Equipping the persecuted, reaching the lost: Southern The nationals thronged around the Americans as they walked the streets. Others hung out of windows or pushed to the edge of rooftops to catch a glimpse of the foreigners and hear what they had to say.

What the Americans said -- in the Muslim-saturated community -- was Jesus Christ died for sinful men that they might repent and receive eternal life.
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For one Southern Baptist Theological Seminary graduate, recent flooding in the Midwest proved that a steady diet of biblical truth is the best medicine for hurting people.

“I told the congregation the Sunday before the flood, ‘You’re in one of two camps. You are suffering, or you’re going to suffer. That’s true of everybody here,’” Eric Schumacher, pastor of Northbrook Baptist Church in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, said. “And I said, ‘And the reason that I preach to you on the difficult doctrines that the Bible contains is because one day you’re going to be suffering. And I want you to have a foundation to stand on.’”
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The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary is mourning the loss of student Alan Rivers, who was killed Thursday morning in a motorcycle crash in Indianapolis, Ind.

Rivers, 52, a resident of Carmel, Ind., had begun pursuing a master of arts degree in missiology last December. Rivers surrendered to full-time ministry two years ago and had served as a deacon in Harvest Bible Chapel, a church plant that began last September in Indianapolis.
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Women have a natural desire to chat and fellowship, and now they can channel that desire to study the biblical book of John, according to a new book by Lorie Looney Keene, a women’s ministry leader at The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary.

In "Pull Up a Chair" (New Hope Publishers), Keene guides women through a 21-week group study of John’s Gospel. Each week participants read one chapter of John along with a brief study of the chapter and answer questions. Then participants meet together to discuss the study.
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The First Baptist Church of West Palm Beach, Fla., voted to call Jimmy Scroggins, dean of Boyce College, as its senior pastor earlier this month.

Scroggins has served as dean of Boyce, the undergraduate institution of The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, since January 2004 and Southern President R. Albert Mohler Jr. said the news is bittersweet.
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Fans of the “Albert Mohler Program” had the opportunity to see as well as hear the radio show during the 2008 annual meeting of the Southern Baptist Convention.

The nationally syndicated program, hosted by Southern Seminary President R. Albert Mohler Jr., broadcast live from the seminary’s booth at the SBC June 9-11.
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Maj. Gen. Douglas Carver, the U.S. Army’s chief of chaplains, received the 2008 Distinguished Alumnus Award June 11 at the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary luncheon during the Southern Baptist Convention annual meeting.

Attendees also heard a report from seminary President R. Albert Mohler Jr. and celebrated Mohler’s 15th anniversary as the school’s leader.
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As The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary approaches its 150th year of existence, its goal continues to be passing on the faith once for all delivered to the saints in service to the churches of the Southern Baptist Convention, said R. Albert Mohler Jr. at the SBC annual meeting June 11.

Delivering Southern's annual report, Mohler referenced the question posed in Luke 18:8: "When the Son of Man comes will He find faith on the earth?" Mohler said the question is not if Christ will have a church, but if that church will be faithful.
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For the next three years, The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary will partner with Baptists in eastern Canada to plant churches in one of North America’s most unreached corners.

Beginning Jan. 1, Southern’s Church Planting Center teamed up with the Canadian Convention of Southern Baptists (CCSB) for three years during which time Canadian Baptist leaders will recruit church planters from among seminary students. Participants will plant congregations in the provinces of Ontario, Quebec, New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, Prince Edward Island, Newfoundland/Labrador and a portion of Nunavut.
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It should be obvious that the main theme of the New Testament is God’s working out of redemption in Jesus Christ, but that central message is sometimes missing from biblical scholarship, Thomas R. Schreiner argues in his recently-released New Testament Theology.

The massive work New Testament Theology: Magnifying God in Christ (Baker) encompasses nearly 1,000 pages and unpacks the redemptive work of Christ and the inbreaking of God’s eternal kingdom with significant depth and detail. Schreiner serves as James Buchanan Harrison Professor of New Testament Interpretation and senior associate dean of the School of Theology at The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary.
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