“Because you give” Chalkboard Stories
It was a simple concept — write one thing that happened because Southern Baptists give to international missions. The IMB missionaries just wanted to say "thank you;" never realizing it would turn into a heartfelt celebration of God's work in 2014. As hundreds from...
Pilgrims & Baptists: the little known connection
By David Roach NASHVILLE (BP) -- If not for a Baptist church split, the Pilgrims might never have come to America. Sort of. John Smyth, who often is credited with being the first Baptist, pastored a church where many of the Christians who later came to be known as...
Radical Christianity is ordinary Christianity
By David E. Prince On May 31, 1792, William Carey preached a sermon that has come to be called the deathless sermon because it changed the entire Christian world. Preaching from Isaiah 54:1-2, Carey declared that we must, “Expect great things from God” and “Attempt...
Another Great CP Video from the Missouri Baptists
Where CP Begins: Connecting Missouri Baptists from MBC on Vimeo.
Platt: ‘God saved you to send you’
by Tess Rivers OLIVE BRANCH, Miss. (BP) -- The reality of more than 2 billion unreached people living in more than 6,000 people groups is "totally intolerable," IMB President David Platt told an overflow crowd during an appointment service for 63 new IMB missionaries....
Iowa Baptists Move to a 50/50 Cooperative Program Split at the 2014 Annual Meeting
On Saturday November 8, 2014, the Baptist Convention of Iowa (BCI) held their annual meeting in Des Moines. Worship music was provided by Nick Powel, Dirk Wiese, and Jordan Prescott from Redeemer Church in Cedar Falls. Over 200 messengers and guests representing 51...
Good news: Housing allowance decision overturned, dismissed
By Roy Hayhurst DALLAS — The Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals has overturned a lower court’s ruling that the minister’s housing allowance was unconstitutional. In the decision by the Chicago-based appeals court, it determined that the plaintiffs lacked standing to...
Larry Pruitt, former Iowa pastor goes home
Funeral services for Larry Gene Pruitt, 68, of Ada, were held on October 20 at the Union Hill Baptist Church, Rev. Gary Jamar officiated. Larry Pruitt died Wednesday, October 15, 2014 at a local hospital. He was born February 5, 1946 in Frederick, Oklahoma to Marvin...
IMB’s Platt unfolds five-point strategy
by Tess Rivers OLIVE BRANCH, Miss. (BP) -- IMB President David Platt outlined his five-point strategic plan while presiding over his first trustee meeting as head of the mission agency. In a plan based on five biblical goals which have led to four practical steps and...
Pleading With Southern Baptists
By Ronnie W. Floyd With a deep burden for revival in the church, spiritual awakening in America, and for the world to be reached for Christ, I wrote this simple and brief 16-page e-book entitled, “Pleading With Southern Baptists”. It is imperative we now come together...
