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Jan 22, 2025 | 
baptistpress.com | Michelle Workman |Art Toalston |Scott Barkley |Tom Strode
Metadata:Topic(s): Southwestern Baptist Theological SeminaryFormat(s): Text ArticlesShare this post: FORT WORTH, Texas – During the Jan. 21 spring convocation address, David S. Dockery, president of Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary, invited Southwesterners to join him in considering what it means to serve and live in community, explaining the importance of the communion of saints and how it impacts the institution.
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Jan 22, 2025 | 
fggam.org | Dewey Moede |Art Toalston
Very good stuff here! Glory!Baptist PressBy , posted January 21, 2025 in North American Mission Board, Theology & DoctrineALPHARETTA, Ga. – There’s no disgust or anger when Trevin Wax talks about the Church. Instead, there’s compassion, a love for the followers of Christ.
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Jan 21, 2025 | 
baptistpress.com | Art Toalston |Scott Barkley |Tom Strode |Tobin Perry
The photos below show some of the work being done by California Southern Baptist Disaster Relief amid the devastating wildfires in Southern California. Photos by Robert Jordan
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Jan 21, 2025 | 
baptistpress.com | Art Toalston |Scott Barkley |Tom Strode |Tobin Perry
Metadata:Topic(s): ImmigrationFormat(s): Text ArticlesShare this post: WASHINGTON (BP) – Incoming President Donald Trump has halted for at least 90 days a refugee admissions program that resettled 100,000 individuals fleeing persecution in fiscal year 2024, including nearly 30,000 Christians. By an executive order Jan.
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Jan 21, 2025 | 
baptistpress.com | Art Toalston |Scott Barkley |Tom Strode |Tobin Perry
Metadata: Topic(s): North American Mission Board, Theology & DoctrineFormat(s): Text Articles Share this post: ALPHARETTA, Ga. – If anything good can come from an institution like the Church being attacked, Trevin Wax thinks it can lead “to a purer, better institution in the future.” “For us as people who love Jesus and His Church … we need to make sure we are aware of the of the gravity of our choices, of the long-lasting effects of cynicism in the culture and the Church.” Wax, vice...
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Jan 21, 2025 | 
baptistpress.com | Art Toalston |Scott Barkley |Tom Strode |Tobin Perry
Metadata:Topic(s): North American Mission Board, Theology & DoctrineFormat(s): Text ArticlesShare this post: ALPHARETTA, Ga. – There’s no disgust or anger when Trevin Wax talks about the Church. Instead, there’s compassion, a love for the followers of Christ.
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Oct 8, 2024 | 
baptiststandard.com | Ken Camp |Art Toalston
YAZOO CITY, Miss.—Owen Cooper wasn’t a Baptist when he left for college, intending to be a Presbyterian as was his mother. But Bible-reading led the young Mississippian into a faith journey that helped shape Southern Baptists during the latter half of the 20th century. He did so as a layman who founded a large-scale fertilizer plant. Fifty years ago, Cooper ended two terms as president of the Southern Baptist Convention—among only a few laymen ever elected to the office.
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Oct 4, 2024 | 
baptistpress.com | Chad Austin |Art Toalston |Lonnie Wilkey |Scott Barkley
RALEIGH, N.C. — N.C. Baptists on Mission Disaster Response Coordinator Tom Beam used an unexpected personal audience with President Joe Biden earlier this week to talk about the response efforts to Hurricane Helene taking place all across western North Carolina. “I introduced myself on behalf of Baptists on Mission and told him, ‘We are the yellow shirts,’” Beam said. “He said, ‘I know who you all are.’”Beam’s meeting with the president came during Biden’s trip to North Carolina on Wednesday, Oct.
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Oct 4, 2024 | 
baptistpress.com | Art Toalston |Lonnie Wilkey |Scott Barkley |Tom Strode
Metadata:Topic(s): SBC NewsFormat(s): Text ArticlesShare this post: Editor’s note: See related story about laymen’s importance in the SBC here. MEMPHIS, Tenn. – Laymen serve in their churches as deacons and elders, Sunday School teachers, committee members, disaster relief volunteers and in various boards and committees of the Southern Baptist Convention and 40-plus state Baptist conventions.
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Oct 4, 2024 | 
baptistpress.com | Chad Austin |Art Toalston |Lonnie Wilkey |Scott Barkley
Metadata:Share this post: HOUSTON—Lázaro Riesgo, pastor de Sagemont Encuentro, es producto de las personas que Dios ha traído y sacado de su vida. Riesgo tenía tres años cuando su padre salió de Cuba buscando encontrar una vida mejor para la familia en EE.UU. Sin embargo, el padre no regresó, dejando a la familia luchando por superar el trauma y el sufrimiento que conlleva el abandono.
