Reject sexual immorality, seminary president exhorts
WAKE FOREST, N.C. (BP)--In a call back to Christian ethics and away from popular culture's rampant sexual immorality, Daniel Akin urged students at Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary to use their bodies in a manner that rightly attributes "maximum praise and glory to Jesus Christ."
Akin exhorts SEBTS grads to make ‘good, godly decisions’
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| Jack Blankenship praying Southeastern Seminary graduate Jack Blankenship of Billingsley, Ala., prays during the school's graduation Dec. 18. Photo by Courtney Navey. |
Seminary President Daniel L. Akin presided over his second graduation ceremony, delivering a charge to students to walk faithfully during their ministry. Akin said that in life, graduates will face choices that will dictate the direction of their ministry, their walk with the Lord and their life.
“Graduation brings you to a very significant fork in the road,” Akin said. “Now what? What is God’s next step in His plan for your life?
Church’s ministry brightens Christmas for seminary families
WAKE FOREST, N.C. (BP)--What was once the dream of a few members of Bay Leaf Baptist Church in Raleigh, N.C., has now become a full-scale Christmas “miracle” for many students of Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary and their families.
Profs receive Yale award for family nurture course
WAKE FOREST, N.C. (BP)--Two Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary professors, David Nelson and Bruce Ashford, have received one of four $5,000 awards from Yale Divinity School for a course they designed to help pastors equip families to live wisely in God’s world.
Daniel Akin inaugurated at Southeastern Seminary
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| A packed house More than a thousand students, faculty and guests filled Binkley Chapel for Daniel Akin’s inauguration as Southeastern Seminary president. Photo by Courtney Navey |
More than a thousand people packed Binkley Chapel, in the center of the Southeastern’s Wake Forest, N.C., campus, to witness the inauguration of only the sixth president in the seminary’s 53-year history.
Believers ‘cannot continue in silence,’ Rainer declares
WAKE FOREST, N.C. (BP)--Follow the example of Peter and John -- apostles who would not stop talking about Jesus, Thom Rainer exhorted in a message at Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary in Wake Forest, N.C.
iVoteValues.com rig underscores ‘moral obligation’
WAKE FOREST, N.C. (BP)--Although evangelicals are one of the most outspoken groups in the United States when it comes to moral issues, research indicates it’s not readily evident at the voting booth because, in large part, they are not there.
Southeastern suspends classes for ministry conference
WAKE FOREST, N.C. (BP)--In a one-day leadership conference on pastoral ministry at Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary, Johnny Hunt challenged more than 1,000 students to be committed, passionate and pure pastors to shepherd the flock of God.
Gospel of reconciliation is what lost world needs, Akin says
WAKE FOREST, N.C. (BP)--In a convocation message to a Binkley Chapel audience that included a record number of new students, Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary President Daniel Akin reminded listeners that a war-torn, violence-saturated world needs a peace that can only be found in the reconciling work of Jesus Christ.
Freak motorcycle accident stirs pastor to see joy in trusting God
WAKE FOREST, N.C. (BP)--Most things in Steve McKinion’s life have been more of a triumph than a trial -- a blossoming ministry as pastor of a new church, a successful teaching and writing career and a loving, supportive family.
