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HONOLULU (ABP) -- A Canadian Baptist educator told delegates at the 20th Baptist World Congress July 30 in Honolulu that evangelicals in the West have tended to over-spiritualize Christ's mission to the poor and oppressed.
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HONOLULU (ABP) -- To be true to their heritage and principles, Baptists must continue the fight for religious liberty for all people, insisted Denton Lotz, who received the Baptist World Alliance’s Human Rights Award July 30 in Honolulu. |
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Avery and Shirley Willis
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BELLA VISTA, Ark. (ABP) -- Avery Willis, a former Southern Baptist missionary and administrator best known as developer of the MasterLife
discipleship materials used around the world, died July 30, nearly
eight months after being diagnosed with a rare form of leukemia. He was
76.
According to a journal
at the Caring Bridge website, Willis had been in remission before
becoming hospitalized with pneumonia in early July. Doctors determined
his leukemia had returned and he was too weakened to survive treatment.
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VATICAN CITY (ABP) -- This year our sanctuary choir and orchestra -- as they do every four years -- took an international choir tour. This time the setting was Europe, and they have sung in a variety of cathedrals as well as shared concerts in local churches and piazzas.
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HONOLULU (ABP) -- Preach Christ’s good news and proclaim freedom, seminary president Pablo Deiros challenged participants at the 20th Baptist World Congress in Honolulu July 29.
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HONOLULU (ABP) -- Baptists from across Canada and the United States examined seven key “shifts” July 29 that have had an impact on the North American Baptist Fellowship.
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HONOLULU (ABP) -- An American missions professor who served more than two decades in Indonesia and an Arab Baptist educator from Lebanon emphasized the need to reach out in love to Muslims during a July 29 session at the Baptist World Congress meeting in Honolulu.
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(ABP) -- When young pastors ask me for advice on self-care (insert uproarious laughter here) I always say that one very important part of survival in the trenches of ministry is getting a life. Outside the church.
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