Archive for the 'Southern Baptist Convention' Category
Wednesday, June 17th, 2015
The Southern Baptist Convention voted yesterday to support traditional marriage between one man and one woman regardless of what SCOTUS decides is legal for the nation. Here’s the story from the Christian Post: Messengers for the Southern Baptist Convention voted Tuesday afternoon in favor of Resolution 5, which among other things, prayerfully calls for the […]
Filed under: American Church, Culture & Religion, Homosexual Marriage, Marriage, Redefinition of Marriage, Same-Sex Marriage, SCOTUS, Southern Baptist Convention, USA
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Monday, June 15th, 2015
‘Lies, Darned Lies and Church Statistics’ We recently wrote about a poll that showed Baptists to be among the most favored denominations in America. Now comes this latest information that shows a decline in the the largest Baptist and evangelical denomination-Southern Baptist Convention by 200,000 or so last year. Meanwhile that latest data also shows […]
Filed under: American Church, Culture & Religion, Evangelical Christians, Southern Baptist Convention
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Thursday, June 4th, 2015
According to a recent LifeWay poll, among the different Christian denominational groups in the USA, Americans have the ‘most favorable’ impression of the Baptists, the Catholics, and the Non-denominational. From Lifeway Research: Americans have a surprising openness to Christian churches, even those who are supposedly turned off to religion, a new survey finds. No matter […]
Filed under: American Church, Catholic Church, Culture & Religion, Pentecostal Christians, Southern Baptist Convention
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Thursday, November 13th, 2014
Dr. Ronnie Floyd, president of the Southern Baptist Convention, is pleading and encouraging and calling the 46,000 churches in his denomination and beyond to “extraordinary prayer” for revival and another Great Awakening. Here’s the message from his blog: <Read the whole message> He has also made available his complete message in an 16 page e-book […]
Filed under: American Church, Culture & Religion, Intercession, Politics & Religion, Revival, Southern Baptist Convention, USA
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Thursday, September 25th, 2014
The California Baptist congregation which earlier this year came out in support of homosexuality and same-sex marriage has been officially kicked out of the Southern Baptist Convention. Here’s the story from the World Mag: The Southern Baptist Convention on Tuesday voted to remove a Los Angeles-area church from its membership after its pastor announced support […]
Filed under: American Church, Culture & Religion, Homosexual Marriage, Homosexual Rights, LGBT, Progressive Agenda, Southern Baptist Convention, The Bible, USA
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Monday, August 25th, 2014
(Photo credit: Wikipedia) On Friday (Aug.22) the Obama administration issued new procedures (the 8th set of rules) for fulfilling their HHS Contraceptive and Abortifacient Mandate. However, the Baptists and the Catholic Bishops have already found the latest revision to be inadequate for maintaining religious freedom. Here’s the story from the Baptist Press: In a […]
Filed under: Catholic Church, Christian Organizations, Church and State, Constitutional Rights, Culture & Religion, Free Exercise of Religion, Freedom of Religion, HHS Mandate, Lawsuits, Obama Administration, Politics & Religion, Progressive Agenda, Sanctity of Life, Southern Baptist Convention, USA
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Tuesday, July 15th, 2014
(Photo credit: Mr.TinDC) We recently made an observation that all Christian churches and organizations would soon have to publically declare where they stand on homosexuality and same-sex marriage. Already some Christian publishers are having to choose whether to publish books with non-traditional unorthodox views on the subject or not. At least one publisher has […]
Filed under: American Church, Bible Issues, Christian Organizations, Culture & Religion, Evangelical Christians, Gay Agenda, Progressive Agenda, Redefinition of Marriage, Southern Baptist Convention, USA
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Thursday, June 26th, 2014
(Photo credit: The U.S. National Archives) The California Southern Baptist pastor who lead his congregation to accept Homosexuality and reject his denomination’s traditional view has now been rewarded with a trip to the White House and a congratulatory reception with the President. Here’s the story from The Christian Post: Danny Cortez, who leads New […]
Filed under: American Church, Civil Rights, Homosexual Marriage, Homosexual Rights, Politically Correct, President Barack Obama, Progressive Agenda, Redefinition of Marriage, Southern Baptist Convention, Traditional Marriage, USA
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Thursday, June 5th, 2014
(Dr. Albert Mohler: Wikipedia) Yesterday we posted about the California Baptist church that voted to turn its back on the traditional Biblical teaching on homosexuality and was trying to identify and forge some kind of ‘third way’ while continuing to be a member of the Southern Baptist Convention. Dr. Albert Mohler, President of the […]
Filed under: American Church, Bible Issues, Christian Witness, Culture & Religion, Homosexual Lifestyle, Homosexual Rights, LGBT, Progressive Agenda, Same-Sex Marriage, Southern Baptist Convention, USA
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Wednesday, June 4th, 2014
(SBC logo: Wikipedia) Members of a Southern Baptist church in La Mirada, California have voted to change their congregation’s official stance on homosexuality after hearing teaching on ‘both sides.’ In the process they chose to reject their denomination’s traditional Biblical teaching on the issue. It remains to be seen whether they will be allowed […]
Filed under: American Church, Bible Issues, Evangelical Christians, Homosexual Marriage, Homosexual Rights, LGBT, Southern Baptist Convention, USA
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