MEMPHIS -- Steve Gaines, longtime pastor of Bellevue Baptist Church in Memphis and a former president of the Southern Baptist Convention, died March 20 after a long battle with cancer. He was 69.
Why must we suffer? The suffering Messiah was a scandal to the early Church. That is not the kind of Lord the Church wanted, and it did not like to have the law of suffering imposed upon it by its Lord.
Joy Church aims to reach the estimated 90 percent of Chinese people in the Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex who do not know Jesus. Submitted photo
PLANO, Texas – When Jack Tai was a pastor in China, he thought the U.S. had so many Christian churches that surely most Chinese immigrants would be reached with the Gospel.
Former pastor and former SBC president Steve Gaines passed away March 20 following a battle with cancer. Bellevue Baptist photo
MEMPHIS -- Steve Gaines, longtime pastor of Bellevue Baptist Church in Memphis and a former president of the Southern Baptist Convention, died March 20 after a long battle with cancer. He was 69.
DENVER (BP) – “The First Hymn,” showcasing Chris Tomlin’s and Ben Fielding’s contemporary rendering of the oldest known Christian hymn enjoys a wide release in U.S. theaters March 24 and 26.
NASHVILLE (BP) – When Steven Curtis and Mary Beth Chapman got married 40-plus years ago, they knew they were opposites in many ways. After all, that was what had attracted them to each other in the first place. “You fall in love with something you are not,” Mary Beth says.
Joy Church aims to reach the estimated 90 percent of Chinese people in the Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex who do not know Jesus. Submitted photo
PLANO, Texas – When Jack Tai was a pastor in China, he thought the U.S. had so many Christian churches that surely most Chinese immigrants would be reached with the Gospel.
