STANDISH, Maine (ABP) -- A 20-year-old Tennessee Baptist summer missionary was killed June 16 -- and three other summer missionaries and their local Baptist supervisor were injured -- in a car accident in Maine.
The Father's love is relevant today for every Prodigal Son. Word&Way trustee Wade Paris puts the biblical story in today's culture.
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Eighteen bicyclists ranging in age from 23 to 70 — two on a tandem — braved heat, rain and sore muscles to put smiles
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In a surprise move, Southern Baptists said no to two well-known presidential candidates and elected a church planter from Marietta, Ga., to lead them in the coming year.
The Southern Baptist Convention embraced a future uncertain but focused on the Great Commission when a solid majority of messengers adopted the report of the Great Commission Resurgence Task Force June 15.
The Southern Baptist Convention overwhelmingly reaffirmed its intention to spread the gospel throughout the nation and around the world, members of the SBC’s Great Commission Resurgence task force told reporters.
Adopting the report of the Great Commission Resurgence Task Force could have negative repercussions, Morris Chapman warned Southern Baptist Convention messengers during their annual meeting June 15.
Supporters of the Great Commission Resurgence task force took a final opportunity to garner votes for their report when they encouraged 1,300 primarily younger pastors attending the B21 conference Tuesday to leave the luncheon and become fixtures in the meeting hall.
The Great Commission Resurgence is a “natural and spiritual outgrowth of the conservative resurgence,” seminary president Danny Akin told participants in the Southern Baptist Pastors’ Conference.