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FROM THE SEMINARIES: Beloved SEBTS professor dies; NOBTS awards students, faculty
Beloved SEBTS English professor Adrianne Miles dies By Chad Burchett WAKE FOREST, N.C. (BP) – Southeastern Seminary and The College at Southeastern remembers the late Adrianne Miles, associate professor of English and linguistics, who went home to be with Jesus on Sunday, May 5, after a difficult yet faith-filled battle with cancer. She was 52. Miles was a much beloved professor, mentor, and friend to hundreds of students, staff, and faculty.
Obituary: Adrianne Miles, beloved Southeastern Seminary English professor, dies at 52
WAKE FOREST, N.C. — Southeastern Seminary and The College at Southeastern remember the late Adrianne Miles, associate professor of English and linguistics, who went home to be with Jesus on Sunday, May 5, after a difficult yet faith-filled battle with cancer. The Southeastern community mourns the passing of Dr. Miles, a much beloved professor, mentor, and friend to hundreds of students, staff, and faculty.
NOBTS trustees receive W. W. Hamilton legacy items, affirm positive reports
Metadata: Topic(s): New Orleans Baptist Theological SeminaryFormat(s): Text Articles Share this post: NEW ORLEANS (BP) – New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary and Leavell College trustees approved faculty changes, received positive academic and financial reports, and welcomed a donation of items of historical value from the family of W.W. Hamilton, the school’s second president.
El primer bautismo en años impulsa el crecimiento de una iglesia en Texas
Metadata: Share this post: MATHIS, Texas (BP) – El pastor Félix Treviño conocía la métrica que dice que una iglesia saludable debe tener un bautismo al año por cada 15 personas en asistencia promedio al culto, pero la Primera Iglesia Bautista de Mathis simplemente no estaba viendo a Dios moverse de esa manera. Treviño se convirtió en pastor de la Primera Bautista en agosto pasado.
David Crowther será propuesto para primer vicepresidente de la SBC
Metadata: Share this post: LENEXA, Kansas (BP) – Steve Dighton nominará a David Crowther para servir como primer vicepresidente de la Convención Bautista del Sur en la Reunión Anual de la SBC de 2024. Crowther es pastor de Immanuel Baptist Church en Wichita. “David Crowther es un líder joven y dinámico que prosperaría en esta posición de liderazgo”, le dijo Dighton a Baptist Press. “Es humilde, un líder servidor, un predicador dotado y un pastor cariñoso”, dijo Dighton.
Los directivos de Gateway eligen presidente a Adam Groza y aprueban a Ferguson como vicepresidenta
Metadata: Share this post: ONTARIO, Calif. – En una votación unánime el lunes 15 de abril, los directivos de Gateway eligieron a Adam Groza como octavo presidente del Seminario Gateway durante su reunión de primavera de 2024. Su cargo comienza el 13 de mayo. “Volví a California en 2010 para formar parte del Seminario Gateway porque creo que formar líderes ministeriales en el oeste de Estados Unidos es una necesidad para los bautistas del sur”, dijo Groza.
Dan Spencer, pastor de Tennessee, candidato a la presidencia de la SBC
Metadata: Share this post: SEYMOUR, Tenn. (BP) – Dan Spencer, pastor sénior de First Baptist Church de Sevierville, Tennessee, se ha convertido en el sexto candidato a la presidencia de la Convención Bautista del Sur en la Reunión Anual de la SBC de 2024 en Indianápolis. Chris Kendall, pastor sénior de Oak City Baptist Church en Seymour, Tennessee, informó el 11 de abril a Baptist and Reflector de su intención de nominar a Spencer, que ha sido pastor de First Baptist desde 2011.
Bible Study: New identity in Christ
Metadata: Topic(s): LifewayFormat(s): Text Articles Share this post: NASHVILLE (BP) – This weekly Bible study appears in Baptist Press in a partnership with Lifeway Christian Resources of the Southern Baptist Convention. Through its Leadership and Adult Publishing team, Lifeway publishes Sunday School curricula and additional resources for all age groups. This week’s Bible study is adapted from the Explore the Bible curriculum.
The prayer secrets of the desert
The 20th century political anarchist Edward Abbey loved the desert and once observed, “What draws us into the desert is the search for something intimate in the remote.” Abbey was not the only person who discovered intimacy in the solitude of the desert. The same could be said for some of the most influential people of prayer mentioned in Scripture. God originally created man in a garden, but He frequently recreates them in a desert.
