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Kelley to NOBTS grads: Be hope-bearers for a hurting world

May 24, 2016

By Marilyn Stewart, NOBTS Communications NEW ORLEANS – New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary President Chuck Kelley challenged the school’s 2016 graduates to rely on the certainty of God’s love as they bring hope to a hurting world. “His love will never loosen its grip on you,” Kelley said at the May 14 graduation ceremony. “Whatever you go through, remember the love of God always triumphs in the end.” REMAIN COMMITTED Kelley acknowledged some graduates may have turned down other, more lucrative career paths to answer God’s call to theological education and ministry, and but he said they must focus on “the love of God” that drew them to seminary in the first place. Consider the “unspeakable sacrifice” of Christ, Kelley said, adding that while other religions have altars and sacrifices of incense, grain or even animals, only the Christian faith has “God himself as the sacrifice.” Going further, Kelley said the cross of Christ, the “centerpiece of the New Testament,” won salvation and eternal life for any person who comes seeking forgiveness, regardless of past sin and failure. “That is good news,” Kelley said. “God must love us because of what God did for us.” Continuing, Kelley caused an obvious moment of serious … [Read more...]

LBF trustees discuss ‘free money’ and other updates

May 24, 2016

By Jerry Love, LBF Communications Louisiana Baptist Foundation Board of Trustees met for their second quarterly meeting of the year at the Louisiana Baptist Building, April 26, 2016, with the morning dedicated to meetings by the investment committee and operating committee and the afternoon spent in general session by the entire body to consider committee reports and other business. INVESTMENT COMMITTEE Jim Prince, trustee from Lafayette, chaired the morning investment committee meeting, which included a report by Barbara Bell, certified public accountant and controller for the Foundation. She reviewed the account holdings for the first quarter of the year, stating assets under management as of March 31, 2016, were $167,840,414.05, an increase of approximately $3.4 million since the end of 2015. Bell explained the increase as a result of strong deposit activity. Investment returns for the major components of the LBF portfolio were reviewed by Jim Prince, who gave the following information as the official data calculated for the end of the quarter March 31, 2016: Short Term Fund:  0.55% Annualized Yield Fixed Income Fund:  2.11% Total Return Equity Fund:  -0.51% Total Return The Group Investment Fund which is comprised of … [Read more...]

Hollywood to Haughton, DR volunteers aided Louisianans

May 24, 2016

By Brian Blackwell & Philip Timothy, Baptist Message For the past 25 years, Liz Landers has cooked for some of Hollywood’s most notable actors. But since late March, Landers’ kitchen has been at First Baptist Church in Haughton, preparing meals for Southern Baptist Disaster Relief volunteers stationed there. A former resident of Slidell, Landers said her house was severely damaged by Hurricane Katrina in 2005, and that she feels this was a way she could give back to disaster relief volunteers who helped her restore her home. According to Louisiana Baptist Disaster Relief leaders, almost every meal served to the hundreds of volunteers working out of First Baptist Haughton has been planned and prepared by Landers. Landers shared with the Louisiana Baptist Message her day during the flood recovery efforts regularly started at 4:30 a.m. and ended around 7:30 p.m. “When the flooding happened I knew I had to do something,” said Landers, a member of Broadmoor Baptist Church in Shreveport. “I can never repay what they did for me after Katrina but the best I can do is try.” Landers, who prepared her last meal at First Baptist Haughton May 12, is among hundreds of volunteers, many from across the United States, who have helped … [Read more...]

Louisiana Notables

May 24, 2016

ON THE MOVE James Brantley, wife Letha, Bryan is the new pastor at Mt. Hope Baptist Church, Oakdale. Joe Dunn retires as senior pastor from Bethlehem Baptist Church, Albany. Kimberly, husband Wes, Aguillard is the new Children’s Minister at First Baptist Church, Pineville. Jerry Elgin is the interim pastor at Pilgrim Home Baptist Church, Benton. Ryan Perry resigns as youth pastor at Trinity Heights Baptist Church, Shreveport. Bill Stroud is the new pastor at Caddo Prairie Baptist Church, Hosston. Susan, husband Steve, Brown is the new children’s minister at Eastwood Baptist Church, Haughton. Wayne Dubose is the interim pastor at Cook Baptist Church, Ruston John Lary is the new pastor at Calvary Baptist Church, Shreveport. Ryan Sidhom resigned as youth pastor at First Baptist Church, Vivian. IN REMEMBERANCE Nathan Dyer, 82, died May 10. He was employed with the Louisiana Baptist Convention from Jan. 1, 1981 until his retirement on June 30, 1998. He served as an Associate Maintenance Director at Tall Timbers. Please be in prayer for his family. HOMECOMING Faith Baptist Church, Livingston: 26th Homecoming and a 10th anniversary celebration of Trey Cowell as pastor, May 29 at 10:30 a.m. A reception will follow morning … [Read more...]

