By Doug Elders As an SBC pastor I am very disappointed in the Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission’s recent article, What Should Christians Think of Governments That Criminalize Homosexuality? I strongly disagree with its perspective. I have been a Southern Baptist for nearly 40 years and have been so because we stand firmly on the unchanging authority of Scripture. I believe this article undermines very clear Biblical teaching about the abominable nature of homosexuality and … [Read more...]
MBC Pathway Editor Don Hinkle: “Attorney defending Hobby Lobby to speak at Worldview Conference”
Don Hinkle shares about the upcoming Worldview Conference, which features Josh Hawley, an attorney and University of Missouri Constitutional law professor, who will report on the Hobby Lobby religious liberty case which will have been heard just nine days earlier by the United State Supreme Court. Learn more and register for the Worldview Conference: http://mobaptist.org/worldview … [Read more...]
Pro-life General Assembly owed much-deserved thanks
As the Missouri General Assembly approaches its spring break, no less than 28 bills have been introduced in an effort to protect the unborn and health of the mother. Missouri is among the top three states with the most abortion restrictions introduced this year, according to Elizabeth Nash, the state policy director for the Guttmacher Institute, an abortion rights and research group. Such activity bears witness to the prayer warriors and pro-life activists determined to make abortions rare … [Read more...]
Mohler: Religious liberty threat growing
James A. Smith Sr./Baptist Press PROVO, Utah (BP) – Speaking for the second time in less than 100 days at Brigham Young University (BYU), Southern Baptist leader R. Albert Mohler Jr. told students and faculty at the school, “We may go to jail sooner even than we thought,” recalling his concern about the threat to religious liberty raised in an earlier appearance at the Mormon-owned school. “I am not here because I believe we are going to heaven together, but I do believe we may go to … [Read more...]
Charles Sumner and Slavery
Bill Federer reflects on Charles Sumner and slavery in today's American Minute (Brought to you by AmericanMinute.com) … [Read more...]
Exploitation threatens African children
Charles Braddix/Baptist Press JOHANNESBURG (BP) – A young child sits on the side of the road in Madagascar crushing rocks with a hammer almost too heavy for him to hold. Another accidentally slices his hand open with a machete while opening cocoa pods on a plantation in Ghana. A young teenage girl, trafficked for the sex industry, walks the beaches of Kenya looking for business. A young boy squats naked in a mineshaft in Burkina Faso, chipping ore and loading it into buckets all … [Read more...]
Lawsuit against Nixon Explained
In the state of Missouri, the voters defined marriage as one man and one woman and legally placed it in the Missouri Constitution. In 2004 a million voters went to the polls and approved a Missouri Constitutional Amendment, by a whopping 71% to 29%, placing in the Constitution the definition of marriage as being one man to one woman. But in 2014, the Governor Jay Nixon of Missouri defied both these realities by his executive order. He announced that couples of the same-sex who were … [Read more...]
BREAKING: DHS Tells Romeike Family ‘You Can Stay’
PURCELLVILLE, Va./Christian Newswire/ -- The Department of Homeland Security verbally informed Home School Legal Defense Association that the Romeike family is being granted indefinite deferred action status. The Department told HSLDA that this meant the order of removal would not be acted on and that the Romeikes could stay. HSLDA Chairman Michael Farris was thrilled. "This is an incredible victory that I can only credit to Almighty God. I also want to thank those who spoke up on … [Read more...]
Naghmeh Abedini Speaking at Geneva Summit 2014
Naghmeh Abedini, the wife of persecuted and imprisoned pastor Saeed Abedini, shares her family's story and speaks against Iran's oppression of religious freedom. … [Read more...]
New gay marriage rules hamper states
Tom Strode/Baptist Press WASHINGTON (BP) – The U.S. Justice Department’s new, wide-ranging policies supporting same-sex marriages even in states where such unions are illegal came as no shock, but will hamper states’ efforts to govern on the issue, says a Southern Baptist public policy expert. Attorney General Eric Holder’s Feb. 10 memorandum officially announcing the changes marked the latest in a series of actions by the Obama administration to extend federal benefits to people in … [Read more...]
A call to faithfulness despite somber mood
O Lord, how my adversaries have increased! Many are rising up against me. But You, O Lord, are a shield about me, My glory and the One who lifts my head. – Psalm 3:1,3 For the past two weeks I have had the privilege of visiting with executive directors from other state conventions, editors of state convention newspapers and Southern Baptist leaders. It is an annual effort I make in order to get a first-hand impression of where Southern Baptists are at the moment. Carrying the … [Read more...]
Strategos brings security to the Bootheel
SIKESTON – Pastors and other church leaders from around the state gathered in the bootheel for the Missouri Baptist Convention’s (MBC) first 2014 church security and intruder awareness training here at Miner Baptist Church, Feb. 15. During the first decade of the millennium, instances of church violence in the United States increased tenfold, according to one report. And violence can strike anywhere. For this reason, Tim Kile and Erik Baileygaines of Strategos International equipped 61 … [Read more...]
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