February 2, 2021 Stories

Disaster Relief team supplies woman with winter firewood

One Disaster Relief team didn’t wait for a crisis to meet a need. Eight members of the Mt. Salem/Wyaconda Southern Baptist Association spent Saturday morning, Jan. 16, cutting a fallen tree, splitting logs, and removing them from a rural cow pasture to supply firewood for a needy woman.

Task force releases report on Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission

A Southern Baptist  task force studying the effectiveness of the Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission (ERLC) issued its report, Feb. 1.

Pro-life miracle in Missouri

A Jan. 5 report by the Kansas-based Operation Rescue claims that Missouri is “in practice” free of surgical abortions. The same group, however, noted in another study that, while surgical abortions nationally are declining, the use of abortion pills are on the rise throughout the U.S.

The witness of Paul to Christ’s deity

Although Paul likely had no personal encounters with Jesus prior to the crucifixion, he meets Jesus in dramatic fashion on the road to Damascus after Christ’s resurrection (Acts 9:1-9). Paul’s conversion, testimony, and epistles bear evidence of his conviction that Jesus was, and is, divine.

Find this hard to swallow?

Our salvation was purchased by Jesus’ death on the cross, once and for all. There’s no saving work to work that God hasn’t already worked. ... Some might find that hard to swallow.

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