Student worship camp helps students hone gifts, leadership skills
July 1, 2025
The Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary campus welcomed 80 high school students June 3-6, for the Texas Baptist College Student Worship Camp.
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‘Brother Bob’ ministering to hospital patients through four decades
June 28, 2025
For more than four decades, almost every patient at Midland Memorial Hospital could count on a visit from “Brother Bob” Porterfield, pastor of West Kentucky Avenue Baptist Church in Midland.
Prayer in school: Americans split on issue as Texas law takes effect
June 25, 2025
A new report from Pew Research Center finds Americans split on prayer in school, with just over half saying Christian prayers led by teachers are OK. But approval ranges widely from state to state.
‘Wonderful year’: Dockery speaks to restored sense of stability at Southwestern Seminary
June 11, 2025
“Southwestern Seminary is in a very different place than it was 33 months ago,” said David Dockery, president of Southwestern Seminary. “The board, faculty, staff and students are unanimous in their sense of joyful hopefulness.”
Wolfe urges SBC messengers to not waste ‘our moment’
June 11, 2025
Pulling his message from Ecclesiastes 11: 1–6, Tony Wolfe — executive director-treasurer of the South Carolina Baptist Convention — urged messengers to not retreat from their global mission.
Officers elected during SBC annual meeting in Dallas
June 10, 2025
In addition to electing North Carolina pastor Clint Pressley for a second term as Southern Baptist Convention president, messengers to the annual meeting June 10–11 in Dallas elected a slate of other leaders.
Pressley urges SBC messengers to ‘hold fast’ to their conviction, cooperation
June 10, 2025
Recalling his early years playing football, Clint Pressley recalled how there were some players he was friends with and some he “barely knew their name.”
Sanchez gives encouragement for pastors to identify, avoid ungodly leaders in the church
June 10, 2025
At the Southern Baptist Pastors Conference on June 9 in Dallas, Juan Sanchez said there are two things pastors need to do when it comes to ungodly people in the church who oppose the truth.
‘Measure your magnitude by who you lead to the Master,’ Turner urges in opening sermon of SBC Pastors Conference
June 8, 2025
Pastor Caleb Turner hones in on the spiritual foundation that dwells within Timothy, planted by his grandmother and mother. But what does it mean to dwell?
SWBTS finds ‘genuine stability’ after years of crisis
June 3, 2025
Today, the school is in a place of “genuine stability,” according to Dockery, 72, who dropped the interim from his title in 2023. Enrollment is up, the school has paid off its short-term debt.
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