Clinton Wolf

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (BP)–Administrators of Midwestern Baptist Theological Seminary, recently returned from North Africa and the Middle East, set before students the vision to reach persecutors of the Christian faith during a special chapel service. Donning Arabic and Islamic garb for their reflections were Mark Coppenger, Midwestern’s president, Gary Ledbetter, vice president for student development, […]

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (BP)–Students at Midwestern Baptist Theological Seminary recently were reminded to serve in light of the accounting they will one day give before God. In a Sept. 16 chapel service, John Greever, senior pastor of First Baptist Church of Fenton, Mo., called ministers to be faithful stewards of the gospel message. “I am […]

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (BP)–“The reason we plant churches is because of the people who are yet to come,” David Putman, a church-planting leader with Southern Baptists’ North American Mission Board, said Sept. 8 at Midwestern Baptist Theological Seminary. Putman, a Midwestern graduate, was at the Kansas City, Mo., campus to promote a church-planting partnership between […]

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (BP)–Ministry should be typified by love for Christ, the presence of the Holy Spirit and a sanctified determination which avoids “slop-bucket” Christianity, D.L. Lowrie said. Lowrie’s observations came during Midwestern Baptist Theological Seminary’s annual week of preaching, Sept. 1-5 on the Kansas City, Mo., campus. Lowrie, who spoke for an hour each […]

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (BP)–Both old and new faces were on hand for the beginning of the academic year at Midwestern Baptist Theological Seminary. An Aug. 27 academic convocation at the Kansas City, Mo., seminary featured the recently completed doctoral research of Alan Tomlinson, who joined Midwestern in 1995 and who in the spring of 1997 […]

Revised 11:17 a.m. Jan. 9, 2007. KANSAS CITY, Mo. (BP)–An early marriage, a postponed calling and an uphill struggle form the backdrop for the appointment of Joseph and Mary Matthews* as Southern Baptist missionaries to Mendoza, Argentina. Looking back, the Matthewses marvel at how God sustained a call to missions in a marriage some would […]

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (BP)–Like the Israelites of Jeremiah’s day, American churchgoers are typified by a worship that leaves them unchanged, according to Oklahoma Baptist leader Anthony Jordan. Turning to Jeremiah 7:1-11, Jordan called believers to leave behind worship which is deceptively comforting, yet devoid of life-changing value. “Jeremiah was dealing with a people who were […]

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (BP)–“There is a great harvest to be taken in the state called the Prairie State,” according to Illinois Baptist leader Bob Wiley. Wiley, executive director of the state convention, came to this conclusion after a recent tour of northern Illinois and Chicago. Noting in Matthew 9:35 Jesus traveled throughout the cities and […]

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (BP)–Truth is “a great conundrum” in contemporary culture: “We neither value it, nor sustain it, nor would we know quite where to find it if we believed it was something of value.” How, then, Stan Gaede asked, are Christians to live in world that has forgotten how to find truth? Gaede, provost […]

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (BP)–As Nehemiah led the exiles who had returned to Jerusalem, so must Southern Baptist ministers lead their people to rebuild the walls of the Great Commission, said Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary President Ken Hemphill. “The exiles had returned, the temple had been rebuilt under Ezra, but the wall lay in ruins,” Hemphill […]