Orange founder, CEO both resign amid scandal
Metadata: Topic(s): National NewsFormat(s): Text Articles Share this post: CUMMING, Ga. (BP) — Reggie Joiner, founder of Orange, and CEO Kristen Ivey have voluntarily resigned their respective posts effective immediately, according to an email sent to ministry partners today. The group is best known for its popular Orange church resources and conferences that are highly attended by younger pastors and ministry leaders.
Baptist pastor rearrested in Myanmar after mere hours of freedom
Metadata: Topic(s): PersecutionFormat(s): Text Articles Share this post: KACHIN, Myanmar (BP) – A Baptist pastor and religious freedom advocate in war-torn Myanmar was rearrested by junta leaders April 17 after mere hours of freedom, the Associated Press reported April 18.
Immanuel, Little Rock volunteer arrested on sexual assault
Metadata: Topic(s): Sexual AbuseFormat(s): Text Articles Share this post: LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (BP) — A former volunteer for Immanuel Baptist Church turned herself into police April 17 on charges of sexual assault, first degree. Reagan Gray, 26, was a volunteer in the church’s music ministry and a teacher at Little Rock Christian Academy, reported the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette. She had been on leave from her job as a teacher at Sylvan Hills Middle School since Feb. 7.
Danny Akin's lessons from 20 years of ministry | Baptist Press
WAKE FOREST, N.C. (BP) — Danny Akin exudes Great Commission passion. As the longtime president of Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary, Akin has watched the Lord draw thousands of men and women to be trained as disciple makers and has learned many important lessons along the way about what it means to walk with Jesus and live to make Him known. Akin recently sat down to share a few of these lessons and reflect on the past 20 years of ministry.
FROM THE SEMINARIES: SEBTS launches women’s prison ministry; McKinion named director of SEBTS PhD program; SWBTS holds Gospel-Centered Counseling Conference | Baptist Press
Metadata: Series: SBC DigestsTopic(s): Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary, Southwestern Baptist Theological SeminaryFormat(s): Text Articles Share this post: SEBTS prison program trains incarcerated women for ministry By Chad Burchett/SEBTS WAKE FOREST, N.C. (BP) – This semester, The College at Southeastern launched its new North Carolina Field Minister Program for women at North Carolina Correctional Institution for Women, less than 20 miles from The College’s Wake Forest campus.
New prison program trains incarcerated women for ministry
This semester, The College at Southeastern launched its new North Carolina Field Minister Program for women at North Carolina Correctional Institution for Women, less than 20 miles from The College’s Wake Forest campus. This new field minister program will equip incarcerated women for gospel ministry throughout North Carolina’s prison system.
Southeastern's new prison program trains incarcerated women for ministry
Often overlooked by churches and left ill-equipped for gospel ministry, incarcerated Christians live day in and day out in a vibrant mission field without access to training or support to help them flourish as disciple makers. That is why The College at Southeastern first launched its North Carolina Field Minister Program for men in 2016 to biblically and theologically equip incarcerated men for faithful ministry within the North Carolina prison system.
Steven McKinion named director of PhD program at Southeastern
Excited about the announcement, President Danny Akin shared that McKinion faithfully embodies the ethos of the seminary and its Great Commission approach to theological education. “I know Dr. McKinion will serve our PhD students well,” Akin commented, “because he combines a personal commitment to excellence in scholarship with a passion for local church ministry and the mission of Southeastern.” “I am delighted that he will be serving as the director of our PhD program,” Akin added.
What happens when we blame others for ministry difficulties
Metadata: Topic(s): Churches and MinistryFormat(s): Text Articles Share this post: As a pastor, I really do understand. Ministry is hard, and some people in churches never get on board. Nevertheless, Thom Rainer showed years ago that pastors of Breakout Churches “refuse to blame others. They accept the responsibility that comes with being a leader.” Here’s what happens when we simply blame others for ministry difficulties: We stop growing personally.
CULTURE DIGEST: Easter weekend specials bring Jesus films to a screen near you
Metadata: Topic(s): EntertainmentFormat(s): Text Articles Share this post: ‘Jesus’ streaming free this Easter weekend on Sight & Sound TV By BP STAFF BRANSON, Mo. (BP) – Sight & Sound’s “Jesus,” portraying the Savior’s life in a theatrical musical, will be available for free livestreaming Good Friday through Easter, March -29-31. More than 3 million people watched Sight & Sound’s pre-recorded version of the live production during the Easter 2020 weekend, leading to the launch of Sight & Sound TV.
FIRST-PERSON: Intercessory plea for SBC
Metadata: Series: First PersonFormat(s): Text Articles Share this post: Southern Baptists, let us not give up on prayer. Despite the monumental issues we face, we must not forget that, in God’s heart, prayer is far more monumental. Even with the temptation to feel downtrodden or hopeless about the SBC in the past few years, let us not forsake the foundational, enlivening element of prayer inherent in our faith. Let us go to Indianapolis in prayer for our Annual Meeting.
