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Platt to step down from IMB; Meador named as interim
After receiving the resignation of David Platt as president of the International Mission Board, to be effective at the Sept. 27 trustee meeting, the trustees' executive committee voted in a special meeting to name Clyde Meador as interim president, subject to full board approval. Read More...
FIRST-PERSON: Adjusting to the dark
My worship was radically changed on Sunday morning, July 28, 2002, in Denver, Colo. It had never been more difficult for me to take my usual pastor's wife place at Riverside Baptist Church -- only I was no longer the pastor's wife and my husband was no longer the pastor. Read More...
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'Gospel above all' motivates Greear agenda
The supremacy of the Gospel will motivate J.D. Greear as he leads Southern Baptists to evangelize, plant churches and mobilize college students for the Kingdom, he told Southern Baptist executives Sept. 17 in Nashville.
- Exec. Comm. members' questions aired in open forum
- Baptists feed Florence survivors, prepare for recovery
- #MeToo, church awareness focus of study
- After duck boat tragedy, parents' faith gives comfort
- FROM THE STATES: La., Ark., N.M. evangelism/missions news; 'Numbers matter because they mean people'
- FIRST-PERSON: The guy I failed to witness to
Today's Devotion
From the Book of Daniel:
Vision of the glory of God; prophecy of kingdoms from David to Antichrist; the Great Tribulation.
I ate no pleasant bread, neither came flesh nor wine in my mouth, neither did I anoint myself at all, till three whole weeks were fulfilled (Dan. 10:3).
Cyrus' proclamation to encourage the Jews to return to Jerusalem was made in the first year of his reign (Ezra 1:1-4). Only about 50,000 Israelites responded and went with Zerubbabel to help rebuild the Temple.
During the third year of the reign of Cyrus, or two years after he issued the proclamation, opposition became so intense they were ordered to stop the reconstruction (Ezra 4:4-22). - Continue...
