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.
The audio files from the Great Commission Resurgence Task Force’s 10 months of work in 2009 and 2010 were sealed for 15 years, the agreed-upon time by the group. The collection is housed in the Southern Baptist Historical Library and Archives and consists of 57 compact discs and very few paper documents.
This year’s WMU celebration at the Omni Dallas Hotel June 8 featured the theme “Let the Nations Be Glad,” based on Psalm 67:4: “May the nations be glad and sing for joy, for you rule the people with equity and guide the nations of the earth.”
Parsons’ “Sweet Beulah Land” was voted song of the year in 1981 by readers of Singing News Magazine, where he was voted favorite baritone (1986–1987), favorite male singer (1988) and favorite songwriter (1986, 1992, 1993, 1994, 1995).
The faculty of Ouachita Baptist University in Arkadelphia, Arkansas, has issued a vote of no confidence in President Ben Sells. This is reportedly the first
States are increasingly passing laws that criminalize not only sexual abuse, but the grooming process that often precedes the abuse.
Both laws, said ADF Senior Counsel Greg Chafuen, prioritize children over politics and protect faith-based families from discrimination.
The U.S. Senate confirmed former Arkansas governor and Baptist pastor Mike Huckabee as the Trump administration’s ambassador to Israel on Wednesday (April 10), in a 53–46 vote largely along party lines.
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