Former Albanian worker voices heart for witness to Kosovo Muslim refugees
FORT WORTH, Texas (BP)–The television flashes pictures of weeping refugees and hungry children, people in despair fleeing the war-torn country of Kosovo for safe haven in neighboring Albania. The pictures look foreign to most Americans, but Paula Chaney is looking at scenes from a place she used to call home. Chaney, a Southwestern Baptist Theological […]
Focus on evangelism rather than end-times speculation, Rankin says
FORT WORTH, Texas (BP)–Evangelize the world rather than speculate on when it will come to an end, urged Jerry Rankin, president of the International Mission Board, at Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary. “The good news of the kingdom will be proclaimed to the whole world as a witness to every nation and then the end will […]
Seminarians’ spring ministries span revivals to inner-city needs
FORT WORTH, Texas (BP)–Spring break for Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary students might be a break from school, but it’s not a break from ministry. And more than 100 churches and 900 people who made decisions for Christ, including 206 who made professions of faith, are grateful. Nearly 150 students from the Fort Worth, Texas, seminary […]
Speaker challenges Calvinism as not reflecting God’s grace
FORT WORTH, Texas (BP)–Looking at God’s grace through a Calvinistic view is missing what God means by grace, said Frank Page, pastor of Warren Baptist Church in Augusta, Ga., during a March 4 chapel service at Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary in Fort Worth, Texas. “Calvinism presents a God who arbitrarily selects some to be saved […]
In drought, pray for forgiveness, not just for rain, Blackaby says
FORT WORTH, Texas (BP)–During the Texas drought last summer, noted author and speaker Henry Blackaby didn’t pray for rain — he prayed for forgiveness. “Is there anything in Texas that might cause God to withhold the rain to get the heart of his people to return to him, to seek his face in repentance and […]
First IMB music missionaries persevered by holding to the call
FORT WORTH, Texas (BP)–As the missionary spoke about Colombia, Violet knew God was calling her to go to the South American country, but she didn’t know how she could break the news to her newlywed husband. “I can’t go forward. I can’t go off and leave Don,” she told herself. But the Holy Spirit insisted. […]
Biblical preaching still essential for 21st century, prof contends
FORT WORTH, Texas (BP)–Biblical preaching is not out of date as some people claim; rather, it still has the answers for society today and requires pioneers to take those answers to people in the new millennium, said Neil Wiseman in a series of lectures at Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary in Fort Worth, Texas, Feb. 2 […]
