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Truth, legacy, vision: SBTS remaining faithful to founders vision

(The following article originally appeared in SBC Life) On a sultry July day in 1856, an up-and-coming professor at Furman University stood before his faculty colleagues and delivered his inaugural

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Proactive for life: Student points abortion candidates to good news of Christ’s redeeming love

Saturday mornings for many people means sleeping in, eating breakfast in pajamas and taking in a favorite lineup of cartoons. But that is not the slate of activities for Hank

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Satan will attack church plants at their root, Lawless tells conferees

Chuck Lawless, dean of the Billy Graham School of Missions and Evangelism at Southern, reminded attendees of the Missional Church Planting conference at Sojourn Community Church that spiritual warfare is

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Parents of recent SBTS grad murdered in Colombia

The parents of Dagoberto Figueroa, who graduated earlier this month from The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, were found dead in their home in Bogota, Colombia, on May 24, the apparent

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Planters need team members of deep godliness, Payne says

J.D. Payne, director of the Church Planting Center at The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, identified eight characteristics to look for in potential members of a church planting team at the

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Stetzer at church planting conference: churches need missional focus

Every church and denomination is prone to an anti-missional mentality that must be combated for the sake of reaching the lost with the Gospel, Ed Stetzer said May 11 at

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Three questions with Ed Stetzer

Towersonline recently caught up with Ed Stetzer, president of LifeWay Research & LifeWay’s Missiologist in Residence, for three questions. The questions are: What are the two biggest issues facing conservative

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Seminarians encouraged to attend SBC annual meeting

The Great Commission Resurgence, whether a Texas church is in friendly cooperation with the Southern Baptist Convention and the use of beverage alcohol are all topics likely to be considered

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‘Angels & Demons’: Best-selling author Dan Brown ‘selling a theology’

Six years after ‘The Da Vinci Code’ first dominated the bestseller lists, suspense novelist Dan Brown continues to clean up in box offices and bookstores. The movie version of ‘Angels

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3 questions with Tim Keller

Tim Keller serves as senior pastor of Redeemer Presbyterian Church in Manhattan, N.Y. Question: What do pastors need to be doing to lead their flock out of idolatry and into

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SBTS sends spring graduates out in the power of weakness

Faithful ministers proclaim the Gospel as incompetents—‘frail children of dust’—so that the power of God can shine brightly as He works through them, R. Albert Mohler Jr., told graduates during

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Live blog 10: Missional Church Planting conference

Speaker: Chuck Lawless, dean of the Billy Graham School of Missions and Evangelism at Southern Seminary. Lawless has served as pastor of two different congregations in Ohio, and is the

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For the Media

For news media seeking comments from President R. Albert Mohler Jr. or other seminary personalities, please contact:

Caleb Shaw
Executive Assistant to the President and Chief of Staff
(502) 897-4121
cshaw@sbts.edu

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