SBC News

WASHINGTON (BP) – Thousands of pro-life Americans, including many Southern Baptists, gathered near the U.S. Capitol on Friday (Jan. 24) for the 52nd annual March for Life.

OMAHA (BP) —Like so many others over the last 2,000 years, Tanner Devereaux couldn’t get over the words of Paul’s letter to the Romans. Sitting in a Missouri prison cell and reviewing a Gospel tract given to him by a friend, Devereaux felt like Paul was writing directly to him.

Editor’s note: The following is an excerpt from “The Church and the Missionary,” The Great Commission Baptist Journal of Missions, published by the International Mission Board. The IMB has always required church endorsement for service overseas. Most missionaries were part of a healthy church where discipleship and accountability shaped their call. Churches committed to pray […]

WASHINGTON (BP) – The U.S. House of Representatives has passed the “Born-Alive Abortion Survivors Protection Act,” a bill aimed at protecting newborn babies that survive attempted abortions. The bill was endorsed by the SBC’s Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission (ERLC).

The late baritone Barry White serenaded his sweetheart in 1974, proclaiming, “You’re the First, the Last, My Everything.” But have you ever truly considered that of any one person?

In 1750, shortly after the end of the Great Awakening in America’s British-controlled colonies, Virginia Loyalist Henry Sharp’s slave, Nancy, gives birth to George, a son who takes his slave father’s name, Liele. 

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (BP) -- It’s pink and purple, it has a Bible verse on it and it’s understandably a little rough around the edges. It is, after all, one of the only items Send Network church planter Ronnie Rentz managed to rescue from his girls’ bedroom.

BRENTWOOD, Tenn. — Lifeway’s B&H Publishing Group and Holman Bibles have released the “CSB Grace Bible for Adults” with dyslexia in partnership with 2K/DENMARK and Cambridge University. This announcement follows the “CSB Grace Bible for Kids” in October, a first-of-its-kind Bible for readers with dyslexia. 

PASADENA, Calif. – When Trenton Mueller moved from Tennessee to Southern California to begin the church planting process, he never would have imagined his journey would intersect with one of the greatest tragedies Los Angeles would ever face.

GULFPORT, Miss. (BP) — Two weeks ago, Pastor Jimmy Stewart of First Baptist Church preached a sermon titled “Ask. Seek. Knock,” based on Matthew 7:7. Afterwards Matthew and Kaley Dean talked to their young children over identifying one specific, measurable thing to ask of God.