Fox News highlights Baptist student relief efforts
NEW YORK (BP) -- Southern Baptist college students from Missouri were featured on the Dec. 21 edition of Fox & Friends, Fox News' morning program, for the work they are doing in New York City to help survivors of Hurricane Sandy.
Children of prisoners receive Christmas gifts
OWENSBORO, Ky. (BP) -- Leslie Rice barely digested her Thanksgiving turkey before shifting into high gear to coordinate the Daviess-McLean Baptist Association's Jail Ministry Christmas Mission Project.
FIRST-PERSON: Let Earth receive her King!
Columnist and pastor David Jeremiah notes the irony in the way a head of state is received in the United States compared to the way Jesus entered the world.
BIBLE STUDIES: Sunday, Dec. 23 & 30, 2012
NASHVILLE (BP) — This weekly Bible study appears in Baptist Press in a partnership with LifeWay Christian Resources of the Southern Baptist Convention. Through its Leadership and Adult Publishing team, LifeWay publishes Sunday School curriculum and additional resources for all age groups. These Bible studies for Dec. 23 and 30 are adapted, respectively, from the […]
Church reaches out to trailer park riddled with gangs, drugs, poverty
HUEYTOWN, Ala. -- Mike Gordon drove around the mobile home park for a year before he ever took one step out of his big red truck.
‘VBS at Christmas’ tells of Jesus’ purpose
HAMMOND, La. (BP) — The room was completely dark until, one by one, a small group of elementary age children shook their chemical light sticks. Squeals of laughter erupted as the room, now illuminated by swirling colors of green, yellow, red and blue, revealed happy faces. The exercise was one of several to illustrate the […]
Post-game trash collection fuels BSU missions
OXFORD, Miss (BP) — Students at the University of Mississippi’s Baptist Student Union have traded trash for cash to raise money for summer missions. The Grove, Ole Miss’ 10-acre site for tailgaters at the center of the Oxford campus, is always covered with plastic plates, fried chicken, leftover cookies and everything in between after a […]
WEEK OF PRAYER: ‘God loved you enough to come,’ 20-something worker tells Muslim friends
RICHMOND, Va. (BP) -- At 4:45 a.m., the Muslim call to prayer wakes Marie Edwards*. In the cooler hours before the scorching heat arrives, the 20-something Christian worker spends her own time in prayer and worship.
FIRST-PERSON: Looking for a fix
Seminary professor Mark Coppenger takes stock of the idea that the country can fix the problem of schoolhouse shootings and other forms of gun violence.
FIRST-PERSON: How the world will end
Columnist Rob Phillips gives seven biblical truths to explain why believers should not fear the world will end Dec. 21 as the Mayan calendar indicates.
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