Archive for January 2016
Preparation for ministry is preparation for martyrdom, Patterson says
Southwestern Seminary held its spring convocation on Jan. 21, exactly 491 years after the Anabaptist movement began in the home of Felix Manz in Zurich, Switzerland. On Jan. 21, 1525, during a Bible study in Manz’s home, George Blaurock asked Conrad Grebel to baptize him with the “true Christian baptism” upon his profession of faith.…
Read MoreConference provides opportunity to ‘sit down,’ witness ‘amazing’ work of God
For decades, a photographer for the San Francisco Chronicle walked out of his office each day and prayed that God would show him what he needed to show someone else in the next day’s newspaper. “Lead me to that place, that moment, that person, that subject,” he would pray, keeping his eyes open for the…
Read MoreIMB prayer warrior, SWBTS alumna Catherine Walker dies
Catherine Walker, who earned her Doctor of Religious Education from Southwestern Seminary in 1957, died Jan. 7 in Richmond, Va. She was 100 years old. Walker was a Southern Baptist missionary in Asia from 1946-1980, first serving in China and later moving to Indonesia, becoming one of the first faculty members of the Indonesian Baptist…
Read MoreSemester-long commitment to prayer, evangelism results in salvation
As many professors at Southwestern Seminary do, Matt Queen, L.R. Scarborough Chair of Evangelism (“Chair of Fire”), leads his students in prayer for the lost at the beginning of each class. During the fall semester, one of his evangelism classes specifically prayed for Chieri, a Japanese student studying English at the University of Texas at…
Read MoreGTI partnership brings theological education to ‘remote’ city of Brazil
Although it is located in the middle of the Amazon rainforest and is accessed primarily by boat or plane, the northern Brazilian city of Manaus is hardly remote. The capital of the state of Amazonas, Manaus has a population of more than 2 million, making it the seventh most populace city in the country, and…
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