Apologists needed to train churches, MBAN’s Hoffmann says JEFFERSON CITY – Last month, The Pathway interviewed Wil Hoffmann, a Missouri Baptist Convention (MBC) executive board member and currently president of the Missouri Baptist Apologetics Network (MBAN). Hoffmann, pastor of Senior Pastor, Rising Sun Baptist Church, Auxvasse, shared about the significance of apologetics and the MBAN’s ministry efforts. Currently, the MBAN has more than two dozen members, equipped to share with … [Read more...]
Comfort flows from life, death, resurrection of Christ
Words of comfort come easy to most of us – at least, as the saying goes, until we suffer a toothache ourselves or stub our own toes. But one wellspring of comfort never runs dry – namely, the life, death and resurrection of the Lord Jesus Christ. Through the ages, Christians have sought comfort amid suffering by remembering the truths we celebrate on Christmas, Good Friday and Easter. Since Jesus lived and died for them, these Christians saw themselves in His story of suffering. In turn, … [Read more...]
Missouri Senate passes ‘SAFE Act,’ aimed to nix gender transition procedures for minors
Bills opposing transgender agenda pass Missouri Senate, now heading to Missouri House JEFFERSON CITY – The Missouri Senate passed two bills protecting children and students from harm caused by the LGBTQ+ agenda, March 23. Both bills are now on their way to the state’s House of Representatives for approval. Senate Bill 49 (SB 49) – known as the “Save Adolescents from Experimentation” (SAFE) Act – prohibits gender transition surgeries on minors. Senate Bill 39 requires that student … [Read more...]
MBC executive board sets 2024 CP, missions offering goals
EDITOR'S NOTE: Read more news from the latest Missouri Baptist Convention executive board meeting here: "Yeats asks MBC executive board to begin search for new executive director." JEFFERSON CITY – During their meeting here, March 6-7, the Missouri Baptist Convention’s (MBC) executive board recommended 2024 goals for the Cooperative Program and other statewide offerings. The board set the 2024 CP goal at $15 million, while setting statewide offering goals as follows: $760,000 for the … [Read more...]
Even Pi Day points us to the Alpha and Omega
Many moons ago, after surviving an algebra class in my freshman year of college, I bid adieu to mathematics and intended never to take up the subject again. Even in childhood, when for a short time I dreamed vaingloriously of studying astrophysics in the footsteps of the great Einstein himself, I disliked math – naturally, since few people love subjects they struggle to understand. On my wall hung a poster of Einstein, with words of hope for me: “Do not worry about your difficulties in … [Read more...]
Yeats asks MBC executive board to begin search for new executive director
JEFFERSON CITY – After 12 years of service, Missouri Baptist Convention (MBC) Executive Director John Yeats asked the MBC executive board, March 6, to form a transition team to search for his successor. “In the context of the goodness of the Lord and His blessing on us, I am announcing tonight a recommendation that we begin a time of leadership transition,” Yeats told executive board members, after describing how God continues to move through Missouri Baptists. “I am in my 12th year, … [Read more...]
ERLC’s Leatherwood interviews former MBC president about racial reconciliation
NASHVILLE – The Southern Baptist Convention's (SBC) Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission (ERLC) recently released a video featuring Missouri Baptist pastor Jon Nelson, immediate past president of the Missouri Baptist Convention (MBC). In the video, ERLC President Brent Leatherwood converses with Nelson about "the important issue of racial unity in the Southern Baptist Convention," according to an email announcement from the ERLC. "In this video," the announcement adds, "Jon … [Read more...]
Jackson County’s proposed ‘conversion therapy’ ban threatens First Amendment rights, attorney says
KANSAS CITY – A proposed ban on so-called “conversion therapy” in Missouri’s Jackson County may threaten the First Amendment rights of licensed doctors and counselors who don’t affirm the county government's views on the LGBTQ+ lifestyle, according to a Kansas City attorney. If Jackson County’s nine-member legislature passes proposed ordinance No. 5711, it will become the first county in Missouri to ban what they call “conversion therapy” for minors, according to Fox News. According … [Read more...]
‘Revive us again’: More than 25 HLGU students find Christ
Even as spiritual awakening moves across college campuses around the nation, Hannibal-LaGrange University experienced an outpouring of the Spirit during its spiritual emphasis week earlier this month. More than two dozen students professed faith in Christ, and many others were challenged to grow in their walk with Christ. “After 5 years of working in Student Life at HLGU, I never thought I would see the week that we just experienced on our campus. Though we often prayed for such things, it … [Read more...]
SBU’s DeWitt: Lewis’ Abolition of Man offers ‘prophetic warning’ for a relativistic age
BOLIVAR – Daniel DeWitt is a senior fellow at Southwest Baptist University (SBU) in Bolivar, where he leads the Center for Worldview and Culture. He is the host of the “Mere Caffeination” podcast and author of numerous books, including his forthcoming book, C.S. Lewis: The Writer Who Found Joy. This summer, DeWitt will help lead an SBU trip to Ireland and England. Participants will visit key sites from Lewis’s life – from his childhood home in Ireland, to the real lamppost and park that … [Read more...]
Christ remains committed to the mission, but are we?
More than half of the world’s current population has little chance of ever hearing the good news that Jesus saves all those who place their trust in Him. Late last year, International Mission Board President Paul Chitwood reminded Southern Baptists of this heartbreaking reality. “More lost people will die today and enter hell,” he wrote, “than on any day in human history.” The exact figure numbers in the hundreds of thousands – every day. Chitwood explained that, out of 11,946 people … [Read more...]
Missouri DR partnering in Turkey following earthquake
JEFFERSON CITY - Missouri Disaster Relief (MODR) has called Missouri Baptists to pray and give as they build relief partnerships in response to an earthquake in Turkey and Syria that has killed more than 35,000 people and injured many more. Last fall, Missouri Baptists voted to create a partnership between MODR and SEND Relief in Turkey and Central Asia. MODR is now working with a partner in Turkey to provide water purification and humanitarian assistance in the aftermath of the … [Read more...]
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