Tammi Ledbetter

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (BP)??”Christians are engaged in a civil war on planet earth. The enemy is not the ACLU, the Disney Corporation, ABC Television or corporate America. The enemy is the devil.”After stating that premise, Mike Whitehead, Midwestern Baptist Theological Seminary business affairs vice president, told a Sept. 11 chapel audience: “… our warfare is […]

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (BP)–Students arriving for fall classes at Midwestern Baptist Theological Seminary in Kansas City, Mo., were challenged to train for a ministry which will send them charging through life until death seeking to populate heaven by their witness.Midwestern President Mark Coppenger told new students during their Aug. 22 orientation of a visit he […]

EDITORS’ NOTE: This story replaces the (BP) story with the same headline dated 8/15/97. KANSAS CITY, Mo. (BP)–Midwestern Baptist Theological Seminary has been notified of the removal of two notations by the Association of Theological Schools regarding trustee governance and the atmosphere of the learning environment.Two other notations are retained with a progress report due […]

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (BP)–Midwestern Baptist Theological Seminary has been notified of the removal of two notations by the Association of Theological Schools regarding trustee governance and the atmosphere of the learning environment. Two other notations were retained, with a progress report due in November 1998, allowing time to demonstrate the effectiveness of planned improvements in […]

LIBERTY, Mo. (BP)–“You have to go out. You don’t have to come back,” Midwestern Baptist Theological Seminary President Mark Coppenger said, drawing on the slogan of the former U.S. Life-Saving Service to challenge the seminary’s 86 graduates to demonstrate a similar spirit as they minister in the years ahead.In May 17 commencement exercises held at […]

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (BP)–Concerns of a number of Southern Baptist leaders in a controversy involving the New International Version translation of the Bible were unchanged by a May 14 announcement by Zondervan Publishing House that it is “unequivocally committed to continue to publish” the current NIV text “without any changes or revisions.” A joint statement by […]

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (BP)–Jim Cogdill Jr. has been appointed vice president for academic affairs at Midwestern Baptist Theological Seminary, Kansas City, Mo., and will assume his duties July 1. Cogdill currently is pastor of Wake Cross Roads Baptist Church, Raleigh, N.C., and has been an adjunct professor of evangelism and church growth at nearby Southeastern […]

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (BP)--Woven throughout 2 Timothy are "the marching orders of an older pastor" to a young minister and son in the faith who is taking over responsibility "for the church he loves very much." With that context, layman Paul Pressler laid out priorities for a pastor's ministry in an April 29 message at Midwestern Baptist Theological Seminary, Kansas City, Mo.

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (BP)--In his first visit to Midwestern Baptist Theological Seminary, W.A. Criswell spoke on being a workman for God to a packed chapel service April 17. They responded to his message by kneeling throughout the auditorium in a prayer of commitment to serve wherever God should call them.

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (BP)--After praying "every corner, every brick, every span of stone be utterly pleasing" to God, Midwestern Baptist Theological Seminary trustees unanimously endorsed continuation of an architectural planning process for new facilities to handle expected growth.