News Articles by Amanda Phifer

MILL VALLEY, Calif. (BP)–Fred Campbell voiced concern over “a drift toward an embracement of ‘a’ gospel, over and against ‘the’ Gospel.” “We focus too much on what Jesus minored in, rather than what He majored in,” Campbell, pastor of Mt. Zion Baptist Church in Redwood City, Calif., said at a Golden Gate Baptist Theological Seminary […]

MILL VALLEY, Calif. (BP)–The president of the Alabama Baptist Convention, in visiting California’s Golden Gate Baptist Theological Seminary, noted in a chapel message that “service to God is never a substitute for knowing God.” Roger Willmore, pastor of Deerfoot Baptist Church in Trussville, Ala., urged the seminarians to “keep your focus on God” and a […]

MILL VALLEY, Calif. (BP)--Jeff Iorg, at Golden Gate Baptist Theological Seminary's president's convocation, launched a year-long series on becoming "Kingdom-focused leaders."

MILL VALLEY, Calif. (BP)–Usually, when two people in a seminary class share the same last name, it’s either a case of coincidence or marriage. But not for David and Sarah Auda, a father and daughter tandem at Golden Gate Baptist Theological Seminary. “It was especially fun at the beginning of the semester when the professor […]

MILL VALLEY, Calif. (BP)–More than 200 students from nearly a dozen countries received degrees from Golden Gate Baptist Theological Seminary’s five regional campuses during spring commencement ceremonies. The seminary’s graduates at the Rocky Mountain campus (Denver) were honored May 12; Southern California campus (Brea, Calif.), May 18; Pacific Northwest campus (Vancouver, Wash.), May 19; Northern […]

MILL VALLEY, Calif. (BP)–This year’s 50th anniversary of Korean Southern Baptist work in the United States holds special significance to Golden Gate Baptist Theological Seminary: Every Korean Southern Baptist church in the San Francisco Bay Area has or has had a Golden Gate graduate as a pastor. The seminary’s Founders Day 2007 chapel thus was […]

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. (BP)–One hundred years ago, American missionaries took the Gospel to South Korea. Today, there are more than 17,000 Korean missionaries taking the Gospel throughout the world. Southern Baptist Koreans want to do their part. Hence the Acts 1:8 Missions Celebration at New Community Baptist Church in Mountain View, Calif., jointly sponsored with […]

MILL VALLEY, Calif. (BP)–Voddie Baucham, a Christian apologist, told students at Golden Gate Baptist Theological Seminary that his goal “is not to make Christianity cool but to communicate it clearly.” During a two-part lecture March 21-22, Baucham taught students to communicate the Gospel clearly through expositional preaching based on 2 Timothy 4:1-5. Such preaching, he […]

MILL VALLEY, Calif. (BP)–Dan Boling, retired professor of Christian education at Golden Gate Baptist Theological Seminary, died of cancer March 22 at his home in Petaluma, Calif. He was 71. Boling served on Golden Gate’s faculty from 1974 until 2001. The Elaine Southerland-Boling Christian Education Fund, which provides for a Christian education lecture series every […]

MILL VALLEY, Calif. (BP)–If leaders will stand up and slay the Goliaths of their day, like the biblical David, those in churches also will become giant-killers, Southern Baptist Convention President Frank Page told students at Golden Gate Baptist Theological Seminary. “We live in a day when fear has become the predominant perspective,” Page, pastor of […]