Midwestern Seminary receives $7 million lead gift for proposed student center
KANSAS CITY, MO (MBTS) - In what President Jason Allen called an answer to prayer for one of the “most significant institutional needs” since the school’s inception in 1957, Midwestern Seminary received a lead gift from an Oklahoma family for a new student center....
10 years after Katrina: ‘The storm changed my entire philosophy of ministry’
by Allen Blume & Seth Brown/Biblical Recorder GULFPORT, Miss. (Christian Examiner) -- Shortly after 10 a.m. on a hot Sunday in August 2005, residents of the Mississippi Gulf Coast heard the familiar tone of the National Weather Service's radio warning....
Suicide draws focus of study
by Lisa Cannon Green NASHVILLE (BP) -- Most Americans believe they are seeing an epidemic in the United States of people taking their own lives, a LifeWay Research study shows. But most Americans don't view suicide as a selfish choice, and they don't believe it sends...
Five keys to an incredible greeters’ ministry
By Thom S. Rainer It’s the one thing all churches can do to reach more people, but it’s one thing most churches give little attention. Most churches can take five simple steps to create and/or improve their greeters’ ministry and potentially see dramatic results. Let...
Tips to help families be on mission
by Paige Turner SOUTHEAST ASIA (BP) -- International Mission Board missionaries serve all over the world. They help tell people about Jesus in jungles, huge cities and rural villages. They’re serving among people from various cultures and religious backgrounds. But...
Time to choose
by Erich Bridges RICHMOND, Va.—Believing in Jesus as Savior isn’t hard. Following Him as Lord — that’s the hard part. We want to do things our way, not His, because we do not love Him enough to obey Him. The saddest part of the story of Jonah, one of history’s most...
Iowa Missions Offering Focus: Impact University
For the past seven years Impact University has offered a servant leadership group called the “Black School” providing the oldest group of students the opportunity to serve other students and staff during the week of camp. The goals of the week are, 1) to challenge...
Four words every Southern Baptist needs today
By Ronnie Floyd In this critical hour in our nation and world, I want to challenge each Christ follower and church to live by these four words. In a day when people want to define their own truth, I believe we need to anchor our lives and ministries in God’s truth. I...
Moore’s ‘Onward’ addresses engaging culture
by Tom Strode NASHVILLE (BP) -- Sanity and Christianity should mark the church's cultural engagement, Russell Moore says. So he wrote a book to help followers of Jesus live up to both. "I noticed that fellow Christians often struggled with how to understand and...
Views on divorce studied
by Aaron Earls NASHVILLE (BP) -- Pastors believe not all divorces are created equal, but for many Americans any reason is as good as another, a new study shows. "Pastors make a distinction about the rightness of a divorce based on the reasons behind it," said Scott...
