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Johnny Hunt, president of the Southern Baptist Convention and pastor of First Church of Woodstock, Ga., extolled the Word of God during chapel at Southwestern Seminary, Feb. 25.
“You are beyond capacity to change anybody,” Hunt said, “but I’ll tell you what I’ve seen: I’ve seen the Gospel, the Word of God, the revelation of the [...]

Should religion and business mingle? American culture seems to be increasingly willing to say “yes.” In the last 15 years, two major business periodicals, Business Week and Fortune, devoted cover stories to the growing interest to link spirituality with the workplace. These articles, while a bit perplexed about what to make of the phenomenon, [...]

During the spring of 2005, Oklahoma Baptist University business professors began plans to fill a void. As the horizons of business were broadening and the complexity of the issues faced in the business world thickened, these professors saw the need for a graduate program that could provide businesspeople the wisdom and expertise to engage a [...]

An extraordinary musical talent, a quick wit, an infectious laugh, a lovable spirit and a genuine heart for the work of the Lord all describe one of the greatest church musicians ever produced in Oklahoma.
Max D. Lyall, noted concert pianist, composer and music professor, died Feb. 18 in Oklahoma City. He was 71.
Lyall’s list of [...]

by James A. Smith Sr.
NASHVILLE , Tenn.—When Southern Baptists meet in Orlando June 15-16, they will be faced with the choice of retreating to the past, preserving the present or rising to a future of advancing the Gospel to the nations, Great Commission Resurgence Task Force Chairman Ronnie Floyd told the SBC Executive Committee [...]

by Tammi Reed Ledbetter
NASHVILLE, Tenn.—Great Commission Resurgence Task Force (GCRTF) Chairman Ronnie Floyd took questions in stride as reporters wondered how GCRTF recommendations would impact and possibly upset state conventions and their working relationship with the North American Mission Board.
After delivering a passionate half-hour appeal before the Southern Baptist Convention Executive Committee on Feb. 22 [...]

PORT-AU-PRINCE,Haiti—When Sam Porter, disaster relief director for the Baptist General Convention of Oklahoma, notified physician Orby Butcher of Shawnee around 7:30 p.m., Sun., Jan. 31 that Oklahoma had been asked to send a medical team to Haiti, he acted quickly.
By 10:30 a.m. the next day, Butcher had recruited an eight-person team of three physicians, a [...]

PORT-AU-PRINCE,Haiti—Baptist General Convention of Oklahoma disaster relief director Sam Porter hoped to bring fresh water to thirsty Haitians by drilling new wells.
God had other plans.
After Oklahoma volunteers—joined by others from Alabama and Georgia— spent four days Feb. 9-12 hand drilling to a depth around 21 feet at the Eglise Chretienne de Brache (Christian Church of [...]

by Tim Ellsworth
EDITOR’S NOTE: BPSports editor Tim Ellsworth is in Vancouver for Baptist Press’ coverage of the Winter Olympics.
VANCOUVER (BP)—Thirty years later, Mark Johnson still wonders at times whether it really happened.
Was he really a part of what is widely considered the greatest moment in U.S. Winter Olympics history? Did he really score two goals [...]

“Amid the heaping pile of shattered hopes and broken dreams of schools started and institutions shuttered, God planted a vision in the hearts of Oklahoma Baptists” for higher education that no tribulation could derail during its 100-year history, said Paul R. Corts, during OBU’s Founders’ Day Centennial Chapel celebration Feb. 10, in Raley Chapel
Corts, president [...]