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With 3,401 votes (60.87%), Bart Barber (
@bartbarber
) has been elected president of the Southern Baptist Convention.
#SBC22
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BREAKING
Brent Leatherwood removed as president of ERLC
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@dandarling
: 'I hope millions of people see Unplanned and that it becomes a catalyst for creating a culture of life in America.'
@UnplannedMovie
@AbbyJohnson
#UnPlanned
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Charles Stanley, a former Southern Baptist Convention president and one of the nation’s foremost television and radio preachers, passed away peacefully at his home today (April 18) at age 90.
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The EC has voted, on behalf of the SBC, to withdraw fellowship from Raleigh White Baptist Church in Albany, Ga., based on 'clear evidence' of racial discrimination.
#sbcam18
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The newly elected speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives is a Southern Baptist who has served as a trustee of the SBC’s Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission. Rep. Mike Johnson (R-La.) was elected to the speakership on Wednesday.
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NFL's
@BenjaminSWatson
& wife Kirsten donate ultrasound machine to help New Orleans health ministry save infants' lives.
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'I'm just thankful that the film is serving as a catalyst for this type of activism.'
@AbbyJohnson
@UnplannedMovie
@ProLifeAction
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BREAKING: Saddleback Church deemed “not in friendly cooperation” with SBC
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Henry Blackaby, author of Experiencing God, passed away today, Feb. 10, 2024. He was 88.
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@dandarling
: 'I hope millions of people see Unplanned and that it becomes a catalyst for creating a culture of life in America.'
@UnplannedMovie
@AbbyJohnson
#UnPlanned
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BREAKING
Brent Leatherwood to remain as ERLC president
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@drtonyevans
: 'Ezekiel 43 says don’t bring your kings next to My throne like we’re equals. There must be a distinction between the Kingdom of God and the kingdom of men.'
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Former SBC president Fred Luter announced Tuesday his intent to nominate Mobile, Ala.,-area pastor Ed Litton for SBC president at the 2021 SBC Annual meeting in Nashville in June.
Litton is the third announced candidate.
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The SBC Executive Committee has elected Jeff Iorg as the President-elect of the EC at a special-called meeting in Dallas.
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.
@bellevuepastor
,
@frankpagesbc
to visit site of church shooting; SBC offers to pay funeral expenses for 26 dead
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Texas pastor Bart Barber was reelected to a second term as president of the SBC on Tuesday, June 13, at the 2023 SBC Annual Meeting in New Orleans.
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Breaking:
@_PPatterson_
has withdrawn from delivering the convention sermon in Dallas. Baptist Press will post a report shortly.
#sbcam18
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BREAKING:
@plattdavid
initiates 'thorough, outside, independent' sexual abuse investigations, issues public apology to Anne Marie Miller.
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A special-called meeting will take place March 21 for SBC Executive Committee members to consider the nomination of Jeff Iorg as the next EC president and CEO.
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Former National Football League player Benjamin Watson and his wife have collaborated for the third time with the Southern Baptist Convention’s ethics entity to provide an ultrasound machine for the benefit of women in crisis pregnancies.
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Kathy Litton
@kferg16
elected SBC registration secretary, marking the first time a woman has held the position, said
@JimmyScroggins
, who nominated her.
#SBC19
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Jeff Iorg elected SBC Executive Committee president/CEO
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It's official.
@IMB_SBC
trustees have announced that
@DrPaulChitwood
was elected IMB president by a unanimous vote during an executive session.
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BREAKING:
@ronniefloyd
to be recommended as next SBC Executive Committee president during April 2 special called meeting.
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With 2,727 votes (51.31%), Nathan Finn (
@nathanafinn
) has been elected recording secretary of the Southern Baptist Convention.
#SBC22
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President Trump and family were guests of Pastor
@JimmyScroggins
at the
@goFamilyChurch
Christmas Eve service earlier this evening.
.
@realDonaldTrump
entering
@gofamilychurch
downtown campus
#WestPalmBeach
for Christmas Eve service
#TrumpinPalmBeach
@pbpost
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Junior Hill, a beloved and in-demand evangelist among Southern Baptists for more than 50 years, died Jan. 3 at his home in Hartselle, Ala. He was 87.
