Congress has given final approval to enshrining same-sex marriage in the law. The U.S. House of Representatives voted 258-169 for the Respect for Marriage Act (RMA) Thursday (Dec. 8), 10 days after the Senate approved the same legislation.
Missouri
MBC’s Historical Commission offers scholarships to students at Missouri Southern Baptist schools
Four $2000 Baptist Heritage scholarships are being offered to current and future students at Hannibal-LaGrange University, Hannibal; Missouri Baptist University, St. Louis; Southwest Baptist University, Bolivar; and now at the Spurgeon College, Kansas City.
National
Oregon church grows through evangelism
Alan Gayle keeps several “hooks in the water,” he says, in his quest to lead the church he’s pastored since 2004, Fairfield Baptist, to share God’s love with the people around them and throughout the world.
Columns
Lessons from a letter writer
Charles Spurgeon understood something many ministers fail to understand. Our call as Christian leaders includes challenging Christians to God honoring stewardship.
Apologetics
Our glorified bodies: Baptist Faith & Message, Article IV-D
“Resurrection is the apogee of personal glorification, for in it we shrug off the last vestiges of sin that have clung to our mortal bodies. In glorification, the effects of the Fall are fully and finally reversed.”
Global
Missionaries take gospel to global cities
In this Central Asian city, only about 0.01% of the population follows Christ. One IMB missionary sees a lot of beauty here, but what God continues to show him are neighborhoods filled with people in desperate need of the gospel.
Culture
Supreme Court debates website designer’s freedom of speech over same-sex marriage
The U.S. Supreme Court debated with lawyers at length Monday (Dec. 5) whether a state has the right to compel speech in the latest case involving the intersection of religious freedom and same-sex marriage.