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  Vestal focuses on God in final sermon as CBF leader

  There were plenty of big developments for Daniel Vestal to address in his final sermon at the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship general assembly, including approval of the 2012 Task Force report, a distinctive CBF identity for congregations that desire it and a $12.4 million budget.

  06/25/2012 - By Administrator

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  CBF commissions new field personnel, church starters

  The Cooperative Baptist Fellowship commissioned eight field personnel and church starters at the group's annual general assembly. And in a challenge to the CBF, Phil Christopher, pastor of First Baptist Church in Abilene, talked about his church's $5 million capital campaign for missions, which began in 2010.

  06/25/2012 - By Administrator

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  ABP honors Toby Druin for lifetime work

  Associated Baptist Press presented its Greg Warner Lifetime Achievement Award in Religious Journalism to Toby Druin, editor emeritus of the Baptist Standard, who chronicled a historic and controversial era in Southern Baptist life.

  06/25/2012 - By Administrator

• Organizations join CLC in fight to regulate payday lenders

  The push to regulate auto title and payday lenders gained steam recently as more than three dozen organizations representing consumers, financial institutions, low-income communities and the elderly joined the cross-denominational Texas Faith for Fair Lending in efforts to push for new state laws to protect borrowers from interest rates and fees.

  06/25/2012 - By Administrator

• Arab seminary needs new water well

  Arab Baptist Theological Seminary in Lebanon urgently needs a new water well after its old one broke in March, forcing the school to incur significant expenses buying water for daily use.

  06/25/2012 - By Administrator

• 19 motions presented at New Orleans SBC

  Messengers offered 19 motions during the opening day of the Southern Baptist Convention's annual meeting in New Orleans June 1. All but one were referred to SBC entities or ruled out of order.

  06/23/2012 - By Administrator

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  Next CBF leader must keep focus on missions, Texas Baptists counsel

  To retain the support of Baptists west of the Mississippi River, the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship must focus on missions, not become distracted by divisive hot-button issues such as gay rights, some Texas Baptist pastors attending the CBF general assembly noted. And they see the selection of the organization’s next executive staff leader as pivotal.

  06/23/2012 - By Administrator

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  CBF enters year of transition

  The Cooperative Baptist Fellowship looks forward to an “in-between year” characterized by implementation of a new identity statement and a search for a successor to retiring CBF Executive Coordinator Daniel Vestal, the group’s incoming moderator said.

  06/23/2012 - By Administrator

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  Millennials losing their religion, walk away from church

  Studies show young adults are leaving the church in record numbers. The reasons they leave are complicated, and experts wonder how many of them are ever coming back.

  06/22/2012 - By Administrator

• SBC resolutions address sinner’s prayer, gay marriage

  Messengers to the Southern Baptist Convention approved resolutions reaffirming their convictions regarding the means of salvation and a literal Adam and Eve, while stating their opposition to rhetoric that equates gay rights with the civil rights of racial and ethnic minorities.

  06/22/2012 - By Administrator

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  Young snake handlers grasp the dangerous power of faith

  Andrew Hamblin, 21, pastor of Tabernacle Church of God in LaFollette, Tenn., is part of a new generation of serpent-handling Christians who are revitalizing a century-old faith tradition in Tennessee.

   

  06/22/2012 - By Administrator

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  Singer discovers redemption, restoration in Christ

  As Heather Williams shares about the redemption and restoration she found in a relationship with Christ, she displays character and strength far beyond her years.

  06/22/2012 - By Administrator