“Keep thy heart with all diligence; for out of it are the issues of life.” Proverbs 4:23 Recent comments about young people and their “devices” would lead one to believe that technology is the work of the devil. There are those who blame recent inventions for many undesirable actions. They are upset that young people will talk on their cell phones instead of talking to people around them. They feel that too much time is spent on computers, cell phones, etc. On the other hand, there are … [Read more...]
Crouse: God is perfect, trustworthy
HANNIBAL – Janice Crouse shared God’s faithfulness in a personal challenge and how evidence shows marriage benefits society at the Worldview Conference April 7 at Hannibal-LaGrange. Crouse is the executive director of World Congress of Families IX and previously served as executive director and a senior fellow at The Beverly LaHaye Institute, the think tank for Concerned Women for America. “Christians are not without trials,” Crouse said as she testified to God’s work in her own life. … [Read more...]
Wilcox: Marriage makes a healthy community
HANNIBAL – Families based upon healthy marriages make for healthy communities, Brad Wilcox said during the first of two presentations at the Missouri Baptist Convention’s Worldview Conference, April 14. “I’m sure you’ve heard this idea, this phrase, that it ‘takes a village to raise a child,’” said Wilcox, who is director of the National Marriage Project and serves as an associate professor of sociology at the University of Virginia. “I would just add to that, ‘It takes a married village … [Read more...]
Yeats: Orphan care displays gospel
HANNIBAL – Missouri Baptists can display the power and truth of the gospel by caring for orphans and foster children, John Mark Yeats said during the Worldview Conference at Hannibal-LaGrange University here, April 14. “If we will be those Christians who follow the biblical care mandates, we will profoundly disrupt secular worldviews, and we will powerfully demonstrate the truth of the gospel,” Yeats, dean at Midwestern Baptist College, SBC, on the campus of Midwestern Seminary in Kansas … [Read more...]
MBTS begins ‘Preaching & Preachers’ podcast
KANSAS CITY – Midwestern Seminary announced the addition of a new element to JasonKAllen.com, a podcast entitled, “Preaching & Preachers.” The podcast launched on April 18 and will serve as a platform for President Jason K. Allen to interview special guests on topics and issues from the sphere of preaching and beyond. The first in the series, posted on April 18, is an interaction between Allen, Timothy George and Christian George entitled, “Great Preachers in Church History.” In … [Read more...]
Labeling porn ‘public health hazard’ may bring change in treatment
WASHINGTON (BP) – Labeling pornography a “public health hazard” may prove to be a game-changer. That is the hope of the National Center on Sexual Exploitation (NCOSE) and its allies in the attempt to prevent exposure and addiction to pornography and to help those impacted by its use. The effort to reverse the spread of sexually explicit material and its effects received a boost March 29, when Utah Gov. Gary Herbert signed a resolution saying pornography is establishing “a public health … [Read more...]
Northwest BSU tackles flood clean up
EUREKA – Forget playing in the beaches of Florida, a group of 30 students from Northwest Missouri State University’s Baptist Student Union chose to spend their spring break along the cold, damp banks of the Big River cleaning up property damaged by January’s flooding. The students partnered with Missouri Baptist Disaster Relief and Central Baptist Church here. They more or less adopted a half-mile of road along the Big River and poured all their efforts into three houses. “One house was … [Read more...]
Springfield pastor uses his lungs to serve the Lord
SPRINGFIELD – For Justin Nelson, a lifelong love for music began when Monty Matthews – a member of the Jordanaires, the American quartet known for providing background vocals for Elvis Presley — visited Nelson’s childhood church. “He heard me singing in church that day,” Nelson said, “and he just encouraged me as a young guy to start singing for the Lord. That kind of was the catalyst for my lifelong love of music.” Soon Nelson was following Matthews’ advice, with the full support of his … [Read more...]
Unashamed outsider: Lecrae
NASHVILLE (BP) – Is this “the year of black memoir?” Imani Perry, professor of African American studies at Princeton, thinks so, and she places recent books like Ta-Nehisi Coates’ “Between the World and Me” and Clifford Thompson’s “Twin of Blackness” squarely in the black literary tradition. People, however, may read such memoirs as representing all of black thought. “Telling one’s story is one’s story,” Perry reminds, not a prototype you can foist on all the people in a group. But this … [Read more...]
Layman plans for 50,000 churches in Ethiopia
ROGERS, Ark. (BP) – Arkansas corporate executive Haileyesus Abate cries, he says, for the people of his native Ethiopia, a majority Christian nation where numerous primitive tribes still worship nature as deities and have never heard the Gospel. Typical is the nomadic, animistic Mursi Tribe in southwestern Ethiopia, whose men don’t wear clothing. Instead, they use clay and natural pigments to paint intricate, colorful patterns on their bodies to attract a bride, who likely will have had a … [Read more...]
Oh, to remember perfect instructions
It’s really funny when I read the directions on the brownie mix box and then throw it away. Like I somehow think I won’t have to dig it out of the trash five minutes later. Or also dig it out eight more times after that. Sometimes I totally forget how to boil brownies. Not that there’s a lot of ADD at work here or anything, but I was looking up the symptoms for ADD the other day and ended up watching puppy videos on Facebook for 45 minutes. Take one large portion of forgetfulness. Fold … [Read more...]
IMB addresses baptism numbers
NASHVILLE (BP) – Decreases in the number of baptisms and new churches reported by International Mission Board missionaries during the past decade reflect changes in data-reporting methods and missions strategy, not a lack of evangelistic ministry. That’s the conclusion of a March 21 IMB news release issued in response to observations that overseas baptisms for 2015 are at their lowest level since 1969 – 54,762, according to the IMB’s 2016 Ministry Report to the Southern Baptist … [Read more...]
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