Southeastern hosts summit to equip Asian churches worldwide
WAKE FOREST, N.C. (BP) — Earlier this spring, Southeastern hosted its first Asian Strategic Partnership Summit to discuss mission partnerships and opportunities for theological education among Asian communities in the U.S. and in East and Southeast Asian countries. During the event, Southeastern shared its vision for global theological education and invited dialogue on how best to equip and partner with East and Southeast Asian churches.
Southeastern Seminary hosts summit to equip Asian churches worldwide
Posted Wednesday, March 27, 2024 11:41 am WAKE FOREST, N.C. — Earlier this spring, Southeastern hosted its first Asian Strategic Partnership Summit to discuss mission partnerships and opportunities for theological education among Asian communities in the U.S. and in East and Southeast Asian countries. During the event, Southeastern shared its vision for global theological education and invited dialogue on how best to equip and partner with East and Southeast Asian churches.
EXPLAINER: How Alabama’s IVF bill undermines the dignity of the unborn
Metadata: Topic(s): ERLC, Sanctity of LifeFormat(s): Text Articles Share this post: In February 2024, the Alabama Supreme Court issued a ruling in favor of parents who had utilized in vitro fertilization (IVF) and had their embryos dropped and destroyed at the fertility clinic. The court stated that frozen embryos created and stored in IVF clinics can be considered children under state law.
'Servimos a un Dios que envía', fue dicho a los Bautistas Hispanos en la Conferencia de Evangelismo 2024
Metadata: Share this post: CLAYTON, Ga. – Difundir el evangelio requiere que los cristianos vayan y lo hagan, se les dijo a los Bautistas hispanos de Georgia en la Conferencia de Evangelismo en Español en Clayton el sábado. El pastor Gerardo Mendoza, quien dirige la Misión Bautista Cristo Vive, fue el anfitrión del evento de la Junta de Misiones Bautista de Georgia en la Iglesia Bautista Clayton.
Pastor que respondió al llamado de Dios en su niñez, está invirtiendo en la comunidad hispana del este de Texas
Metadata: Share this post: Fernando Mangieri hizo un compromiso de por vida para servir al Señor después de responder a dos preguntas que a la mayoría de los niños de su edad nunca se les pide: “¿Estás dispuesto a morir por Jesús? ¿Estás dispuesto a dejarlo todo por Él?”. Mangieri, que entonces tenía 9 años, respondió a esas preguntas, formuladas por unos misioneros que ministraban a los niños en un retiro, con un “sí” definitivo.
Send Relief, IMB, Red Network: La colaboración del Reino impulsa el crecimiento de la iglesia colombiana
Metadata: Share this post: BOGOTÁ, Colombia – Cuando un grupo de ocho plantadores de iglesias de Send Network (Red de Envío) viajó a Bogotá, Colombia, para aprender de los misioneros de la Junta de Misiones Internacionales (IMB) y trabajar junto a ellos durante una semana, no tenían ni idea del impacto duradero que podría tener su colaboración.
The pornography pandemic
Metadata: Format(s): Text Articles Share this post: Pornography is not often talked about in the church, but pornography is often on the minds of many church members. Pornography is a growing pandemic, and it is only getting worse. It is reported that 93% of pastors see it as a much bigger problem than it was in the past. As the Church, we need to ask ourselves, “What are we going to do about it?” It isn’t an “out there” issue.
Michael Clary será propuesto para primer vicepresidente de la SBC
NASHVILLE (BP) — Jared Moore nominará al pastor de Cincinnati Michael Clary para primer vicepresidente de la Convención Bautista del Sur (SBC) en la reunión anual de la SBC en Indianápolis en 2024, dijo Moore a Baptist Press el 11 de marzo. Moore es candidato para presidente de la SBC.
Guía de Oración para las elecciones presidenciales de 2024
Metadata: Share this post: Los últimos años de la vida estadounidense han sido difíciles. Durante ese tiempo, el país ha sufrido tensiones económicas, culturales y políticas, y esas tensiones han puesto de manifiesto importantes grietas en nuestros cimientos. Este tumulto no carece de precedentes, pero tampoco es del todo normal. Además, 2024 es un año de elecciones presidenciales en un entorno político notablemente polarizado, dividido, enfadado y cargado de emociones.
