One of my favorite films, the musical classic “Fiddler on the Roof,” depicts the joys and sorrows of a small community of Jews living around the year 1905 in the fictional Ukrainian village of Anatevka. From sunrise to sunset, the endearing protagonist Tevye lives, with his kith and kin, like a fiddler on the roof, “trying to scratch out a pleasant simple tune without breaking his neck.” The film powerfully depicts the longing of these Jewish “strangers in a strange land,” exiled from the … [Read more...]
More than 100 saved at LIFE event in Sikeston
SIKESTON – More than 100 people professed faith in Christ during a LIFE Initiative outreach here last month. Nine churches in the area joined together to organize the outreach, which resulted in 101 recorded professions of faith and 30 other recorded spiritual decisions. Roughly 1,700 people from the community gathered at a school gym to watch bike and motorcycle stunts, but they also heard a clear presentation of the gospel. Though the outreach culminated in this large evangelism event, … [Read more...]
LIFE Outreach cultivates gospel-centered disciple-making, Bennett says
JEFFERSON CITY – For many years, Brad Bennett has used motorcycle and bike stunts to open doors for gospel witness, first through the Real Encounter evangelistic ministry and now in his role as Making Disciples director for the Missouri Baptist Convention (MBC). Bennett and other members of the MBC’s Making Disciples team now take ministry to Missouri Baptist churches through the LIFE Outreach Initiative, like the recent outreach in Sikeston that drew 1,700 people and resulted in more than … [Read more...]
Federer: ‘This country has a heritage of prayer’
Author Bill Federer featured at National Day of Prayer event at Missouri State Capitol JEFFERSON CITY – The leaders and the people of the United States have turned to God in prayer from the nation’s founding and throughout its history, William J. “Bill” Federer told Missourians gathered at the state Capitol for the National Day of Prayer, May 4. Federer is a nationally known speaker, best-selling author, and president of Amerisearch, Inc., a publishing company dedicated to researching … [Read more...]
Let us remember: ‘We are bound for the Promised Land’
More than 2 million people flocked to northern Italy in 2010 to take a rare glimpse at the Shroud of Turin, purportedly the burial clothe of the crucified Christ, bearing His image. Another 2 million-plus pilgrims visited the shroud again in 2015. Five hundred years ago, by contrast, Protestant Reformers renounced such pilgrimages as, at best, vain superstition. The sixteenth-century English Bible translator William Tyndale, for example, criticized pilgrims who journeyed from church to … [Read more...]
‘Our job isn’t finished,’ Missouri Baptists tell Midwest March for Life participants
JEFFERSON CITY – Missouri Baptists – including three keynote speakers – joined a crowd of some 700 pro-life advocates during the Midwest March for Life, April 26, on the lawn of the State Capitol here. Brandy Meeks, president of the Vitae Foundation and member of the Missouri Baptist Convention’s (MBC) Christian Life Commission (CLC), put a spotlight on the abortion industry’s efforts to convince young people to support abortion. “Friends, parents, grandparents that are out there, … [Read more...]
‘When Jesus returns, He will right every wrong,’ Missouri Baptist apologist, author Rob Phillips says in exclusive interview
‘Return of Jesus’ book now available online JEFFERSON CITY – A new book about Christ’s return is now available for purchase online. The book, What Every Christian Should Know about the Return of Jesus, was authored by Rob Phillips, director of Ministry Support and Apologetics for the Missouri Baptist Convention (MBC), and published by the MBC’s High Street Press. The book is available in print and e-book editions at https://www.amazon.com/dp/1958988065. An audio version is scheduled for … [Read more...]
Jackson County law criminalizes gospel’s call to conversion
“I know a leading psychiatrist who thinks it a bad week if he does not help two or three of his patients to (place faith in) Christ,” the Christian apologist and Oxford don Michael Green once wrote. Unfortunately, should that psychiatrist ever move to Kansas City, Mo., he could be the target of government prosecution for sharing his faith with patients – particularly, if he shares the gospel with children confused about their gender. As previously reported in The Pathway (here and here), … [Read more...]
Could return to faith resolve nation’s ‘flight from work’?
Whether the COVID-19 lockdown of 2020 achieved any good for society, I’ll leave it for you to decide. But one good thing, at least, it did for me. See, for all the decades of my life, I’ve lived under the delusion that toilet paper is always in ready supply. The lockdown undeceived me, once and for all. Come to find out, if a man wants a delicate roll of two-ply at hand, the multitudes must sweat and toil. They must labor at logging companies, toilet paper mills and packaging plants, in … [Read more...]
Jackson County bans ‘conversion therapy’
KANSAS CITY – The legislature for Jackson County – the most populous county in the Kansas City metro area – voted to ban so-called “conversion therapy” for minors, April 3. The nine-member legislature’s unanimous decision makes Jackson County the first county in Missouri to ban “conversion therapy,” according to Fox News. Ordinance #5731 defines “conversion therapy” broadly, as follows: “Conversion Therapy or Reparative Therapy,” the ordinance reads, “means any practice or treatment … [Read more...]
‘Incredible destruction’: Disaster Relief responds after deadly tornado hits southeast Missouri
GLENALLEN, Mo. – Missouri Baptist Disaster Relief (MODR) has already deployed in response to a deadly tornado that hit the southeast Missouri town of Glenallen in the early morning hours of April 5. Sgt. Clark Parrott of the Missouri State Highway Patrol Troop E confirmed at least five deaths in Glenallen, FOX News reported on April 6. According to the 2020 census, Glenallen has a population of 57 people. MODR’s assessment team was on the ground in Bollinger County yesterday, April … [Read more...]
Sports betting not the only legislative effort to expand gambling in Missouri
Six-out-of-seven pro-gambling bills filed by Missouri Republicans, contrary to party platform JEFFERSON CITY – An attempt to legalize sports betting isn't the only legislative effort to expand the gambling industry in Missouri this spring. The Republican-led Missouri House of Representatives passed a bill legalizing sports gambling in a 118-35 vote, March 21. The bill, which combines House bills 556 and 581, is now heading to the Missouri Senate for final approval. But a spate of … [Read more...]
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