Archive for December 2017
Annual Keyboards & Carols performance features ‘Southwestern Night’
This year’s Keyboards & Carols at Christmas featured 16 Steinway pianos, 204 hand-lit candles, two Kanstul herald fanfare trumpets, nearly 200 Southwestern singers, and 46 pianists ranging in age from preschool children to seminary students to seminary faculty. These elements combined to produce a musical experience that covered the entire gamut of musical styles, from…
Read MoreGod’s perfect timing evident in latest evangelism church partnership
When Southwestern students partnered with Hallmark Baptist Church for the latest evangelism partnership, they did not know what to expect that day. Would people be open to a Gospel conversation? Would people even open their doors? Like any evangelism effort, however, students and church members trusted that God would work in each interaction. When teams…
Read MoreGod’s perfect timing evident in latest evangelism church partnership
When Southwestern students partnered with Hallmark Baptist Church for the latest evangelism partnership, they did not know what to expect that day. Would people be open to a Gospel conversation? Would people even open their doors? Like any evangelism effort, however, students and church members trusted that God would work in each interaction. When teams…
Read MoreSBC task force concludes second meeting
The second meeting of the Southern Baptist Convention’s evangelism task force concluded on the campus of Southwestern Seminary, Dec. 5. This was the second of three meetings as the group—appointed at the SBC annual meeting in June—seeks to prepare a final report on evangelism and soul-winning to present at the 2018 SBC meeting in Dallas.…
Read MoreJournal of Theology examines acts that brought Reformation to fruition
This fall marks the 500th anniversary of Martin Luther nailing his 95 theses to the Castle Church door in Wittenberg, launching the Protestant Reformation. Southwestern professor Madison Grace says, “By this one act, a movement was born, a leader was formed, and European society itself was turned upside down.” In the latest issue of the…
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