Kentucky pastor Kevin Ezell nominated NAMB president
JAMES A. SMITH SR. | Florida Baptist Witness
UPDATED, Sept. 1, 4:00 p.m.PENSACOLA —Louisville pastor Kevin Ezell has been nominated president of the North American Mission Board, search chairman Ted Traylor told Florida Baptist Witness Aug. 31.The recommendation of Ezell, senior pastor of Highview Baptist Church in Louisville and immediate past president of the Southern Baptist Pastors’ Conference, will be considered Sept. 14 at a special called meeting.Ezell, 48, is the unanimous choice of the eight-person search committee.“I am humbled and honored by the search committee’s confidence and nomination,” Ezell told the Witness on Sep...
While working at CompUSA to pay his way through seminary, Buddy Knight learned of a grave danger that led him to his calling—equipping technologically-challenged parents to protect their techno-savvy kids from the dark side of the World Wide Web. Knight, a former naval intelligence officer and fathe...
Southern Baptist pastors among immigration statement signers
Jerry Pierce | Managing Editor
HOUSTON—Several Houston-area Southern Baptist pastors are among the signers of a declaration calling for secure borders and a compassionate and just overhaul of the federal immigration system.The Houston-based U.S. Pastor Council’s “Pastors’ Declaration on Border Security and Immigration Refo...
The Executive Board of the Southern Baptists of Texas Convention approved a recommended 2.55 percent budget increase for 2011 and filled a vacancy in its minister-church relations department, hiring Jeremy Roberts of Lenoir City, Tenn., as a ministry associate.During its summer meeting held A...
Between kids heading back to school and the Christmas season just around the corner, the wish-lists are sure to include all kinds of media—MP3s, DVDs, PSPs, iPhones, the iPods, iPads, the Wii, XBox, and miscellaneous other gadgets.Here are some tips parental tech advisor Buddy Knight offers fo...
Pritchard calls new Criswell trustees to unite on theology, love, purpose
Tammi Reed Ledbetter | News Editor
DALLAS—As Criswell College nears the end of its 40th year and begins its first as an independently governed school, "a chance to start afresh and anew" was celebrated at the new board of trustees’ inaugural meeting with chairman Jimmy Pritchard, pastor of First Baptist Church of Forney, calling for ...
A recent news article about immigration set me off a little. The focus was on the diversity of viewpoints within biblical Christianity. Within the article, a Republican lawmaker indicated that religious leaders would lose their churches and the White House if they didn’t get on his side of the...
As a church planter, I'm a big fan of social media. I use it to connect with people, make new friends, learn about people's struggles so that I can pray for them, reestablish relationships with old friends, and just have a lot of fun. I often encourage people who aren't engaged in social medi...
You have to be my age having grown up a Southern Baptist to remember filling out a Sunday School envelope and placing money inside. My parents started me out with the practice. Once I earned my own money from cutting grass, working at a summer job or laboring on a farm, my tithe went in the en...
WASHINGTON—First, a federal appeals court struck down the FCC's broadcast indecency policy that regulated TV obscenities. Then, the former FCC chairman who enforced the policy said he has had a change of heart and now believes curse words on TV deserve "full First Amendment protection."With t...
“Train up a child in the way he should go” (Proverbs 22:6) covers every area of a child’s development—emotional, physical, mental, spiritual and social. In the 21st century, technology has the potential to influence children in all of those ways. Here are some tips for guiding children in res...
‘Infinite Playlists’ offers parents guidance in discussing music choices of children
Tammi Reed Ledbetter | News Editor
“Whether you wish to comfort the sad, to terrify the happy, to encourage the despairing, to humble the proud, to calm the passionate, or to appease those full of hate—and who could number all these masters of the human heart, namely, the emotions, inclinations, and affections that impel...
Communications technology kids crave: pros and cons
Staff
Cell phones: Have generally replaced the home phone. “Super phones” come equipped with mobile Web, cameras, texting.—Pros: peace of mind for parents to be able to reach their teenagers, a way to get help in case of emergency, texting provides ways to talk without talking.—Cons: Teens allowed t...
ODESSA—The minister-church relations department of the Southern Baptists of Texas Convention held a transitional pastor training in Odessa Aug. 1-2 that drew 49 pastors from Texas, Idaho, Colorado, New Mexico and one from as far away as Canada.This was a certification training segment done in...
Students from four Texas Southern Baptist churches were among the more than 145 preteens who led Bible studies in apartments and mobile home parks in the cities of Norman and Moore, Okla., this summer.The outreach effort of the LITs (Leaders in Training) resulted in the salvation of 130...
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Inglewood Baptist Church, Grand Prairie, TX (near Dallas) seeks FT senior pastor. The church runs about 300 in worship and has 3 additional full-time staff members. Send resumes or questions to pastorsearch@inglewoodbaptist.com or mail to '...
