BaptistWay Bible Series for July 16: Invest yourself in the spiritual life of another

Posted: 7/06/06

BaptistWay Bible Series for July 16

Invest yourself in the spiritual life of another

• 2 Timothy 1:1-14

By Joseph Matos

07/06/2006 - By John Rutledge

Family Bible Series for July 16: God guides believers with strength

Posted: 7/06/06

Family Bible Series for July 16

God guides believers with strength

• Exodus 13:17-18, 20-22; 14:5-6, 10, 13-14, 31; 15:1-2, 11-13

By Greg Ammons

07/06/2006 - By John Rutledge

Explore the Bible Series for July 16: Beware of speaking rashly for God

Posted: 7/06/06

Explore the Bible Series for July 16

Beware of speaking rashly for God

• Job 38:1-42:17

By James Adair

Baptist University of the Americas, San Antonio

Job has suffered incredible loss, indescribable pain and extraordinary sorrow. His three friends have added insult to injury, and the interloper Elihu has added his opinion. Job has expressed his outrage and called for justice.

07/06/2006 - By John Rutledge

Cybercolumn by Jeanie Miley: ‘Living the rightness’

Posted: 7/03/06

CYBER COLUMN:
'Living the rightness'

By Jeanie Miley

“I don’t have to prove myself right,” the movie character told his movie son. “I just have to prove them wrong.”

Those words flew off the screen and into my head, and I’ve been pondering them ever since. I was stunned by them and shaken by the awareness of how many times I’ve seen that very principle at work.

07/03/2006 - By John Rutledge

BaptistWay Bible Series for July 9: Investigate your heart’s desire

Posted: 6/28/06

BaptistWay Bible Series for July 9

Investigate your heart’s desire

• 1 Timothy 6:2-16

By Joseph Matos

06/28/2006 - By John Rutledge

Family Bible Series for July 9: God can be trusted to help in times of struggle

Posted: 6/28/06

Family Bible Series for July 9

God can be trusted to help in times of struggle

• Exodus 3:4-8, 19-21; 4:10-12, 27-31

By Greg Ammons

06/28/2006 - By John Rutledge

Explore the Bible Series for July 9: Elihu seeks to set things straight concerning Job

Posted: 6/28/06

Explore the Bible Series for July 9

Elihu seeks to set things straight concerning Job

• Job 32:1-37:24

By James Adair

Baptist University of the Americas, San Antonio

In the 1960s TV show Bewitched, nosy neighbor Gladys Kravitz regularly snooped on the strange goings-on at the house of Darrin and Samantha Stephens. Although warned by her husband not to stick her nose where it didn’t belong, she did so anyway, often with comic or even disastrous results.

06/28/2006 - By John Rutledge

Lotz: Be more like the early church

Posted: 6/27/06

Lotz: Be more like the early church

By Tony Cartledge

N.C. Biblical Recorder

ATLANTA (ABP)—Western Baptists need to leave Christendom behind and become more like the early church, Baptist World Alliance General Secretary Denton Lotz told a BWA dinner held in conjunction with the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship general assembly.

Many Westerners still hold a “Christendom-based” model of thinking—characterized by the dominant cultural role played by the Christian church in Western history, particularly in Europe, where national churches were granted privileged status, he said.

06/27/2006 - By John Rutledge

CBF broke tradition in commissioning service

Posted: 6/27/06

CBF broke tradition in commissioning service

By Robert Marus

Associated Baptist Press

ATLANTA (ABP)—The Cooperative Baptist Fellowship broke tradition during its annual general assembly in Atlanta by commissioning only short-term and self-funded mission workers, rather than any fully funded career missionaries.

The group commissioned 19 new affiliated workers during the service, which has become a tradition on the last night of the Fellowship’s annual meeting. Of those, six were funded for one-to-three-year posts under the aegis of the group’s Global Service Corps.

06/27/2006 - By John Rutledge

CBF, emergent church good fit, Myers says

Posted: 6/27/06

CBF, emergent church good fit, Myers says

By Tony Cartledge

N.C. Biblical Recorder

ATLANTA (ABP)—Atlanta church planter Jake Myers used the images of beer, candles and theologian Soren Kierkegaard to describe the “emergent conversation” taking place within Christianity, which he said could be a good fit for members of the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship.

Myers, who leads an emergent community in the Little Five Points area of Atlanta, led a breakout session during the CBF general assembly. He also serves on staff at Wieuca Road Baptist Church in Atlanta as a church planter and mission leader.

06/27/2006 - By John Rutledge

Hudson: Step out of bubble and hear God

Posted: 6/27/06

Hudson: Step out of bubble and hear God

By Hannah Elliott

Associated Baptist Press

ATLANTA (ABP)—A Methodist from South Africa told a group of Baptists in the American South that they need to wake up to reality and challenged them to “step outside your own little bubble” in order to hear God’s call.

When Trevor Hudson spoke at the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship’s general assembly in Atlanta, his speech—which complemented the session theme, “For the healing of the nations, Jesus wept”—was received with thunderous applause.

06/27/2006 - By John Rutledge

TROUBLED WATERS: Are Baptists watering down commitment to baptism?

Posted: 6/23/06

TROUBLED WATERS:
Are Baptists watering down commitment to baptism?

By Ken Camp

Managing Editor

Disputes about baptism are troubling the waters in some Baptist circles. From Southern Baptist International Mission Board guidelines that narrow the parameters for acceptable baptism when it comes to missionary candidates, to churches that wrestle with the perennial question of how to handle new members from other denominations, questions swirl around an issue most Baptists considered settled more than 350 years ago—believer’s baptism by immersion.

“Believer’s baptism has long been a distinctive mark of Baptists,” Baylor University religion Professor Bill Brackney wrote in a paper published by the Baptist History & Heritage Society and the Whitsitt Baptist Heritage Society. “All Baptists, to one degree or another, recognize the importance of a believers’ church and the signal rite or ordinance of baptism.”

06/26/2006 - By John Rutledge