2008 Archives
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Explore the Bible Series for February 3: Do you care about others?
Posted:1/25/08
Explore the Bible Series for February 3
Do you care about others?
• Genesis 18:20-26, 19:12-16
First Baptist Church, Petersburg
In his work titled The Apology, the early church leader Tertullian sought to defend the beliefs and practices of the young church to the rulers of the Roman Empire. According to Tertullian, one of the most often expressed comments about the church by those outside the church was, “Look at how much they love each other.”
01/25/2008 - By John Rutledge
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Buckner explores needs in Mexico
Posted: 1/25/08
A girl at a Zapoteco village in a Oaxaca mountain makes corn tortillas by hand. The people in this community live in one-bedroom aluminum homes with dirt floors. (Photos by Russ Dilday/Buckner) Buckner explores needs in Mexico
By Analiz González
Buckner International
MEXICO CITY—Observers of Mexico say it’s hard to speak of the country in absolute terms. Its needs are as varied as the multiple versions of “Mexican food” people eat in the United States.
Mexico has hundreds of people-groups with dozens of languages, lifestyles and dialects. In the cities, adults often crowd into forsaken rooms in overpopulated barrios.
Dexton Shores, director of ministry development in Mexico and the Border, speaks with a child in Oaxaca. Shores is identifying needs in Mexico for future church missions and ministry opportunities. 01/25/2008 - By John Rutledge
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Christian voters broadening political agenda, evangelical panelists say
Posted: 1/25/08
Richard Cizik, vice president of governmental affairs for the National Association of Evangelicals. Christian voters broadening political
agenda, evangelical panelists sayBy Robert Marus
Associated Baptist Press
WASHINGTON (ABP)—The Washington auditorium that once hosted a news program famous for back-and-forth arguments between political opponents instead recently featured a very different dialogue—a group of evangelical Christians denouncing the religious and political polarization of the last two presidential campaign cycles.
Panel participants, who ranged from former supporters of President Bush to some of his most vehement Christian critics, addressed the question, “Choosing a president: What do evangelicals really want?”
Jim Wallis, founder of Sojourners/Call to Renewal 01/25/2008 - By John Rutledge
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Friends of Jesus share good news with their parents
Posted: 1/25/08
Children gather outside the Martínez home to worship after Bible class. (Photos by Russ Dilday/Buckner) Friends of Jesus share good
news with their parentsBy Analiz González
Buckner International
OAXACA, Mexico — In southern Mexico, a group of recent Christian converts meets in a colonia in Oaxaca. And all the new believers are under age 15.
They study the Bible. They worship on the street Fridays and fearlessly invite others to learn about God. They know God changed their lives, and they share their faith with their parents.
Sergio, 9, sits and talks with Marco Antonio Martínez after an Amigos de Jesus meeting. Sergio is an orphan who has bonded with the Martínez family. 01/25/2008 - By John Rutledge
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Huckabeeâs role in SBC conflict presaged political balancing act
Posted: 1/21/08
Huckabee’s role in SBC conflict
presaged political balancing actBy Robert Marus
Associated Baptist Press
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (ABP)—Mike Huckabee’s role in the holy war that divided the Southern Baptist Convention was as delicate a balancing act as the one he’s attempting now in his presidential campaign, balancing grassroots populism and right-wing conservatism.
Moreover, Huckabee’s nuanced role in denominational politics may have something to do with why the former Arkansas governor, despite earning a grassroots following among conservative evangelicals in early primaries, has failed to garner clear support from the Religious Right’s powerbrokers.
Mike Huckabee, shown as a young pastor and as governor of Arkansas speaking to Baptist newspaper editors in 1998. (Right photo by Jim Veneman) 01/21/2008 - By John Rutledge
