SBC Life Articles by Norm Miller

PIGEON FORGE, Tenn. (BP)--Chuck McAlister is a hunter. From his boyhood days of stalking small game to hosting the "AdventureBound Outdoors" cable TV show, the former Southern Baptist pastor today pursues creative ways to tell others about Jesus.

MEMPHIS, Tenn. (BP)--Among all the attributes of the Bible celebrated by Southern Baptists and other evangelicals, the attributes of waterproof and durable can be added to that list.

GRAPEVINE, Texas (BP)–Lamar E. Cooper is the interim president, as well as executive vice president, provost and professor of Hebrew and Old Testament, at Criswell College in Dallas. He is also a premillennial dispensationalist, who has to his credit the Ezekiel volume of the New American Commentary. Cooper granted the Southern Baptist TEXAN an interview […]

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (BP)–Three pastors and a seminary president expounded June 23 and 24 on the Southern Baptist Convention annual meeting’s theme, “LoveLoud: Actions speak louder than words.” The theme was based on Matthew 5.16: “In the same way, let your light shine before men, so that they may see your good works, and give glory […]

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (BP)–The Executive Committee’s Global Evangelical Relations initiative is off to a running start, Bobby Welch, strategist for the effort, said at the SBC annual meeting in Louisville, Ky., June 23. “Dr. Welch is a man who relates to all peoples everywhere in the world. He is a man who knows how to relate […]

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (BP)--More than 700 people attended the Conference of Southern Baptist Evangelists Sunday worship service June 21 in Louisville, Ky., featuring Johnny Hunt, president of the Southern Baptist Convention, and Ergun Caner, president of Liberty Baptist Theological Seminary ...

FORT DRUM, New York (BP)--A divine appointment in an airport gave Bobby Welch an opportunity to encourage 400 members of an elite U.S. Army unit and personally share the Gospel with soldiers who fight in some of the harshest conditions imaginable.       As co-author of the F.A.I.T.H. evangelism strategy, Welch tells others about Jesus Christ everywhere he goes. As the Southern Baptist Convention's strategist for Global Evangelical Relations, he also travels extensively.       When Welch met Kevin Mangum in an airport terminal during one of those trips it wasn't long before Welch was talking about Jesus. He learned Mangum is a Christian and member of a Methodist church. And Welch, a decorated U.S. Army veteran from the Vietnam era, had even more to talk about with Mangum, a brigadier general who commands the U.S. Army's 10th Mountain Division at Fort Drum in upstate New York.       Several weeks later, James White, the garrison chaplain at Fort Drum, asked Mangum if he knew someone he would like to invite as the keynote speaker at the post's annual National Prayer Breakfast.       "'Get me Bobby Welch,'" Mangum told White.       White got Welch. And on March 2, Welch stood before nearly 400 soldiers. During his weekend at the post, Welch also met with the wives and families of Baptists and others whose loved ones serve overseas, as well as a group of soldiers recuperating from service-related injuries.       "I've known about the 10th Mountain Division since coming into the military," Welch told the camouflage-clad crowd. "I'm very much aware of who you are, where you go, what you do, and I am very, very grateful and humbled about being here this morning. While praying for our meeting earlier this morning, I was moved almost to tears about what an honor and a privilege it is to be among you."       Welch told the soldiers that "multiplied millions" of Americans are deeply grateful for the "extreme sacrifices" their soldiers make as they defend freedom around the world.       "What I'm trying to say to you is just how endeared and indebted we are to you -- how we are strengthened and secured by what you do, and your presence. We're mindful of your sacrifice, the deep, deadly, hurtful unforgettable, and never-ending sacrifice that so many are making."

FORT DRUM, New York, (BP)--Fine sand and blinding dust swirled across the Iraqi desert, providing cover for U.S. Army soldiers to advance deeper into enemy terrain. The lead Humvee inched cautiously forward. The soldiers on point radioed to a support group behind them -- and asked for a chaplain.

BOISE, Idaho (BP)–A sharp increase in crimes against Americans and other Westerners traveling abroad has prompted David Dose, a personal security specialist, to produce a DVD-based curriculum on avoiding and otherwise dealing with such issues as petty theft to long-term detention in foreign countries. Dose, through Fort Sherman Academy in Coeur d’Alene, Idaho, provides hostage […]

LONGVIEW, Wash. (BP)--Ted Cotten reached a milestone -- witnessing to 10,000 people -- on Christmas Eve. By the second week of January: 11,000. “If God lets me live long enough, my goal is to reach 50,000,” said Cotten, an 85-year-old retired pastor.