Missionaries to Vienna, Austria, Van and Jackie Ingram, will host an informational meeting from 5-7 p.m., Thursday, July 9 in Honeycutt 226 for students who are interested in learning more about missions in Europe. The Ingrams serve as missionaries with the International Mission Board. (more…)
Students who are planning to take Applied Ministry (AM) in the Fall 2009 semester must make sure their field supervisor is certified through the AM office. This training is required for all field supervisors prior to the start of the project. (more…)
The Health and Recreation Center (HRC) will be hosting sports activity camps this summer for children in kindergarten through 5th grade and a basketball camp for 5th-8th graders. Each camp is $50 per child and you can register at the HRC. The camps run from 10:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m. each day: (more…)
The Center for Biblical Counseling will host a conference featuring Tedd Tripp on July 10-11. This conference is for churches and pastors to assist with parenting issues. Tripp is the author of the popular child-rearing books, “Shepherding a Child’s Heart” and “Instructing a Child’s Heart.” (more…)
The 2009 Andrew Fuller Center Conference, “Baptist Spirituality: Historical Perspectives,” will be hosted August 24-25 at The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary. The cost of the event is $55 for students and $85 for regular registerees. (more…)
One year ago, I published a blog entitled “An Open Letter to Young Southern Baptists.” I do not intend here to copy that entire blog, but a quick reminder of the challenges I offered will help in understanding the words that follow:
The sad spectacle of South Carolina Governor Mark Sanford continues to dominate the headlines as further revelations add one bizarre twist after another to the governor’s tale of adultery, deceit, and the consequences of sin. With every passing day, pressure mounts for the governor to resign. As the revelations unfold, his leadership credibility is further destroyed. The people of South Carolina now look to their governor’s mansion with a sense of dread and embarrassment.
News out of Great Britain indicates that Richard Dawkins, perhaps the world’s most famous living atheist, is setting up a summer camp intended to help children and teenagers adopt atheism. As The Times [London] reports: “Give Richard Dawkins a child for a week’s summer camp and he will try to give you an atheist for life.”
My friend Jedd Medefind and the Christian Alliance for Orphans are launching today a campaign called “Orphans Deserve Better,” to counter the message of the forthcoming Warner Brothers film “Orphan.” I’d like you to consider joining us.
The Civil War was devastating to the South in a good number of ways, and was especially so financially to the fledging Southern Baptist Theological Seminary. A. T. Robertson reports that the professors at the time all “had been living on their small salaries from their country churches, paid chiefly ‘in kind,’” and closing the Seminary did not seem an altogether unreasonable proposition.
Boyce Bulldogs head coach Jed Coppenger enjoys teaching his players how to excel on the basketball court. He delights in training them how to hit a three-pointer, play hard-nosed defense and execute a 3-on-2 fast break.
But more than that, Coppenger delights in teaching them what it means to be a follower of Jesus Christ. The Bulldogs’ prison ministry is one example of that goal in action.