The march was part of the annual “Save Our City” revival organized by Freeway Ministries, a Springfield-based outreach and discipleship ministry to ex-cons, drug addicts and other hard-to-reach people.
Missouri
Tractor, quilt show hauls in Centralia crowds
“It’s a way to let the local community be a community,” said Grandview pastor, Don Combs. “We were wanting to bring in all of our neighbors and folks from around the area to be able to spend time together and see friends we hadn’t seen for a while.”
National
New abortion clinic opens outside St. Louis
The 18,000-square-foot clinic cost approximately $7 million to build and is just 13 miles from St. Louis. The facility was converted from an existing building, using a shell company under the code name “Alaska” to avoid protesters or construction delays.
Columns
Our Baptist heritage: freedom of conscience
Thomas Helwys: “The King is a mortal man, and not God. Therefore, he has no power over the souls of his subjects; he has no power to make laws for their souls; he has no power to set spiritual Lords over them.”
Apologetics
The believer’s glorification
Glorification is the final stage in God’s work of salvation. It is the crowning achievement of sanctification, in which Christians are fully conformed to the image of Christ. It is the perfection of the body, rejoined with soul and spirit in resurrection, as well as the restoration of the universe to its original state.
Global
Southern Baptists engage in Tokyo’s 2020 Olympics, Rugby World Cup
TOKYO, Japan – The world will converge on Tokyo, Japan, twice in the span of a year for two international sporting events – this month for the 2019 Rugby World Cup and next summer for the 2020 Olympics.
Culture
No laughing matter: Joker’s dark content ‘dangerous,’ reviewers say
The new psychological thriller “Joker” is a “dangerous” movie that glorifies violence and could spark copycats, even if it does raise important questions about mental illness and society’s downtrodden, say faith-based reviewers who screened the film.