Now that all my children are adults, I can tell you that raising the five of them was very often like a game of full-contact musical chairs. Without the chairs. It wasn’t so much about the wrestling—though believe me, there was plenty of that. But it was more about the music. Always even more of that. All three of my sons are in music ministries now and the two daughters are musical too. When Daniel, my youngest, was around twelve, he started drumming. He drummed on tables. He drummed on … [Read more...]
A mess of baby powder, sin
Our son Andrew really likes baby powder, sugar and salt. The only place he doesn’t like them is in the containers they usually come in. He loves for them to cover the floor, bed, toys, clothes, dishes and basically every surface and room in the house. I am still amazed at how quickly the latest supply of baby powder wound up on him, all over our bedroom, one of our cats and parts of the hallway. I had briefly turned away from him to fold some clothes when all of a sudden I smelled a very … [Read more...]
HLGU to host April 14 Worldview Conference
HANNIBAL – Hannibal-LaGrange University’s campus has been chosen to be the site of the 2016 Worldview Conference that will be held here on Thursday, April 14, 2016. The conference will be held in the Parker Theatre of the Roland Fine Arts Center. Distinguished speakers will engage attendees through lectures, question and answer sessions, and panel discussions from 8 am to 5 pm, with a break for lunch. Sponsors of this conference include Missouri Baptist Convention (MBC), The Pathway, and … [Read more...]
The threat to freedom abounds
SEDALIA – Josh and Sara Howell, Christian business owners here, came in the crosshairs of Missouri’s homosexual activist group, PROMO, last fall for refusing to allow a same-sex couple to get married at their privately owned event venue, Heritage Ranch. PROMO criticized the Howells last year on their website in an attempt to garner sympathy for the same-sex couple, as well as support for the Missouri Nondiscrimination Act, a bill that would rob Christian business owners of the right to run … [Read more...]
‘Deadpool’ & dangers of movie sex, profanity
NASHVILLE (BP) – A comic book-based film atop the box office has prompted Christian film critics to warn of spiritual dangers for viewers of movies with nudity, profanity and sexual content. A commentary on the Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission’s website cautioned there is “no margin to voice allegiance to Christ and then attempt to justify slipping into a theater to see a movie like ‘Deadpool,’” an X-Men film released Feb. 12 whose protagonist has been described as “a … [Read more...]
MBC joins fight at Supreme Court
WASHINGTON, D.C. – The Missouri Baptist Convention’s (MBC) Christian Life Commission (CLC) filed a friend of the court brief Feb. 3 with the U.S. Supreme Court in a case involving Texas abortion laws, the first case since 2007 that the high court as agreed to hear regarding statutory regulation of abortionists. The MBC filed its brief in Whole Woman’s Health v. Hellerstedt, which the Supreme Court has agreed to hear March 2. The brief addresses two provisions of the law that the U.S. Court … [Read more...]
Abortions continue to decline in Mo.
JEFFERSON CITY – Abortions in Missouri decreased by seven percent in 2014, according to the Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services’ annual vital statistics report. That year, 8,129 Missouri resident pregnancies were aborted compared with 8,740 in 2013. The 2014 number represents a 32 percent decrease from 2004, and a decrease of 62 percent since Missouri’s highest resident abortions in 1980 of 21,671. “While one aborted child is one too many, these encouraging numbers reflect … [Read more...]
Study: Monthly porn exposure the norm for teens
NASHVILLE (BP) – Half of teenagers and nearly three-quarters of young adults come across pornography at least monthly, and both groups on average consider viewing pornographic images less immoral than failing to recycle. Those are among the findings of a survey of 2,700 Americans released Tuesday (Jan. 19) by Josh McDowell Ministry and the Barna Group. McDowell Ministry and the Internet accountability software provider Covenant Eyes paid approximately a quarter-million dollars to … [Read more...]
Women in combat: DOD change spurs debate
WASHINGTON (BP) – U.S. Department of Defense’s decision to open all military combat positions to women has rekindled a theological and practical debate on the role of women in battle. “It is no shock that a secular society that has embraced feminism and transgender ideology is now confused about gender roles and war,” Owen Strachan, president of the Council on Biblical Manhood and Womanhood, told Baptist Press. “Men have no idea who they are today. Their grandfathers bled out on the … [Read more...]
Home for Christmas: Siblings in foster care find ‘forever family’
SHEPHERDSVILLE, Ky. (BP) – Sam and Stephanie Patterson’s long and emotional quest to become parents was finally realized last December when they adopted four young siblings through foster care. “It feels like the greatest Christmas present we could have ever received,” Stephanie said of her and her husband’s journey. Dec. 18 marks the first anniversary of the adoption of Carrie, now 12, Carissa, 8, Austin, 4, and 3-year-old Kali. The children lived in the Pattersons’ home for more than a … [Read more...]
Missouri schools act to protect bathroom privacy
MARIONVILLE – Several school districts in southwest Missouri have acted to adopt policies to protect the personal privacy of students enrolled in their public schools. The policies ensure that students using restrooms, locker rooms, and shower facilities are not exposed to individuals of the opposite sex. The policies have been established to address the issue of gender-confused students who seek access to facilities used by the opposite biological sex. So-called “transgender” students … [Read more...]
Are men, women equal?
By complementarianism, I mean the view that men and women are equal as God’s fellow image bearers, but nonetheless have some differences of role in the church and in the home. The way I like to put it is equal, but not interchangeable. In other words, you cannot simply swap male and female in and out of different roles without any consequence; nor are the differences between male and female mere matters of anatomy. There are some fundamental, structural, psychological differences as well … [Read more...]
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