2003 Archives
-
-
sbc_pastorsconf_62303
Posted 6/18/03
Family first priority at
SBC Pastors' ConferenceBy Stella Prather, Jennifer Rash & Stacy Hamby
PHOENIX–“Kingdom families” captured the spotlight of the 2003 Southern Baptist Pastors' Conference, even as participants heard a new version of the Monday Night Football song from evangelist Hank Williams.
Headlining the two-day meeting was the first-ever Southern Baptist Convention Kingdom Family Rally held during the closing session June 16. The Pastors' Conference met June 15-16 in Phoenix, immediately prior to the SBC annual meeting.
Ergun Caner, an assistant professor at Criswell College, Dallas, speaks during the second session of the Southern Baptist Pastors' Conference June 15-16 in the Phoenix Civic Center prior to the SBC annual meeting, June 17-18. Caner will begin teaching at Lynchburg's Liberty University in the fall. Leading up to the Monday evening rally, Pastors' Conference speakers focused their sermons around the family theme. Music was provided by the Annie Moses Band, Wintley Phipps and the Rick Webb Trio. Choirs from First Baptist Church of Dallas also performed.
06/18/2003 - By John Rutledge
-
sbc_vines_62303
Posted 6/18/03
Vines tells Pastors' Conference
'All religions not the same'Jerry Vines, pastor of First Baptist Church, Jacksonville, Fla., speaks during the opening session of the Southern Baptist Pastors' Conference June 15-16 in the Phoenix Civic Center prior to the SBC annual meeting, June 17-18. PHOENIX–Just in case America didn't hear him the first time, Jerry Vines made a point of speaking clearly at this year's Southern Baptist Pastor's Conference: “All religions are not the same. All religions are not equally true.”
Vines, pastor of First Baptist Church of Jacksonville, Fla., and a former president of the Southern Baptist Convention, drew the ire of Muslims and others when at last year's Pastors' Conference he called the founder of Islam a “demon-possessed pedophile” as he marched toward declaring that Christianity is superior to Islam.
That led to a later segment aired on the “NBC Nightly News” in which anchor Tom Brokaw described Vines as “preaching hate.”
06/18/2003 - By John Rutledge
-
-
-
-
water_project_62303
Posted: 6/13/03
Cooperation brings water
flowing to Macedonian villageDALLAS–A small village in northeastern Macedonia has water flowing again thanks to a collaborative effort between the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship and Partnership for the Environment.
Earlier this year, CBF missions workers Darrell and Kathy Smith worked with Terri Morgan of the Texas-based Partnership for the Environment to complete a project that restored the supply of fresh water to the village of Turija, 20 miles west of the Bulgarian border. More than 30 years ago, artesian springs supplied fresh water to the community, but when the lines deteriorated and the distribution equipment failed, the village was left without drinking water.
Volunteers from Cooperative Baptist Fellowship and the Texas-based Partnership for the Environment helped bring water to a Macedonian village whose springs had dried up. “The need for potable water in communities across Eastern Europe is severe,” said Morgan, president of the environmental ministry and a former staff member with the Texas Baptist Christian Life Commission. Morgan left the CLC to form the independent environmental ministry.
06/13/2003 - By John Rutledge
-
letters_60903
Posted: 6/06/03
TEXAS BAPTIST FORUM:
God's chosen peopleI have read with interest your editorial regarding the Middle East peace process and your remarks about Christians getting in the way of the peace process (June 2).
As a completed Jew, I take great exception as to your characterization that perhaps the Jews are not God's chosen people. As one who believes the Bible is inerrant, the fact that God's word states the Jews are his chosen people is enough to satisfy me.
E-mail the editor at marvknox@baptiststandard.com The bloodshed is not caused by the Jews, rather the Arabs. Their whole bent has and always will be to see to the final and ultimate destruction of Israel and the Jews. We have heard this from many Arab leaders, including Yasser Arafat. You are naive if you believe that any so-called peace will eliminate or even reduce the bloodshed we are seeing. Incidentally, can you name a single instance whereby we have seen “terrorist” attacks on the Arabs by the Jews?
06/12/2003 - By John Rutledge
