Love Worth Finding: ROGERS WILL OFFER ADVICE IN BIBLE FOR LIFE COLUMN
Dr. Adrian Rogers, pastor of Bellevue Baptist Church, will write a Bible-based advice column starting next month in The Commercial Appeal.The Bible for Life will appear on Sundays in the Living section and will answer readers' questions about family, relationships and other everyday life issues.Rogers, a three-time president of the Southern Baptist Convention, leads a congregation of 26,000 and is seen and heard around the world on TV and radio through the Love Worth...
Love Worth Finding: The Rev. Adrian Rogers, pivotal Baptist leader, 74
The Rev. Adrian Rogers, who led a conservative takeover of the Southern Baptist Convention and became its three-time president, died Tuesday in Memphis. He was 74. His death was announced by Baptist Press News and by Rogers' Love Worth Finding ministry. Rogers was hospitalized earlier this month with pneumonia and cancer, his ministry's Web site said. Rogers was elected president in 1979 as part of the 16.3 million-member convention, which is the...
Love Worth Finding: In The News
Bellevue Baptist Church Rev. Rogers has surgery Rev. Adrian Rogers underwent surgery Monday to remove a section of his colon, a spokesman for Love Worth Finding ministries said.The surgery was performed after doctors discovered a cancerous polyp during routine testing. Rogers was in stable condition and he is expected to make a full recovery."It was a textbook procedure and there were no surprises," said Bill Skelton, executive vice president of the...
Love Worth Finding: Pastor called 'godfather' of conservative takeover,
ADRIAN ROGERS — 1931 - 2005
MEMPHIS, Tenn. — The Rev. Adrian Rogers, a three-time president of the Southern Baptist Convention and leader of a conservative takeover of the denomination, the nation's second largest, died early Tuesday in Memphis. He was 74. His death was announced by Baptist Press News and by Rogers' Love Worth Finding ministry. Officials of the Nashville-based Southern Baptist Convention Executive Committee didn't immediately return calls seeking...