Church start revitalizes founding congregation

May 24, 2016

By Brian Blackwell, Message Staff Writer WEST MONROE -- Good Hope Baptist Church of West Monroe was an integral partner in founding Fair Park Baptist Church in 1949, but as the years passed the West Monroe congregation declined. Still, even with few in number, the people of Good Hope desired to see the Gospel spread in their community. Through the leading of the Holy Spirit and the vision and direction of Fair Park’s Pastor Waymond Warren, Fair Park set out to help their founding church. For about a year, Fair Park sent members to lead music and preach on a weekly basis at Good Hope. But after a while the smaller congregation expressed a desire for stability in the pulpit. At that time, Good Hope moved their services from 11 a.m. to 8 a.m. to allow Fair Park Pastor Warren and Minister of Worship Darris Waren to lead services at Good Hope and have time to return to Fair Park, about 2 miles from Good Hope, for the 10 a.m. worship there. Fair Park also helped with outreach activities -- such as a fall festival, a live nativity at Christmas and a community parade -- to bring others from the community onto the Good Hope campus. As time passed, the two congregations began to feel like one church, and that led to a vote to merge … [Read more...]

Passion for the Word ignites at state Bible Drill

May 24, 2016

By Holly Jo Linzay, Regional reporter PINEVILLE – Excitement soared as contenders in the state Bible Drill competition lined up, listened as a Scripture reference was called out, furiously flipped pages in their Bibles and stepped forward ready to respond. “You can see a passion for the Word in these students’ competing, and seeing that fires up my spirit,” said Jennifer Thomas, who was attending the State Tournament for Youth and High School Bible Drill & Speakers’ Tournament for the first time. This year’s event was held April 30 at First Baptist Church in Pineville. The Bible Drill competition is part of a discipleship program designed to assist youth in developing useful skills and knowledge of the Bible. During the tournament, participants compete in tests of their knowledge about the books of the Bible, basic Scripture references, different approaches to the plan of salvation and Scripture references relating to key beliefs and doctrinal convictions. Chloe Whitehead, a ninth-grade student from First Baptist Church in Gonzales, has competed for the last six years in the Bible Drill tournament. “It’s been a fun way to learn the Scripture and to have the answers for different questions that even I have had growing up,” … [Read more...]

EXCLUSIVE: Evangelical leaders to quiz Trump on faith and values

May 21, 2016

By Todd Starnes, Fox News Donald Trump has agreed to meet privately with some of the nation’s most prominent Evangelical leaders – a meeting seen as critical to garnering support from social conservatives, Fox News has learned. “Our goal is to be able to have a conversation that could lead to a better understanding of what Donald Trump has to offer to the country,” said Family Research Council President Tony Perkins. Perkins is one of the key conservative leaders spearheading the gathering – set for June 21 in New York City. Perkins, along with Bill Dallas of United in Purpose, worked with Dr. Ben Carson to arrange the meeting. As many as 500 conservative leaders from around the nation are expected to attend the invitation-only event. The meeting was convened by a who’s who among Evangelicals – including Southern Baptist Convention President Ronnie Floyd, James Dobson, Ralph Reed, Penny Nance, Bob McEwen, Tim Wildmon of the American Family Association, Kelly Shackleford of First Liberty, and mega-church pastors Jack Graham and Ed Young. “I want to be actively supportive of a candidate who can help turn this nation around,” Perkins told me. “With Trump – I’m not there yet. I hope to be there – but I’m not there … [Read more...]

NAMB’s Kevin Ezell denies confidential ‘Cooperation Agreements’ are ‘gag orders’

May 20, 2016

By Joni B Hannigan, Christian Examiner ALPHARETTA, Ga. (Christian Examiner) – Kevin Ezell, president of the Southern Baptist Convention North American Mission Board, May 17 refuted accusations that "Cooperation Agreements" signed by state executives are "gag orders," but instead said they are "simply a commitment of charity and trust." Last week, several Southern Baptist state leaders accused NAMB of linking financial support from the national entity to the agreements that were said to include a non-disclosure agreement. NAMB declined to respond to Christian Examiner's request for comment, but posted an article on the organization's website May 17. To read the rest of the article, click here. … [Read more...]

More state government contracts

May 20, 2016

By John Kennedy, State Treasurer Louisiana state government has at least 18,710 consultants on its payroll. I say "at least" because the sad fact is, according to the Legislative Auditor, the state doesn't even know the exact number of consultants it has, because there is no central database listing all of them. Furthermore, the database we do have has been changed by the Division of Administration to make it less transparent. Many of the state's consulting contracts could be eliminated, reduced or given to our universities in order to save taxpayer money. Below are a few of the consulting contracts you are paying for or have paid for in the past. There are many more: * Contract #2000121024; "Educational Guidance Services Contract;" New Orleans South Africa; $1,670,421. * Contract #702019; "Provide spiritual and religious guidance to inmates at Elayn Hunt Correctional Center and Louisiana Correctional Institute for Women and serve as imam (Muslim spiritual adviser);" Haneef Hanee Uqdah; $39,980. * Contract #733168; "Accompany and coordinate the travel of university officials to China for business meetings and serve as logistics coordinator and translator in China;" United Matrix International; $49,999.99. * Contract … [Read more...]

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FIRST PERSON: As goes the family, so goes the culture

By Gene Mills, Louisiana Family Forum president BATON ROUGE, La. (LBM) – Public policy matters, especially regarding the health and growth of families, the basic building block of any flourishing society. As we have seen throughout history, as goes the family, so goes the culture. Unfortunately, for too long … Read More

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