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More 200 women came to The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary from nine states and Canada recently for a conference designed to train female leaders for ministry in the local church.

For Jon Pearce, this was no ordinary funeral.

He scarcely knew the deceased—a young girl—as she had been involved in the church’s Wednesday evening AWANA program for only a few weeks.

In a culture that has grossly perverted God’s ideals of sex and marriage, the church of the Lord Jesus Christ must champion these gifts according to God’s revealed plan, R. Albert Mohler Jr. said in a two-day lecture series at Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary.

Christians must move to a greater level of intensity in their prayer lives if they hope to see spiritual awakening occur in America, said prayer expert Gregory Frizzell at “A Great Commission Prayer Conference” at The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary.

Churches devoted to Jesus Christ must strive to break out of mediocrity and achieve unprecedented fruitfulness, according to a new book by Thom Rainer, dean of the Billy Graham School of Missions, Evangelism and Church Growth at The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary.

Churches must place greater emphasis on the discipline of biblical counseling in order to nurture believers to spiritual maturity, David Powlison said in chapel at The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary Feb. 3.

The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary is taking its Christian counseling department in a new direction, one built upon the sufficiency of Scripture and designed to train pastors to deal biblically with the needs of hurting people.

Students and faculty at The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary will send a team to assist with urgent tsunami relief projects in the Pacific Rim during the seminary’s spring reading days in April.

A genuine Gospel minister will receive the world’s scorn and not its praise by preaching the cross of Jesus Christ, R. Albert Mohler Jr. said Tuesday during the annual spring Convocation at The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary.

Harold Songer, who served as professor of New Testament interpretation at The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary from 1962-1992, died Jan. 23 in Louisville, Ky., at the age of 77.

Scripture affirms that God is absolutely sovereign over His creation.

Yet, human beings make choices every day, and God holds them morally responsible for these choices. How are believers to understand these two teachings in light of each other?

Where was God when an earthquake on the floor of the Indian Ocean triggered a tsunami that snuffed out the lives of thousands—many of them children—along the coast of South Asia the day after Christmas?