Missouri Baptist Disaster Relief (MODR) has sent teams to California … not to clean up ash and debris left by widespread wildfires, but to sift through the ashes looking for anything that will bring help, hope and healing to the survivors.
Missouri
SBC’s Jeff Iorg speaks on ‘major change,’ urges ‘endurance’ during MBC’s Resound Summit
Testimonials about the blessings of the 2025 Resound Summit poured in almost immediately after the one-day conference was done. Attendees were “wowed” and one exclaimed, “I’ve been attending MBC conferences for 50 years. This certainly ranks as one of the best I’ve been to.”
National
DOJ closes investigation of SBC
The U.S. Department of Justice informed Southern Baptist Convention attorneys today (March 12) that its investigation into the SBC and its entities is closed. No sexual abuse-related charges were filed.
Columns
What’s the Mission?
Missouri Baptist Convention Executive Director Wes Fowler: “… [T]he Cooperative Program was never intended to become the mission. The Cooperative Program was designed from the very beginning to fund and support the mission!”
Apologetics
Glorification of the saints
In a manner of speaking, followers of Jesus are like the Memphis Belle. We make our way through perilous times as we live in a sinful and fallen world. We age, get sick, break bones, endure disappointment, suffer crushing defeats, and sometimes are persecuted for our faith. Christ doesn’t offer us an easy path to everlasting life, but in his work of salvation, he promises to bring us home one day and then fully restore us – body, soul, and spirit.
Global
Obedience in airport leads to new disciple
For more than 35 years, Tim Kunkel has served as an International Mission Board missionary in South America, serving with global missionary partners and other IMB missionaries. He travels often to other South American countries, including Uruguay and Argentina, from his home base in Chile.
Culture
Proposed bill would allow ministers to opt back in to Social Security
A bipartisan bill may give ministers who decided long ago to opt out of Social Security benefits the chance to change their minds.