Lottie Moon: ‘Scripture planting’ getting Gospel to unreached
EDITOR'S NOTE: The Lottie Moon Christmas Offering for International Missions in tandem with Cooperative Program gifts from Southern Baptist churches support approximately 4,800 international missionaries in seeking to fulfill the Great Commission. Gifts to the Lottie...
Mobilizing Churches to Plant Churches
As the North American Mission Board heads into the fourth year of the Send North America (SNA) Strategy, I have been taking inventory of all that God has done up to this point. We have seen the number of church plants increase from 769 in 2010 to averaging nearly...
CALL TO PRAYER: Anticipating Jesus’ coming
by Frank S. Page EDITOR'S NOTE: This column is part of the call to prayer issued by Frank S. Page, president of the Southern Baptist Convention Executive Committee, to pray for revival and spiritual awakening for our churches, our nation and our world. NASHVILLE (BP)...
The Church and Mental Illness Part 1: Aspirations v. Reality
By Ed Stetzer A significant percentage of pastors aspire to address mental illness, but how many actually do? Mental health has been a hot topic of conversation lately, and rightly so, because the church honestly doesn’t know how to deal with the multi-faceted issue....
‘Hard to argue with’ CP success, pastor says
PLEASANT GROVE, Utah (BP) -- Maxine Warren takes home the coffee left over from fellowships at First Baptist Church in Pleasant Grove, Utah, not wanting to see it thrown out. She and her husband Louis, in their early 80s, were children during America's Great...
WORLDVIEW: Where global outreach begins
by Erich Bridges EDITOR'S NOTE: Missions columnist Erich Bridges, writing in conjunction with Southern Baptists' Week of Prayer for International Missions, notes that a vibrant spiritual relationship with Christ is foundational to global outreach. "One Sacred Effort...
Birth accounts in Matthew & Luke “complementary & make different points”
By David Roach NASHVILLE (BP) -- A historian named Julius Africanus was among the first Christians to wonder why the stories of Jesus' birth in Matthew and Luke differ slightly. Around the year 200, Julius apparently sought Jesus' living relatives to ask them why the...
Cooperative Program 2% above budget projection
NASHVILLE (BP) -- Year-to-date contributions to Southern Baptist national and international missions and ministries received by the SBC Executive Committee are $31,959,358.96, or 2 percent more than the year-to-date SBC Cooperative Program Allocation Budget...
Americans share views on marriage, church & state roles
by Bob Smietana NASHVILLE (BP) -- About half of Americans are ready for separation of church and state when it comes to weddings, a LifeWay Research survey shows. Six in 10 say the government should not define or regulate marriage. And more than a third of Americans...
Heartland Interstate Strategy vision tour reveals spiritual need
By Lee Warren SIOUX CITY, Iowa (Minnesota-Wisconsin Baptist & The Pathway) -- Participants of the Heartland Interstate Strategy (HIS) vision tour exited the bus on Prospect Hill and gazed into South Dakota, Iowa and Nebraska. Dr. Leo Endel, a former pastor in the...
