TAMPA, Fla. (ABP) — Humor is both Susan Sparks’ heart and her arms to embrace strangers and implode barriers that would keep them from Jesus. Susan Sparks The stand-up comic who is also a pastor and former lawyer embodies a…
Pastor says God chooses who will be saved
PASADENA, Calif. (ABP) – A Southern Baptist pastor told a California audience June 26 that the notion that God foreknew which believers would freely choose to accept Christ is false. Steve Lawson, pastor of Christ Fellowship Baptist Church, Mobile, Ala.,…
Burmese refugees joyful despite persecution, say visitors
KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (ABP) — Baptist World Alliance President John Upton was part of a seven-member delegation to visit refugees near the border between Thailand and Myanmar while en route to meetings this week in Malaysia. Upton, executive director of…
Missouri Baptist Foundation files second appeal
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (ABP) — For the second time, the Missouri Baptist Foundation is seeking to appeal a Cole County judge's ruling that could force the institution to return control to the Missouri Baptist Convention. The Foundation filed a notice…
Malaysian Baptists welcome BWA leaders at colorful dinner
KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia — Baptist World Alliance leaders thanked their Malaysian hosts at an opening dinner that kicked off the BWA’s July 3-9 Annual Gathering in this southeast Asian country. Indigenous Baptists from Malaysia perform a folk dance during the…
Refugees on Myanmar-Thai border joyful despite persecution, says group
KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia — Blooming Night is a Myanmar refugee living just across the Thai border who has spent most of her 50-something years hiding in the jungle. But when she isn’t in actual hiding, she is bringing relief to…
Baptists travel to Malaysia for annual meeting
FALLS CHURCH, Va. (ABP) – Baptist leaders from around the world are traveling this weekend to Malaysia for an annual gathering of the Baptist World Alliance. More than 300 Baptist leaders and delegates will converge on Malaysia’s capital of Kuala…
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The Republic of Grace: Augustinian Thoughts for Dark Times, Charles Mathewes (Eerdmans) St. Augustine lived in a time when the empire was crumbling and the world was convulsing with rapid change. Old values were being demolished while new religious beliefs…
Evangelical leader Leith Anderson to retire from Minnesota pulpit
EDEN PRAIRIE, Minn. (RNS) — Evangelical leader Leith Anderson has announced plans to retire as senior pastor of his Eden Prairie, Minn., megachurch. Leith Anderson Anderson will end his 35-year pastoral leadership of the 5,000-member Wooddale Church at the end…
HERITAGE: The stuff of compassion
In the beginning the Baptist churches were collections of like-minded believers who primarily gathered in what they preferred to call “meeting houses” for worship and secondarily for sustaining fellowship with one another. They also extended Christian concern to the needy…
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Transitions ON THE MOVE Rocky Sutphin, to Mount Hebron Baptist Church, Floyd, Va., as pastor. Andy Oliver, to Poplar Springs Baptist Church, Shelby, N.C., as pastor. Angela Yarber, to Wake Forest Baptist Church, Wake Forest, N.C., as pastor of preaching….
OPINION: Goodbye, Sears!
I am a member of that generation that remembers the big full-color Sears, Roebuck and Company catalog — especially the big Christmas “wish book.” When it arrived, everyone took their turns looking through it. Hardware, clothing, appliances, kitchenware, sporting goods,…