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God-given femininity: Value it, Kassian says

Kassian, whose husband is a chaplain for the Canadian Football League, shared three ways wives can use their femininity to help, rather than hinder, their husbands in ministry.... Continue Reading »

Mary Cox honored by ministers’ wives

Mary Cox, who has served alongside her husband, Frank Cox, pastor of North Metro First Baptist Church in Lawrenceville, Ga., for the past 30 years, was honored with the 2012 Willie Turner Dawson Award during the Ministers" Wives Luncheon... Continue Reading »

IMB, NAMB presidents address DOMs’ queries

The Southern Baptist Conference of Associational Directors of Missions held its annual meeting at New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary June 17-18.... Continue Reading »

Evangelists underscore ‘power of God’

Two former presidents and the new president of the Conference of Southern Baptist Evangelists focused on "The Gospel: The Power of God Unto Salvation" during the group"s Sunday morning worship June 17 in New Orleans prior to the Southern... Continue Reading »

FIRST-PERSON: The need of Southern Baptist prayers for the nation

The Prayer Vigil for Spiritual Revival and National Renewal is a great opportunity for Southern Baptist Christians to come together as a unified body and lift up our nation to our Almighty God.... Continue Reading »

Dead Sea Scrolls, Bible history brought to life in seminary exhibit

Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary hopes to change that reality and give more people than ever a chance to see manuscripts that reveal the faithful transmission of the biblical texts over thousands of years through its Dead Sea Scrolls &... Continue Reading »

Why the Dead Sea Scrolls matter

According to Ryan Stokes, assistant professor of Old Testament at Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary in Fort Worth, Texas, the Dead Sea Scrolls affirm the reliability of the Old Testament text, taking scholars much closer to the original autographs of... Continue Reading »

Scrolls’ accidental discovery adds to intrigue

While searching for a stray goat in January 1947, a Bedouin goat herder stumbled upon the discovery of a lifetime.... Continue Reading »

Bedouin tent at SBC inspires Great Commission prayer

The prayer tent, which dominated IMB"s display, was modeled after the desert dwellings of the nomadic Bedouin tribes of North Africa and the Middle East.... Continue Reading »

Sudanese convert from Islam loses wife, kids

Today the convert (Mohammed Khidir Khalil) from Islam is back in Sudan fighting to recover his family after his in-laws compelled his wife to claim she was Muslim and divorce him.... Continue Reading »

Steve Saint begins rehab after accident

Author, missionary and inventor Steve Saint showed slight progress during his first day of rehabilitation Monday (June 25) after an accident nearly two weeks earlier left him partially paralyzed.... Continue Reading »

Native Americans install 1st executive director

The Fellowship of Native American Christians has installed its first executive director, Gary Hawkins.

Hawkins, a church planting associate with the Baptist General Convention of Oklahoma, was called by FoNAC"s executive committee as the group"s executive director.... Continue Reading »