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SBC president
@bellevuepastor
releases statement on Patterson, racial diversity, how Southern Baptists can pray
@swbts
#sbcam18
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SBC Chaplain (CPT) Logan Lair recently baptized more than 150 U.S. Army soldiers as a part of summer chapel services during basic training in Fort Leonard Wood, Mo.
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BREAKING:
@NAMB_SBC
announces record-breaking Annie Armstrong Easter Offering of $68.9 million.
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Army base sees 1,400 salvations since March. 'God is doing great things at Fort Leonard Wood'
@NAMB_SBC
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Pro-life advocate
@AbbyJohnson
urges believers to 'work to save each and every one' in talk at
@UnionUniversity
;
@univofmobile
,
@Ouachita
see strong enrollment growth
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.
@SBCExecComm
unanimously elects
@pastorrolland
as its first African American chairman.
Outgoing chair
@PastorMikeStone
calls the unopposed election “a wonderful and historic moment.”
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@SEBTS
is celebrating an enrollment of more than 5,000 students and the highest year of financial giving in the school’s history, according to SEBTS President
@DannyAkin
.
The Seminary’s Trustees met on Oct. 11-12.
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Southern Baptist Convention Pastors’ Conference president Matt Henslee announced his intention to nominate Texas pastor Bart Barber for the office of SBC president at the upcoming SBC Annual Meeting in Anaheim, June 14-15, 2022.
#SBC22
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BREAKING: Ronnie Floyd announces resignation as president and CEO of
@SBCExecComm
effective Oct. 31.
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The Council of Seminary Presidents of the SBC has reaffirmed “with eagerness” the BFM’s status “as the doctrinal statement that unites and defines Southern Baptist cooperation and establishes the confessional unity of our Convention.”
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Super Bowl champion
@BenjaminSWatson
has long known the sanctity of human life.
It was instilled in him from his youth, when his mother miscarried his sibling, and accented by his wife’s two successive miscarriages before the birth of their twin boys.
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BREAKING: Clint Pressley has been elected as President of the Southern Baptist Convention.
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Oklahoma pastor Dusty Deevers is planning to nominate Tennessee pastor Jared Moore for SBC President at the 2024 SBC Annual Meeting. Moore is the senior pastor of Homesteads Baptist Church in Crossville, Tenn.
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Prestonwood Pregnancy Center, launched by Prestonwood Baptist Church in 1991, has opened its second location directly across from the largest Planned Parenthood abortion center in Dallas.
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Willy Rice, pastor of Calvary Church in Clearwater, Fla., will be nominated by Clint Pressley, pastor of Hickory Grove Baptist, for the president of the Southern Baptist Convention this summer at the 2022 SBC Annual Meeting in Anaheim, Calif.
#SBC22
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Oklahoma pastor Stephen Rummage, an author and preaching professor, was elected president of the 2024 SBC Pastors’ Conference by acclamation June 12 at the New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center.
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@bellevuepastor
,
@frankpagesbc
to visit site of church shooting; SBC offers to pay funeral expenses for 26 dead
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Abortion decline due to 'ceaseless advocacy & ministry of the pro-life community,' says
@drmoore
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“We are heartbroken, but also joyful. Joyful about him being home in Heaven with Jesus. Joyful that he will never again experience seizures, or a wheelchair, or medicines, or crying, or pain, or surgeries or suffering.”
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These days at Long Hollow Baptist Church (
@LongHollow
), interruptions aren’t considered bad.
The plan isn’t as crucial as the response. Things flow from a position of prayer, ultimately pointing toward Christ.
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"GOD FIRST!" U.S. Olympic swimmer Hunter Armstrong prioritizes faith, saying he can live without swimming, but not without God. His journey through ups and downs has only strengthened his belief.
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Willie McLaurin (
@williemclaurin
) will be the interim president and CEO of the
@SBCExecComm
.
Since 2020, McLaurin has served as the vice president for Great Commission relations and mobilization at the EC.
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The Southern Baptist Convention will soon consider final action on an amendment to the SBC Constitution stating that a cooperating Southern Baptist church “affirms, appoints, or employs only men as any kind of pastor or elder as qualified by Scripture.”
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Rebekah Ann Naylor, a longtime medical missionary to India, has been appointed distinguished professor of missions in the Roy J. Fish School of Evangelism and Missions at
@SWBTS
.
She is the first woman ever to hold such a position at the seminary.
