Courageous Faith for Looming Persecution
Christians should be "dangerous for the Lord Jesus Christ" in an age when people are increasingly hostile to the gospel, Southern Baptist Convention President Jack Graham said March 6 at Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary. "What is needed today is courageous Christian faith," Graham told a chapel audience at the Fort Worth, Texas, campus. "… As […]
Prof from former Soviet bloc: ‘no gray area’ in serving Christ
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| John Moldovan |
John Moldovan -- Southwestern's first faculty member from the former Soviet bloc -- once languished in a Romanian prison cell fearful of what might happen to him and his family. Communist police officers, he said, tortured his body, mind and soul, and he eventually collapsed from the pressure.
Marketplace Ministries’ weekly reach: Christ’s compassion in 900 work sites
DALLAS (BP)--When Marketplace Ministries was founded in December 1983, a 1973 Datsun functioned as the organization's headquarters. The budget for the ministry was $25. Gil Stricklin was the ministry's founder, administrator, accountant and public relations coordinator.
Son of slain missionary exhorts seminarians to work in ‘hard places’
FORT WORTH, Texas (BP)--Bill Hyde had a vision for establishing 3,000 churches on the Philippine island of Mindanao, the son of the slain IMB worker said during chapel at Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary in Fort Worth, Texas, April 1.
Jack Graham: Courageous faith needed for looming persecution
FORT WORTH, Texas (BP)--Christians should be "dangerous for the Lord Jesus Christ" in an age when people are increasingly hostile to the gospel, Southern Baptist Convention President Jack Graham said March 6 at Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary.
Pastor & family head to track for dirt-bike racing & ministry
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| Ministry in the Extreme Randall Easter "gets air" as he practices for an upcoming Motocross competition. "I ride because I like to ride," the pastor says, "but we're able to do ministry while we're there." Photo by Richard McCormack |
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| Pastor-racer Randall Easter, center, a pastor and dirt-bike racer, assists a paramedic treating a 14-year-old boy who fell and then was run over by two competitors.Photo by Richard McCormack |
"I ride because I like to ride, but we're able to do ministry while we're there," said Easter, a graduate of Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary in Fort Worth.
Russian sacred music score slated for U.S. debut by Southwesterners
FORT WORTH, Texas (BP)--The American premiere of Alexander Gretchaninov's "Kvalite Boga" ("Praise the Lord") will highlight the 2003 Church Music Workshop Feb. 17-21 at Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary.
Russian Baptist president describes evangelistic challenges, opportunities
FORT WORTH, Texas (BP)--Russian Baptist Union President Yuri Sipko witnessed a great desire for the truth of the gospel in his country after the fall of communism, but he told students at Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary that "doors which were being opened ... now we see how they are closing."
Lebanon’s civil war shaped her studies in counseling
FORT WORTH, Texas (BP)--Smyrna Khalaf was 5,620 miles away from New York when she heard the shocking news of Sept. 11, 2001. But as she sat watching the news on television, memories of war in her own country of Lebanon were vivid in her mind.
Former drug addicts, 68 & 28, find common bond for ministry
FORT WORTH, Texas (BP)--Philip Barber was determined; if he was going to be a drug addict for the rest of his life, he would be the best drug addict possible. But the compassion of a stranger and the understanding of a new friend forever changed the course of his life.
Barber's experimentation with drugs began at age 12 when he smoked marijuana for the first time. Years later he was so desperate for cocaine that one evening he stopped his car in the rain and filled a syringe with water from a puddle in order to inject the drug into his system.
