Last year at the 2011 Southern Baptist Convention annual meeting in Phoenix, Matt Mowrey took the stage as a testimony to God’s work in Norwich, Conn., through North American Mission Board (NAMB) missionary Shaun Pillay. This year Southern Baptists saw video of Matt’s dad who, shortly after watching last year’s […]
Daily Archives: June 25, 2012
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Called the “Iron Men of the SBC,” some 180 bivocational pastors and their wives from 17 states attended the third annual Bivocational Luncheon Wednesday, June 20, during the SBC annual meeting in New Orleans. The luncheon was sponsored by the North American Mission Board.
With Christians wary of religious freedom under newly elected Egyptian president Mohamed Morsy, a Southern Baptist theologian Mike Edens says that God is still in control and encourages Christians to continue to pray. Morsy, a member of the Muslim Brotherhood, was declared Egypt’s president Sunday in the country’s first democratic […]
Arizona baseball coach Andy Lopez, whose Wildcats are one win away from a College World Series title, says that Jesus Christ has been his Lord and Savior for 34 years. He rises at 5 a.m. every day to spend time reading the Bible and praying for his family. Florida State’s […]
The U.S. Supreme Court has delivered another setback — though not a final one — to the effort to preserve a cross in a southern California veterans memorial. The justices announced Monday (June 25) they would not review a lower court ruling in the case while they await a final […]
Despite repeated attempts to cut it, the D.C. school voucher program has regained funding.
Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary President Paige Patterson invited Southern Baptist Convention messengers to come experience the Dead Sea Scrolls at the seminary during his report to the convention June 19. Patterson was referencing the seminary’s Dead Sea Scrolls & the Bible exhibition, which begins July 2 and runs through January […]