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SBC president
@bellevuepastor
releases statement on Patterson, racial diversity, how Southern Baptists can pray
@swbts
#sbcam18
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@ronniefloyd
: 'We asked the Lord for a declarative showing ... Based on your call, I will be, this coming Sunday, resigning from' Cross Church 'and immediately taking the role of president-elect' of the EC.
#sbcec19
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Thousands of SBC annual meeting attendees committed to pray tonight: "Do you want me to go too" to the nations along with 79
@IMB_SBC
missionaries commissioned?
#sbcam18
@plattdavid
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Members of the
@SBCExecComm
voted for the waiving of attorney client privilege within the scope of an independent third-party investigation of the EC concerning the handling of sexual abuse claims.
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Southern Baptist Convention Executive Committee Chairman Philip Robertson announced to EC members Friday (Aug. 18) that Jonathan Howe will take over the role of interim EC president and CEO following the sudden resignation of Willie McLaurin on Thursday.
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On Thursday, Texas Baptist Men distributed nearly 5,000 meals in Ashkelon, Israel, the coastal city near the Gaza border.
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SBC President
@jdgreear
has announced that the theme for the 2021 Annual Meeting will be "We Are Great Commission Baptists."
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'It's rated R because the MPAA sort of stumbled backwards into the truth, admitting that abortion is violent.'
@AbbyJohnson
@UnplannedMovie
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"I want to lead Southern Baptist churches to put evangelism back on the front burner again."
@johnnymhunt
@NAMB_SBC
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Messengers to the 2023 Southern Baptist Convention have upheld the EC's decision that Fern Creek Baptist in Louisville, Ky., Freedom Church in Vero Beach, Fla., and Saddleback Church in Lake Forest, Calif., are not in friendly cooperation with the SBC.
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.
@BethMooreLPM
brings 'Living Water' to grieving Fla. community on conference's 20th anniversary
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A former SBC seminary president is calling for the Convention to “repent, reset and recommit to its founding missional identity.”
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The EC adopted a recommendation that the SBC Constitution be amended to deem a church not in "friendly cooperation with the Convention" if it is "determined by the Executive Committee to have evidenced indifference in addressing sexual abuse."
#sbcec19
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BREAKING:
@MSBaptists
state exec Shawn Parker calls for changes to the Mississippi state flag.
“It’s a symbol of something we do not need to be a part of.”
More later today at Baptist Press.
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In 2023, 35 out of 41 Southern Baptist state conventions reported increases in baptisms from the previous year.
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@ronniefloyd
: 'I will give my life ... in this next season -- 100 percent, from before daylight until exhaustion, until Jesus comes or until He calls me home.'
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.
@hbcharlesjr
would be first African American Pastors' Conf. president.
#sbc17
#SBCPC17
@SBCPastorsConf
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'... Claiming to believe in inerrancy does not have true meaning in mere affirmation; it must be backed up with a life of integrity lived out in humble submission and surrender. ...' --
@AdamGreenway
,
@SWBTS
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@rdland
: 'For the record, if I were still the head of the ERLC, I would have signed this statement. I would have been ashamed of myself if I had not signed it. This is the document that some SBC leaders are using as the reason to defund the ERLC.'
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When answering questions from Jim Nantz of CBS,
@BaylorMBB
head coach Scott Drew talked about the team’s culture.
"We play with a culture of J.O.Y.," he said. "That’s Jesus, Others then Yourself."
@Sports_Spectrum
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Incredibly sad news from the
@_SBTC
.
Church planter John Powell was tragically killed last night in a highway accident.
Please be in prayer for his wife (Katherine), their four kids, and their church (
@EBCNorthHouston
).
More info tomorrow at Baptist Press.
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.
@albertmohler
: 'I am honored by the announcement by Pastor H. B. Charles, and I will accept nomination as president of the Southern Baptist Convention in June.'
@hbcharlesjr
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10
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.
@DannyAkin
told trustees that the number of
@SEBTS
students has reached more than 5,600, making this the 13th consecutive year of record enrollment.
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Florida pastor
@WillyRice
gave Southern Baptists somewhat of an investment pitch Wednesday. Go for gold, silver and precious jewels, he said, not the wood, hay and straw that has its short-term advantages but little benefit in terms of longevity.
#SBC21
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'It's rated R because the MPAA sort of stumbled backwards into the truth, admitting that abortion is violent.'
@AbbyJohnson
@UnplannedMovie
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