There’s a longstanding debate over which knock-knock joke is the best of all time. I would like to call it a knock-knock knock-down-drag-out, but I’m afraid you’d stop reading and I hate to lose readers in the first paragraph. We can’t argue that there are definitely knock-knock joke staples. I can give just a word or two of some of these and you hear the entire joke in your head. Like that yodelly one with “little old lady who.” Or how about “Boo who?” “You don’t have to cry about it, … [Read more...]
Bethel Baptist Association on mission in El Salvador
AHAUCHAPAN, El Salvador – Eight people from Northeast Missouri’s Bethel Baptist Association worked on mission in Ahauchapan, El Salvador, in March. It was the ninth year, and this involved college students and one soon-to-be college student. Bethel Director of Missions Al Groner said usually it has been retired or senior people making the trip. “We had seven in out team and one joined us there. We had a construction team and an evangelistic team,” Groner said. The construction team … [Read more...]
Sudan civil conflict destroying churches, displacing Christians
KHARTOUM, Sudan (BP) — At least four churches have been destroyed and a congregation directly assaulted in Sudan, signaling the earliest reports of religious suffering in the fight for governmental control that erupted April 15. While it’s not clear whether the damages are the result of targeted religious persecution in the country that has failed to find democracy through decades of civil war, religious liberty advocates have expressed concern. Todd Nettleton of Voice of the Martyrs … [Read more...]
Fusion Program commissions 12 missionary teams for overseas service
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (MBTS) – Spurgeon College hosted a commissioning ceremony for their Fusion Cohorts on April 25, celebrating twelve missionary teams to Africa and high security locations throughout the Middle East and South Asia. Families and friends gathered to celebrate the accomplishments of cohort participants and commission them to serving overseas this summer. Since 2005, Fusion has existed to equip believers for a lifetime of Kingdom service by training students to make disciples … [Read more...]
More than 2,300 Kenyans profess faith in Christ
‘Ball of Many Colors’ proves an effective evangelism tool NAIROBI, Kenya – Evangelism doesn’t have to be complicated. It can be as simple as a conversation in the street, or even kicking around a soccer ball in the African plains. That was what Keith Vawter, director of missions for Wright-Douglas-Ozark Baptist Association, found out on a recent mission trip to Kenya. Joining with Alan David, pastor of First Baptist, Bonne Terre, and Jeff Everard, pastor of First Baptist, New Offenburg, … [Read more...]
Prayer fostered life amid cancer battle
‘God isn’t finished with me,’ Baptist Homes' Harrison says JEFFERSON CITY – When a life crisis hovered over Rodney Harrison, he was settled into “going home” to be with Jesus. But prayer changed everything and allowed him to serve His Savior in many more ways. In June, 2017, Harrison was dean of doctoral studies at Midwestern Baptist Theological Seminary and interim pastor at Parkway Baptist in Kansas City. Harrison had a 105-degree fever. The medical community was treating him for a … [Read more...]
Good Friday drama helps draw Easter crowds to Raytown church
RAYTOWN – There is no resurrection without crucifixion, and there is no Easter without Good Friday. That reality was on display at Connection Point Church, here, as they presented a dramatic reenactment of the last supper with Jesus and His disciples. “Our church has done a lot of drama and reenactments in the past,” Pastor Brian Stone said. “Covid kind of slowed that down with some of our special events, but Good Friday was a great opportunity to do that and bring it back.” Why … [Read more...]
‘Good people, good workers’: Glenallen residents blessed by Missouri DR volunteers
GLENALLEN – In the early morning hours of April 5, a tornado touched down in the Southeast Missouri town of Glenallen, beginning its path of destruction on the farm of Stanley and Kim Long. It crossed fields, passing by cows with newborn calves, ripping out trees and destroying farm outbuildings before hitting the adjoining family farm. Brenda Kay Long, Stanley’s mother, was thankfully taking shelter at his home. The tornado, classified by the National Weather Service as an EF-2, … [Read more...]
Jackson County law criminalizes gospel’s call to conversion
“I know a leading psychiatrist who thinks it a bad week if he does not help two or three of his patients to (place faith in) Christ,” the Christian apologist and Oxford don Michael Green once wrote. Unfortunately, should that psychiatrist ever move to Kansas City, Mo., he could be the target of government prosecution for sharing his faith with patients – particularly, if he shares the gospel with children confused about their gender. As previously reported in The Pathway (here and here), … [Read more...]
Article XII of the BFM: Education
Following is another in a series of columns on The Baptist Faith & Message 2000. Article XII of The Baptist Faith & Message 2000 reads: “Christianity is the faith of enlightenment and intelligence. In Jesus Christ abide all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge. All sound learning is, therefore, a part of our Christian heritage. The new birth opens all human faculties and creates a thirst for knowledge. Moreover, the cause of education in the Kingdom of Christ is co-ordinate with … [Read more...]
BFM Article XI: Evangelism, missions
Following is another in a series of columns on The Baptist Faith & Message 2000. Article XI of The Baptist Faith & Message 2000 reads: “It is the duty and privilege of every follower of Christ and of every church of the Lord Jesus Christ to endeavor to make disciples of all nations. The new birth of man’s spirit by God’s Holy Spirit means the birth of love for others. Missionary effort on the part of all rests thus upon a spiritual necessity of the regenerate life, and is … [Read more...]
Divided high court debates rights of religious employees
WASHINGTON (BP) – The U.S. Supreme Court’s oral arguments Tuesday (April 18) in a religious freedom case offered no clear indication whether it intends to revisit a previous decision and strengthen the right of workers to practice their beliefs without penalty. In arguments approaching two hours, the justices considered a U.S. Postal Service (USPS) employee’s contention that his belief in observing Sunday as the Sabbath was not properly accommodated. The high court is contemplating … [Read more...]
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