Archive for January 2012
Longtime pastor, early SBTC leader Miles Seaborn dies
FORT WORTH—Miles Seaborn Jr., a longtime Texas pastor, former missionary and one of the leading figures in the formation of the Southern Baptists of Texas Convention, died Jan. 22 at his home in Fort Worth. He was 81. Seaborn retired from Birchman Baptist Church in Fort Worth in 1997 after 29 [...]
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Lewisville church carving gospel paths in hard-to-reach parts of East Asia
LEWISVILLE—The Great Commission commands believers to “go and make disciples of all nations.” But in many nations that command seems impossible because mission work and Christianity are outlawed. Lakeland Baptist Church in Lewisville is breaking through those barriers, using conversational English in East Asia to make inroads in places where Christianity [...]
Continue Reading16th-century Radical Reformation celebrated at Southwestern Seminary
FORT WORTH—Much like evangelical believers everywhere, Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary recognizes a great debt to the Reformation. Unlike some Southern Baptist churches and seminaries, SWBTS [...]
Continue ReadingCourageous Anabaptist women featured during Radical Reformation Tour in May
FORT WORTH—During the Radical Reformation Tour that Southwestern Seminary will host in May, participants will visit significance places such as the site of several drownings in Zurich, a farmhouse in the Emmental Valley that still has the secret compartment built into the barn that was used to hide an Anabaptist [...]
Continue ReadingChurches to saturate McAllen with gospel over spring break
MCALLEN—Teams of adults and students on spring break plan to get the gospel message to 50,000 households in the McAllen area of the Rio Grande Valley on spring break, March 12-16. In cooperation with Southern Baptist churches in the area and the Southern Baptists of Texas Convention evangelism staff, volunteers will [...]
Continue ReadingSignature Sounds to be heard at Empower Evangelism Conference
The Grammy-nominated Ernie Haase & Signature Sound has broken the traditional mold of gospel quartets. Their unconventional approach will be heard during the SBTC Empower Evangelism Conference, Feb. 27-29, at the Dr. Pepper Arena in Frisco. The group’s founder and leader, Haase, was a long-time member of the famous Cathedral Quartet, [...]
Continue ReadingPastors in the spotlight
There’s a tension between James’ warning in chapter 3, verse 1 of his epistle that not many of us should aspire to be teachers, and Peter’s encouragement (1 Peter 3:15) that we should always be ready to give an answer for the hope within us. Maybe we could see the [...]
Continue ReadingDon’t be ashamed of the gospel
The 2012 SBTC Evangelism Conference theme is “I Am Not Ashamed,” taken from Romans 1:14-17. The passage challenges us to be courageous witnesses for Christ. In an increasingly hostile culture we cannot allow ourselves to be marginalized as followers of Jesus. A more timely title could not have been chosen [...]
Continue ReadingAppeals court upholds ‘Texas Sonogram Law’
AUSTIN—A Texas law requiring women seeking abortions to undergo a sonogram, and physicians to provide an audible heartbeat and physical description of the baby, is constitutional and may be enforced, a federal appeals court ruled on Jan. 10. The decision by a three-judge panel of the U.S. 5th Circuit Court of [...]
Continue ReadingGod leads Watauga church to consider needs of South Asia
WATAUGA—South Asia was never really on the radar of First Baptist Church of Watauga in years past, although the congregation of about 300 members had made a successful transition to becoming an Acts 1:8-focused church. In the oft-cited Bible passage, the resurrected Jesus tells his disciples they would become Holy [...]
Continue ReadingConference to consider influence of 16th-century Anabaptist movement
California pastor Rick Warren and Reformation scholar Abraham Friesen will join Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary faculty to weigh the impact of the so-called Radical Reformation on modern trends in Baptist thought and life during Southwestern’s annual Anabaptism & Contemporary Baptists Conference, Jan. 30-31. The two-day conference, hosted on the seminary’s campus, [...]
Continue ReadingAfter two wars, veteran was called to duty
ATLANTA, Texas—War was indescribable, he said. No carefully penned, heartstring tugging or gut-wrenching sentence could begin to convey the realities of war. Yet war could not [...]
Continue ReadingIMB training for reaching SE Asia peoples March 1-3 in Euless
EULESS—First Baptist Church of Euless will host a training event, March 1-3, for groups embracing an unreached, unengaged people group (UUPG) from Southeast Asia. This International Mission Board event will provide training in how to effectively research and pray for UUPGs, casting vision for reaching a UUPG, strengthening your church's UUPG [...]
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