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TRUSTEES: Golden Gate Seminary marks Rocky Mtn. Campus’ 15 years

Trustees of Golden Gate Baptist Theological Seminary celebrated the 15th anniversary of the Rocky Mountain Campus during the board"s Oct. 10-11 meeting in Centennial, Colo.... Continue Reading »

Hawkins: Gospel is ‘counter-cultural’

“I don’t need to tell you that the Gospel is cross-cultural,” O.S. Hawkins said to students, faculty and staff at Golden Gate Baptist Theological Seminary, “because you work and live in a part of the country that contains a... Continue Reading »

FIRST-PERSON: When you’re no longer ‘in love’ with God

Our relationship with God is similar to a marriage or dating relationship.... Continue Reading »

FIRST-PERSON: There is no gay ‘marriage’ groundswell

In celebration of October"s National Coming Out Day, mass same-sex "weddings" were held on the steps of the Texas capitol in Austin and at Founders" Plaza in downtown Dallas.... Continue Reading »

NAMB commissions 67 new missionaries

Bryant Wright, Southern Baptist Convention president, and Larry Wynn, NAMB vice president for evangelism, charged the 67 new missionaries and others gathered at the church to be obedient to God"s call.... Continue Reading »

WEEK OF PRAYER: Gypsies in Macedonia find roots in Christ

Roma gypsies -- about 200,000 strong in Macedonia -- tend to be a castoff people in every European country they alight in.... Continue Reading »

Gypsies becoming ‘more open’ to Gospel

EDITOR’S NOTE: This year’s Week of Prayer for International Missions in the Southern Baptist Convention will be Dec. 4-11 with the theme of “His heart, His hands, His voice — I am Southern Baptist missions” from Acts 1:8. Each... Continue Reading »

Missionary answered the call at age 70

Smock, one of the oldest International Mission Board missionaries at age 78, was born to a Macedonian couple living in the United States.... Continue Reading »

FIRST-PERSON: Yes, son, we are rich

Money and wealth are not the same.... Continue Reading »

FIRST-PERSON: Is Mormonism Christian?

Dr. Robert Jeffress of First Baptist Church of Dallas touched a very sensitive nerve when he referred to the Mormon church and faith as a cult. People have raised the issue and the... Continue Reading »

SHEA: Will the Senate quietly kill USCIRF?

Religious persecution around the world threatens many minority groups -- Egyptian Copts, Pakistani Ahmadiyas, Saudi Ismaili Shiites, Baha"is in Iran, and Chinese Sunni Uighurs, Catholics, and Tibetan Buddhists.... Continue Reading »

Church gives $175,000 to disaster relief

As a result of a sermon and personal appeal by David Self, executive pastor at Houston"s First Baptist Church, $175,000 has been contributed by the church"s members to the North American Mission Board"s (NAMB) disaster relief effort.... Continue Reading »