Susan G. Komen restores Planned Parenthood funding option
WASHINGTON (BP) -- Susan G. Komen for the Cure revised a policy Friday that it had recently used in deciding to stop funding for Planned Parenthood, leaving the impression it had reversed itself on future grants to the country's No. 1 abortion provider...
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NAMB president keynoting SBTC CP Luncheon
North American Mission Board President Kevin Ezell will be the keynote speaker during the annual SBTC Cooperative Program Luncheon at the Frisco Convention Center on Tuesday, Feb. 28 during the Empower Evangelism Conference. Musical guests will be Josh and Angela Stanbery. Josh is music pastor at Prestonwood Baptist Church’s Dallas campus. Ezell
Continue ReadingThe agenda of disgust
It’s trendy this season to talk about how unhappy voters are with their choices for president. After listening to candidates and pundits hack the president and his aspiring opponents for the 2012 presidential election to pieces, some are calling for someone else to step into the race—someone we can get
Continue Reading‘I Am Not Ashamed!’ Empower Evangelism Conf. Feb. 27-29 in Frisco
The 2012 SBTC Empower Evangelism Conference is planned Feb. 27-29 at the Dr. Pepper Arena in Frisco. The theme, “I Am Not Ashamed,” is taken from Romans 1:14-17. This year’s conference will feature many familiar names, from evangelists such as Junior Hill to pastors such as Florida’s Ted Traylor and Bob
Continue ReadingLadies Session Feb. 27 at conference hotel
The Ladies’ Session of the Empower Evangelism Conference will be from 1:30-4 p.m. on Feb. 27 at the Embassy Suites Hotel, across the street from the Frisco Convention Center. As usual, the session is free of charge and will feature Laurie Cole of Priority Ministries in Houston, two wives of pastors—Lois
Continue ReadingSr. Adult Luncheon Feb. 29
Comedian and musician Aaron Wilburn will headline the annual SBTC Senior Adult Luncheon on Feb. 29 at the Frisco Convention Center. Musical guest will be LaDonna Gatlin, recording artist, award-winning speaker and sister of the Gatlin Brothers. Wilburn is known for appealing to a wide spectrum of audiences with humor that
Continue ReadingLongtime 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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