FIRST-PERSON: Count your blessings
I do not mean to say that God cannot or does not heal at times. However, the notion that all sickness can be removed by faith is patently false. Sometimes God develops us through trials rather than rescuing us from them.
Prayer partnerships join service opportunities for Crossover
ORLANDO (BP) – Crossover leaders are calling on others to begin the work of Southern Baptists’ pre-Annual Meeting evangelistic outreach 10 days before volunteers descend on the greater Orlando area.
Holy Spirit reemphasis could change churches, rejuvenate evangelism, theologians say
NASHVILLE (BP) – After theology professor Gregg Allison taught about the Holy Spirit to a group of Southern Baptists, an older man approached him. The man said he had been a Southern Baptist 40 years and had not heard a single sermon or lesson on the Holy Spirit until that day. His conclusion: “I feel cheated.”
Texas church goes through digital declutter
GRAPEVINE, Texas – Church at the Cross has been going through a digital declutter this spring, identifying unhealthy connections to technology and intentionally making space for God to form their spiritual character.
New Mexico Children’s Home offering seminary for houseparents
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.
Montana’s new exec gets to work
BILLINGS, Mont. – Mikey Mewborn, vice president of student life at Mid-America Baptist Theological Seminary, recently accepted a call as executive director/treasurer of the Montana Southern Baptist Convention. A friend’s connection, meetings with Montana Baptists and even a few family ski trips helped solidify Mewborn’s heart for the West.
Japanese church plant a first in Kentucky
LEXINGTON, Ky. – When John Livingston went to Japan in 1987 to be an English teacher, serving the Lord and ministering to people was not on his agenda. But God began to give him a burden and heart for the Japanese people, and after years of ministry in Oregon, he and his wife have planted the first Japanese church in Kentucky.
Bible Study: In God, all things hold together
Some think of God only when life and existence have no other explanation. Unbelieving scientists tend to look on this view as evidence that the gaps are narrowing between theism and science. “Give us enough time,” they might say, “and humans will be able to explain how everything in the universe works.”
SBC DIGEST: Carlisle Driggers dies; Max Barnett dies
Carlisle Driggers, former SC state exec, dies at 88; Max Barnett, longtime Baptist Okla. collegiate leader, dies at 89.
Two micro-conferences at SBC Pastors’ Conference full, others filling up
ORLANDO (BP) – Judging by the response, a new feature to the Pastors’ Conference preceding the SBC Annual Meeting may become permanent.