China most religiously restrictive government globally, Pew says
Metadata: Topic(s): Religious Liberty, The Persecuted ChurchFormat(s): Text Articles Share this post: WASHINGTON (BP) – China is the most religiously oppressive government globally, Pew Research Center said in its latest study of 193 countries, citing the banning of religious publications, broadcasting and worship among 20 categories of persecution. China’s government restricted religion locally and/or nationally in 20 key categories, Pew found in its report.
Prioritizing spiritual growth over ministerial productivity
Metadata: Series: First PersonTopic(s): DiscipleshipFormat(s): Text Articles Share this post: Remember Martha? She was industrious, illustrating the adage that no one works harder than someone trying to prove she’s the only one doing anything. She was a pioneer of competitive baking, petitioning Jesus to check the scorecard and note her lead over Mary.
SEBTS Cultivate Conference trains women for missional leadership
Metadata: Topic(s): Southeastern Baptist Theological SeminaryFormat(s): Text Articles Share this post: WAKE FOREST, N.C. (BP) – Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary welcomed more than 450 women on campus March 8-9 for its annual Cultivate women’s leadership conference designed to help women discern their callings, grow in faithfulness to God and His Word, and lead out as disciple makers.
Adams Lectures address preaching in the twenty-first century
Photo courtesy of SEBTS. During chapel on March 5-7, President Danny Akin delivered Southeastern Seminary’s annual Adams Lectures, outlining 75 theses for Christ-centered expository preaching in the twenty-first century. Reflecting on 2 Timothy 3:16-17, Akin offered a list of instructive reminders and principles for faithful preaching, challenging attendees to understand the biblical motivation, spirit, method, doctrinal framework, and goal of Christian preaching.
Southeastern's Exploring Personhood Conference concludes series, addressing challenges to humanity
Posted Tuesday, February 27, 2024 9:59 am WAKE FOREST, N.C. — Created in God’s image, humanity was made for flourishing and relationship with him. However, in our cultures and in our own lives, we see confusion about what it means to be human, and we encounter challenges to living faithfully before God in this world. Addressing these challenges, Southeastern Seminary’s L.
SBC DIGEST: Georgia baptisms increase by 30%; SEBTS Exploring Personhood Conference
Metadata: Series: SBC DigestsTopic(s): Evangelism, SBC News, Southeastern Baptist Theological SeminaryFormat(s): Text Articles Share this post: Baptism count in Georgia churches surpasses 20,000 for first time since 2017 By Roger Alford/Christian Index SUWANEE, Ga. (BP) – An annual count of baptisms in Georgia Baptist churches has surpassed 20,000 for the first time since 2017.
FIRST-PERSON: Yes, He Gets Us. Do we get Him? | Baptist Press
Metadata: Series: First PersonTopic(s): Theology & DoctrineFormat(s): Text Articles Share this post: While 123.7 million Americans watched the Kansas City Chiefs defeat the San Francisco 49ers in the Super Bowl, many saw the “He Gets Us” commercial, which stated that “Jesus didn’t teach hate. He washed feet.” Gallons of ink have been spilled as all stripes of Christians have opined about the strengths and weaknesses of the two “He Gets Us” ads which cost around $20 million.
Historic rural church building, empty for five years, houses new congregation
Metadata: Topic(s): Church Planting, North American Mission BoardFormat(s): Text Articles Share this post: CHULA, Mo. (BP) – Amanda Hicks knew there were bees inside the building that once housed Chula Baptist Church. Everyone in the small Missouri town knew that. The old church had been sitting empty for nearly five years, the last of four churches that once served the small community of Chula, Missouri.
Southeastern hosts annual Go Conference and Global Missions Week
Southeastern believes that the Great Commission is the mission of the Church and that serving churches well means equipping men and women to join in this mission as faithful disciple makers. That is why Southeastern hosts a missions and disciple-making conference each spring and dedicates a week of its spring semester every year to the cause of global missions.
Rhonda Kelley, pioneer in women's ministry, remembered as a 'good and faithful servant'
Metadata: Format(s): Text Articles Share this post: NEW ORLEANS (BP) — Rhonda Kelley, wife of New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary president emeritus Chuck Kelley and a pioneer in women’s ministry, passed away Feb. 17 after a long battle with cancer. She was 72. Author, speaker and a mentor to many, Kelley was known for her vibrant spirit and dedication in serving women in the local church, in the seminary classroom, and at the state and denominational level.
Students urged to leverage their lives for the Gospel at SEBTS Global Missions Week
Metadata: Topic(s): International Missions, Southeastern Baptist Theological SeminaryFormat(s): Text Articles Share this post: WAKE FOREST, N.C. (BP) – This year’s Go Conference, part of Global Missions Week at Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary and The College at Southeastern, called hundreds of college-aged students to leverage their lives for the Great Commission.
