Family Bible Series for May 21: No time like the present to begin serving

Posted: 5/10/06

Family Bible Series for May 21

No time like the present to begin serving

• Acts 16:11-15, 40; Philippians 1:3-11

By Greg Ammons

05/10/2006 - By John Rutledge

Explore the Bible Series for May 21: Prayer and fasting should be followed by action

Posted: 5/10/06

Explore the Bible Series for May 21

Prayer and fasting should be followed by action

• Isaiah 58:1-66:24; Micah 6:6-8

By James Adair

Baptist University of the Americas, San Antonio

05/10/2006 - By John Rutledge

Ronnie Floyd to be nominated for SBC president

Posted: 5/08/06

Ronnie Floyd to be nominated for SBC president

By Greg Warner

Associated Baptist Press

SPRINGDALE, Ark. (ABP)—Ronnie Floyd, pastor of the largest Southern Baptist church in Arkansas, will be nominated as president of the Southern Baptist Convention next month.

05/08/2006 - By John Rutledge

Cybercolumn by Jeanie Miley: Love’s what it’s all about, after all … and before all

Posted: 5/05/06

CYBER COLUMN:
Love’s what it’s all about,
after all … and before all

By Jeanie Miley

My friend was at the end of her rope. Life had closed in on her in such a way that she felt trapped, and the truth is that suddenly, some options that had been available to her were gone.

“There’s nothing out ahead to look forward to,” she told me, “and I don’t know that I can keep on doing this.”

05/05/2006 - By John Rutledge

Darfur peace talks faltering

Posted: 5/04/06

Darfur peace talks faltering

By Robert Marus

ABP Washington Bureau

WASHINGTON (ABP)—Peace talks aimed at ending what the United States government and international human-rights groups have labeled “genocide” in Darfur faltered May 2, just days after thousands of protesters rallied in Washington for beefed-up measures to help the people of the Sudanese region.

05/04/2006 - By John Rutledge

Dobbses ‘excited’ to continue work in Guinea

Posted: 5/04/06

Dobbses 'excited' to continue work in Guinea

By Hannah Elliott

Associated Baptist Press

RICHMOND, Va. (ABP)—Under a new agreement, officials at the Southern Baptist Convention’s International Mission Board have reinstated a missionary couple they threatened to fire for establishing a church in the West African nation of Guinea that did not meet the board’s 10-point criteria for being a Baptist church.

05/04/2006 - By John Rutledge

BaptistWay Bible Series for May 14: Can right motives lead to wrong actions?

Posted: 5/03/06

BaptistWay Bible Series for May 14

Can right motives lead to wrong actions?

• 2 Samuel 7:1-17

By Joseph Matos

05/03/2006 - By John Rutledge

Family Bible Series for May 14: Hannah offers insight into difficult situations

Posted: 5/03/06

Family Bible Series for May 14

Hannah offers insight into difficult situations

• 1 Samuel 1:1-2, 6-7, 10-13, 15-18, 20, 27-28; 2:1-22

By Greg Ammons

05/03/2006 - By John Rutledge

Explore the Bible Series for May 14: Everyone needs hope, encouragement

Posted: 5/03/06

Explore the Bible Series for May 14

Everyone needs hope, encouragement

• Isaiah 54:1-57:21

By James Adair

Baptist University of the Americas, San Antonio

The chapters in Isaiah under consideration this week are set in the late exilic and early postexilic period, during the last half of the sixth century B.C. It was a time of great excitement and great disappointment, a period of high hopes and harsh realities. The Jews in exile heard a message of deliverance, but the situation in the land of their ancestors was not quite what they had expected.

05/03/2006 - By John Rutledge

Homegrown churches make gospel readily accessible

Posted: 4/28/06

Homegrown churches make
gospel readily accessible

By John Hall

Texas Baptist Communications

SAN ANTONIO—Steeple-crested church buildings dot San Antonio’s west side, but Pastor Manuel Rodriguez isn’t concerned about them. He’s focused on structures that aren’t adorned with crosses.

05/02/2006 - By John Rutledge

CHURCH WITHOUT WALLS: Authentic worship outside

Posted: 4/28/06

CHURCH WITHOUT WALLS:
Authentic worship outside

By George Henson

Staff Writer

AMARILLO—Sometimes church-starting dreams bog down in the details of where the church can meet and how to pay for that space.

05/02/2006 - By John Rutledge

Sam Currin indicted fin tax fraud case

Posted: 5/02/06

Sam Currin indicted in tax fraud case

By Robert Marus

Associated Baptist Press

CHARLOTTE, N.C. (ABP)—One of the men instrumental in the Southern Baptist Convention’s 1990 move to defund its historic public-affairs agency faces federal charges.

05/02/2006 - By John Rutledge