Thursday, August 16, 2018

• Love Life group seeks more prayer, fewer abortions

  by Dianna L. Cagle/Biblical Recorder, posted Thursday, August 16, 2018 (one year ago)

  

  Photos provided by the Biblical Recorder

  NEWTON, N.C. (BP) -- A group of pro-life advocates in North Carolina believes God can end the abortion industry, and they are working with people across the state to make it happen.

  "We really can do something about it," said Josh Kappes, director of city development at Love Life, a non-profit that leads people to pray and rally near abortion clinics in three regions of North Carolina. "It's our modern-day slavery."

  Kappes, who is also pastor of biblical counseling at Vertical Life Church, a Southern Baptist congregation in Newton, networks with pastors and local church leaders, recruiting believers to gather for one-hour prayer journey meetings to explain the ministry of Love Life. The outreach initially focused on Charlotte, but recently expanded to include other areas. Read More

• Granola bars sensitize students to NYC's vulnerable

  by Grace Thornton, posted Thursday, August 16, 2018 (one year ago)

  

  Submitted photo

  NEW YORK (BP) -- It all started with two granola bars and a challenge, and before the day was over, a group of high school students saw the world's human trafficking problem from a whole different perspective.

  The concept was simple.

  The students, from metro Dallas, were spending the day in New York City learning how to combat human trafficking when Raleigh Sadler issued a challenge.

  "Go buy a box of granola bars, and when you approach someone who seems isolated, have two of them in your hand," said Sadler, executive director of the Let My People Go ministry. "Then offer them one of the bars and eat yours too -- share that simple meal with them." Read More

• Military chaplain plays historic role; comforts families

  by Mike Ebert, posted Thursday, August 16, 2018 (one year ago)

  

  Army photo by Sgt. Quince Lanford

  OSAN AIR BASE, South Korea (BP) -- Before dawn on July 27, Southern Baptist United States Army Chaplain (Colonel) Samuel S. Lee, stepped onto a U.S. Air Force C-17 aircraft at Osan Air Base to lead prayer for crew members who were about to take off on a historic flight across the border to North Korea.

  "I woke up at 3:30 a.m. and prayed for them before they departed," Lee said. "The mood was both excitement and solemn."

  A few hours later, that same plane returned to the base with 55 small wooden coffins draped in the flag of the United Nations containing the remains of U.S. soldiers. Again, Lee boarded the plane to pray. Read More

• Pastor gets first jolt from church's defibrillator

  by Mark Maynard/Kentucky Today, posted Thursday, August 16, 2018 (one year ago)

  

  Photo by Mark Maynard/Kentucky Today

  WESTWOOD, Ky. (BP) -- Two years ago pastor Mike Rice was approached by two women members of the church he leads about placing a defibrillator in the building.

  "We had a senior deacon who had some episodes," Rice said. "But I sure never knew I'd be the first one to need it."

  Two months after his heart stopped while he was behind the pulpit, the 66-year-old pastor was preaching again on Sunday morning, Aug. 12. Read More

• Univ. of Iowa reinstates religious groups for now

  by David Roach, posted Thursday, August 16, 2018 (one year ago)

  

  IOWA CITY, Iowa (BP) -- The University of Iowa has reinstated multiple religious student groups as registered campus organizations after one group threatened to seek a temporary restraining order amid pending litigation.

  InterVarsity Graduate Christian Fellowship sued the university Aug. 6 because school officials revoked the fellowship's status as an official student organization over a requirement that InterVarsity Graduate leaders "share the group's faith and exemplify its Christian values," according to a complaint filed by the nonprofit Becket Fund for Religious Liberty. The temporary reinstatement, secured when Becket threatened to seek a temporary restraining order, will apply until the lawsuit is resolved. Read More

• FIRST-PERSON: Heaven on earth

  by Joshua Crutchfield, posted Thursday, August 16, 2018 (one year ago)

  Heaven can be seen on earth, Joshua Crutchfield writes, through "the supernatural awe-inspiring power of God" among His people. Read More

• Greear: El informe de los abusos católicos requiere 'medidas enérgicas'

  Por David Roach, posted Thursday, August 16, 2018 (one year ago)

  

  Imagen: iStock/Se requiere permiso de licencia.

  HARRISBURG, Pa. (BP) -- Un informe del gran jurado de Pennsylvania que alega niveles sin precedente de abuso sexual y encubrimiento por parte de clérigos católicos ha atraído la atención de los bautistas del sur.

  El presidente de la Convención Bautista del Sur (SBC), J.D. Greear dijo que los bautistas del sur deben responder al informe tomando todos los pasos necesarios para erradicar el abuso sexual "de dentro de nuestra comunidad." Comentaristas de dos seminarios de la SBC señalaron ambos las singulares maneras en las ... Read More

• Adoración multiétnica culmina demostraciones de fin de semana en Virginia

  Por David Roach, posted Thursday, August 16, 2018 (one year ago)

  

  Foto de Facebook.

  CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. (BP) -- Pastores evangélicos en Charlottesville, Va., dicen que un culto comunitario interracial pareció ser la mayor reunión local durante lo que los medios describieron como un fin de semana de demostraciones pacíficas pero tensas en la ciudad.

  Un año después de que un rally supremacista blanco en Charlottesville se tornara violento y dejara a tres personas muertas, una retransmisión frustrada en Washington de la demostración Unan a la Derecha el 12 de agosto atrajo a menos de 40 nacionalistas blancos y fue eclipsada por los contra manifestantes, de ... Read More

• La Junta de Misiones Norteamericanas inaugura un grupo de evangelismo, nombra al director ejecutivo

  Por Mike Ebert, posted Thursday, August 16, 2018 (one year ago)

  

  Foto de Hayley Catt/NAMB.

  ALPHARETTA, Ga. (BP) -- La Junta de Misiones Norteamericanas (NAMB) inaugurará un grupo de evangelismo y liderazgo que promoverá el evangelismo entre las iglesias bautistas del sur, proveerá recursos evangelísticos y capacitará a los pastores para que ayuden a sus congregaciones a ser más activas en el evangelismo. Jim Law, quien actualmente sirve como pastor ejecutivo de First Baptist Church en Woodstock, Ga., servirá como director ejecutivo de este nuevo grupo.

  "Todo lo que hacemos en NAMB se enfoca en compartir la esperanza del ... Read More

• Base militar ha visto 1,459 salvaciones desde marzo

  Por Josie Rabbitt Bingham, posted Thursday, August 16, 2018 (one year ago)

  

  Foto de José Rondón de la página de Facebook.

  FORT LEONARD WOOD, Mo. -- El capellán del Ejército de EE.UU. (capitán) José Rondón cree que "no hay nada más estimulante en la vida que ver a la gente llegar a Cristo." Este año, Rondón ha experimentado esa alegría con más de 1,400 profesiones de fe -- algo que podría describirse como un despertar espiritual -- en Fort Leonard Wood, su lugar de ministerio.

  Rondón resume su parte en el esfuerzo con una palabra: intencionalidad.

  Se trata de ser intencional con las palabras y cómo trata a sus compañeros soldados. Así, cuando un primer sargento primeramente se acercó a Rondón y ... Read More

• EDITORIAL: El obituario

  Luis R. Lopez, posted Thursday, August 16, 2018 (one year ago)

  El 5 de junio de este año, el periódico Redwood Falls Gazette en Redwood publicó el obituario de Kathleen Dehmlow quién murió a los 80 años en Springfield, Minn. El comienzo del anuncio de su muerte parece bastante común. Indica cuando nació, quiénes fueron sus ... Read More