Be willing to try
Metadata: Share this post: “We’ve never done it that way… but I’m willing to try it.” This was the response of one of our church’s worship team leaders after I shared a plan to return from the pandemic that would stretch our all-volunteer team to the limits. We were moving from one service to three, two on Sunday morning and one on Saturday night.
Southeastern Seminary announces new program to foster fellowship with churches
The driving mission of the Church is to make disciples who make disciples. As a Great Commission seminary, Southeastern seeks to partner in this mission and serve the Church by biblically and theologically equipping students as disciple makers in their local churches. The new Southeastern Church Fellowship is an exciting expression of this partnership, inviting churches to come together around a common vision for equipping students to serve the Church and fulfill the Great Commission.
7 reasons why some prodigals return
Metadata: Format(s): Text Articles Share this post: I recently wrote a post entitled, “8 Reasons Some Young People are Walking away from Their Faith” for Thom Rainer’s Church Answers group (you can also find it on this site here). I admit that reading may have been discouraging, albeit honest and accurate. So, here’s the flipside of that post: from my experience, 7 reasons why some prodigals return to their family and their faith: Somebody’s been praying for them.
EXPLAINER: Why SOGI laws violate the spirit of the Civil Rights Act
Metadata: Topic(s): ERLCFormat(s): Text Articles Share this post: Within the scope of modern history, the year 1964 remains a seminal moment, due largely to the enactment of the Civil Rights Act, which fundamentally transformed the societal landscape of the United States. The Civil Rights Act of 1964, a landmark piece of civil rights legislation, sought to dismantle the entrenched structures of racial segregation and discrimination.
N.C. pastor Clint Pressley to be nominated for SBC president in Indy
Metadata: Topic(s): Annual Meeting, SBC NewsFormat(s): Text Articles Share this post: MONROE, N.C. (BP) – Clint Pressley, senior pastor of Hickory Grove Baptist Church in Charlotte, will be nominated for president of the Southern Baptist Convention (SBC) during this summer’s SBC annual meeting in Indianapolis, Indiana. In a news release emailed to the Biblical Recorder on Sunday, Jan.
Akin reminds Southeastern students that humility is the way up, not down
Welcoming new students to campus, Mark Liederbach, dean of students at Southeastern, reminded attendees of Southeastern’s foundational commitments and of the biblical passages that uniquely communicate the theme and mission of the institution. “The Bible serves for us as the single highest authority for all that we do and teach,” Liederbach commented as he read from 2 Timothy 3:16-17.
La 51ª Marcha por la Vida, una oportunidad para “reorientar” los esfuerzos provida
Metadata: Share this post: WASHINGTON (BP) – Miles de estadounidenses desafiaron la nieve el viernes (19 de enero) en apoyo de la causa provida durante la 51ª Marcha por la Vida. La Marcha por la Vida de este año es la segunda vez que se celebra desde la histórica anulación de la sentencia Roe contra Wade del Tribunal Supremo en 2022, que devolvió a los estados la legislación sobre el aborto.
Danny Akin celebra 20 años como presidente del Seminario Southeastern
Metadata: Share this post: WAKE FOREST, Carolina del Norte (BP) – Hace veinte años el lunes (15 de febrero), Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary eligió unánimemente a Daniel L. Akin como su sexto presidente, reconociendo la providencia de Dios al dirigir a Danny y a su esposa Charlotte a Southeastern. Ahora en su vigésimo año, Akin se ha distinguido como un líder humilde con un compromiso inquebrantable con la palabra de Dios y un enfoque singular en el cumplimiento de la Gran Comisión.
U.S. House Speaker Mike Johnson, a Southern Baptist, addresses March for Life rally
Metadata: Topic(s): Abortion, Sanctity of LifeFormat(s): Text Articles Share this post: WASHINGTON, D.C. (BP) – Addressing a crowd he called “a beautiful picture of America,” U.S. House Speaker Mike Johnson laid out his philosophy for the American pro-life movement in a speech at a rally just prior to the 51st annual March for Life Jan. 19. The event, which marks the anniversary of the Supreme Court’s now-overturned Roe v.
51st March for Life an opportunity to ‘refocus’ pro-life efforts
WASHINGTON (BP) – Thousands of Americans braved snowy conditions Friday (Jan. 19) in support of the pro-life cause during the 51st annual March for Life. This year’s March for Life gathering marked the second time the event has been held since the historic overturning of the Supreme Court’s Roe v. Wade decision in 2022, returning abortion legislation to the states.
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