JEFFERSON CITY – Some of the biggest names in Christian living are coming to Missouri for the CORE Conference March 19-20: J.D. Payne, Mark Snowden, David Kinnaman, Keith Strasburger, and Reggie McNeal. The two-day meeting revolves around three core values as the Missouri Baptist Convention (MBC) seeks to better equip believers to live out the Great Commission. Those three core values are becoming disciples, missional living and developing leaders. The conference is here at Concord Baptist … [Read more...]
‘Mama D’ touches many young lives in north Missouri
TRENTON – During school hours, while students and faculty bustle between buildings at North Central Missouri College (NCMC), it’s not uncommon to see someone enthusiastically wave and shout, “Mama D! Hey, Mama D!” “I’ve encouraged them to greet each other with brotherly love and they’ve just ran with it,” said “Mama D,” a.k.a. Diann Barnes, Baptist Student Union (BSU) advisor at NCMC. Barnes, a pastor’s wife since she was 19, has served the Lord in ministry for more than 40 years. Her … [Read more...]
Creating ‘Waves’ for Christ in your community
On Oct.15, 1981, one man initiated an act that would change the experience of professional sports for all time. It was the third game of the American League play-off series between the Oakland Athletics and the New York Yankees. On that day, Krazy George Henderson knew he wanted to do something extraordinary. He saw it before anyone else in the stadium. With a drum in his hand, he worked hard to rally the attention of those in the sections around him. He started to generate enthusiasm for … [Read more...]
Remove all impediments in our relationship with God
Plugged pipes are not good. I understand plumbing better than I do the sphere of medicine. However, I understand clearly that the gradual build up of impediments within a copper pipe or an artery have a way of eventually disrupting one’s life. Such a principle has application in a believer’s walk with God. A holy life, a clean life is imperative. God’s passion is that we be conduits of His grace to the people in our sphere of influence. That’s why the Word of God exhorts us to “Be holy, as … [Read more...]
Civil disobedience amid secularizing government
There is a difference between a law that permits abortions (Roe v. Wade) and one which commands abortions be provided, like the ObamaCare mandate requiring religious institutions and individuals to violate their consciences by providing abortion-inducing drugs through their insurance policies to their employees. As ethicist Norman Geisler has noted, it is one thing for a government to allow others to do evil, but it is another for it to force an individual or institutions like Southwest … [Read more...]
De-clogging our minds
I had a little wrestling match with my vacuum cleaner recently. It was doing that wimpy-clean thing—you know, where you have to get down on your hands and knees and hand-feed it every little fuzz ball? If I’m going to do that, I might as well not have a vacuum cleaner. I could just pick up every little piece of fuzz and throw it in the trash myself—cut out the middle man. A vacuum that’s lost all its “suck-ocity” is not worth much. So I got down in the floor, got the thing in a headlock … [Read more...]
Colony Baptist welcomes hope of revival
EDWARDS—The substance of transformation for Bob Loggins, Missouri Baptist Convention (MBC) prayer and spiritual awakening specialist, is often quite simple. Loggins does not always draw a big crowd. The seriousness of his topic sees to that. The need of the hour is to preach against sin, so he has no use for entertainment in the pulpit, or the all-too-common practice of making suggestions. His audience here on Feb. 18 at Colony Baptist Church was six. They came to hear his very first … [Read more...]
Hadaway begins time at the helm of MBTS
KANSAS CITY—The process of healing for Midwestern Baptist Theological Seminary (MBTS) has begun under Robin Hadaway, acting president and associate professor of missions. On Feb. 14, four days after the resignation of MBTS President R. Philip Roberts, Hadaway made a few brief remarks in chapel. “With the transition that happened Friday, and some administrative things I was doing on Monday, last night I got to go back to teaching,” he said. “I realized the reason we’re here is to teach the … [Read more...]
Enrollment numbers inch up again at SBU
BOLIVAR—Enrollment for Southwest Baptist University (SBU) is up, which led SBU President C. Pat Taylor to speak about the order and goodness of God in a time of uncertainty. SBU has 1,405 students this spring compared to 1,391 a year ago. Including the branch campuses and graduate students, the university is up to 3,508 from 3,484 in 2011. “Genesis teaches us that there is a word of stability, and life is precious, and life is good,” Taylor said. “In the midst of uncertainty, there may … [Read more...]
New church plant at Iowa mall meets people where they gather
COUNCIL BLUFFS, Iowa—Thirty minutes before the Mall of the Bluffs officially opened for business one Sunday in late January, worship at Sojourn Church – located in a former Foot Locker bay – began to wind down. Mall walkers turned their heads as they passed by, catching portions of Pastor Jim Parker’s sermon or the worship music. Pastor Parker, or one of the 30 people in attendance, waved at the passersby. Sojourn wasn’t just being friendly to its neighbors. They know their neighbors. In … [Read more...]
Mo. Baptists to join rally for liberty
JEFFERSON CITY—For the first time anyone can recall, the executive director of the Missouri Baptist Convention (MBC) will join with the St. Louis Archbishop in a religious freedom rally March 27 here at the Missouri State Capitol. John Yeats will team with Catholic leader Robert Carlson and other religious leaders from Missouri in a 10 a.m. Rally for Religious Liberty, with speeches beginning at noon. Yeats considers it very important for Missouri Baptists to be part of such an historic … [Read more...]
Green-flowered bag in a black suitcase world
I was waiting for my luggage at the airport recently and I made an interesting observation: I think about 90 percent of travelers have black luggage. If you have a black suitcase on wheels, forget about just reaching out, grabbing it off the belt and rolling on your way. Just try it and you could very possibly get mugged by a dozen or so other black-luggage-lugging passengers. I had to take my husband’s black luggage on a trip one time, and I lost two nails in a bad black suitcase scene. I … [Read more...]
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