October 14, 2019 Stories

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.”

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."

Michigan adoption agency wins in court

LANSING, Mich. (BP) – Faith-based adoption and foster care agencies seeking to practice their religious beliefs gained an important victory Thursday (Sept. 26) in Michigan.

California’s new abortion-on-campus law

California will be the first state to require all public universities to offer abortion-inducing pills to students on campus. The bill signed into law by Gov. Gavin Newsome, a Democrat, on Oct. 11 takes effect in 2023.

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.

Great Commission Conference ‘put on hold’ by MBC for 2020

“I remember a day when conference attendance was well over 1,000 people,” he added. “In recent years it has dwindled significantly, which begs the question: Why?"

From desert to ocean: East Asian believer celebrates journey to faith

“God used those 20 years to make me hungry for Him,” she says. “It’s like I came from a desert into an ocean. So, what can I do but praise Him? I believe He was with me even when I didn’t know Him.”  

‘Tell the world that Jesus saves’ – Nearly 300 join Freeway Ministries’ Springfield ‘Save Our City March’

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.

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