get an idea on the speed at which that point came, consider that in 2011 nearly a quarter of teens (23 percent) had a smart phone. … [Read more...]
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