Tim Ellsworth

Louisiana Baptists enjoy fellowship, conduct business, pray

ALPHARETTA, Ga. (BP) — A diverse group of more than 120 pastors, association leaders, state convention staff and other leaders within Southern Baptist life gathered at the North American Mission Board (NAMB) in Alpharetta Friday, November 10 for a multiethnic evangelism training event led by NAMB’s evangelism team. There were 45 different language or affinity groups represented at the meeting.

FLEMING ISLAND, Florida (BP) – Cuando Mike Stewart asumió el cargo de director nacional de F.A.I.T.H. Riders en abril de 2016 tras la muerte de su fundador Buddy Newsome, recibió el consejo de ser él mismo.

CORDOVA, Tenn. (BP) — Former Southern Baptist Convention president and Tennessee Baptist pastor Steve Gaines announced to his congregation at Bellevue Baptist Church Nov. 20 that he has been diagnosed with kidney cancer.

ATLANTA (BP) – Former First Lady Rosalynn Carter passed away Sunday afternoon (Nov. 19) at the family’s home in Plains, Ga., the Carter Center announced Sunday. She was 96.

Kentucky Baptists celebrate Gospel work in annual meeting

Nearly 40 years ago, terrorism expert Brian Michael Jenkins made this claim, “The difficulty of defining terrorism has led to the cliché that one man’s terrorist is another man’s freedom fighter, implying that there can be no objective definition of terrorism, no universal standards of conduct in peace. That is not true.” Yet, this line of thinking remains a cliché thoughtlessly espoused to muddy the distinctions between legitimate and illegitimate forms of warfare. Even as recently as the past week, the terrorist organization Hamas has been referred to in similar language on a major news outlet in the United States in relation to the attack on Israel.

Susanna settled into a turquoise armchair in the living room of International Mission Board missionary Julia Dunn’s home in Germany’s Ruhrgebiet region.

PHOENIX – A car crash with a fatality on South Mountain derailed a mission team’s trip to Mexico even as it forged strong bonds between two Southern Baptist churches.

What I have discovered in my life, and in the life of most Christians, is that prayer is often relegated to a mere routine, a preparatory exercise before the real action of our day begins. This is why prayer for many is powerless and meaningless.