JEFFERSON CITY – Christians are citizens of two realms – the earthly and the spiritual. They have rights and responsibilities in both spheres and Christians in America have no greater responsibility than to vote their convictions based on the Bible, said Pathway Editor Don Hinkle while announcing that all is ready for the March 29 Missouri Baptist Convention Worldview Conference scheduled for Memorial Baptist Church here. “The theme of this year’s conference, ‘A Christian Citizen’s … [Read more...]
Lawmakers consider measure requiring multi views of life’s origin in classrooms
JEFFERSON CITY—Evolution won’t be the only theory of biological origin made available to public school students if the bill sponsored by Rep. Rick Brattin, R-Harrisonville, House Bill 1227, becomes law during the current session of Missouri’s General Assembly. “I feel there’s such a bias in the classroom,” Brattin said. “Certain sciences are being taught as fact when they are nothing but hypothesis.” Brattin’s proposal would require teachers to present information that has been verified … [Read more...]
SBU, HLGU back religious liberty
BOLIVAR—The trustees of Southwest Baptist University (SBU) in their Feb. 21 meeting came out strongly against the Obama administration mandate that most religious employers must provide health care coverage for contraception and abortion pills, joining their colleagues at Hannibal-LaGrange University (HLGU) who voted similarly Feb. 10. A member of the Council for Christian Colleges & Universities (CCCU), Colorado Christian University, is already involved in a lawsuit challenging the … [Read more...]
Real Life Ministries to host roundtable lunch after CORE
JEFFERSON CITY – Real Life Discipleship Ministries (RLDM) will take the CORE Conference into overtime March 20 for the first 60 people that sign up for their post-conference roundtable discussion. Aaron Couch and Keith Strasburger from RLDM will host an additional free, informal and intimate conference including lunch March 20 from 12:30 p.m. to 4:30 p.m., at the Baptist Building. Attendance is limited to the first 60 people who register at www.mobaptist.org/CORE. Couch will speak on making … [Read more...]
Turek defends sufficiency of Christian worldview
ELLISVILLE—Frank Turek, founder and president of CrossExamined.org, answered four major questions to explain why Christianity is the most reasonable worldview at a recent seminar here “I Don’t Have Enough Faith to be an Atheist.” “Why are we here?” Turek asked. “What’s the point?” The seminar at First Baptist Church attracted a large, diverse audience of college students to seniors, believers and non-believers. The first question Turek tackled was “Does Truth Exist?” “Truth is telling it … [Read more...]
250 go wild at Meramec Association’s Game Dinner
STEELVILLE – This wasn’t your average Baptist pot luck dinner: Instead of green bean casseroles, salads and pecan pies, it was venison steaks, rabbit chili and hard-boiled turtle eggs, More than 250 men and boys of all ages – and two women who slipped in – attended the third annual Wild Game Dinner at Meramec Baptist Association’s Retreat Center outside Steelville Jan. 27. Men from 11 local churches and others unaffiliated with any church brought in enough local game to feed the crowd … [Read more...]
MBC seeks to retain nearly 300 churches
JEFFERSON CITY—Faced with the prospect of nearly 300 non-complying churches who do not meet membership requirements after a four-year period of grace, the Missouri Baptist Convention (MBC) Credentials Committee has established a compliance deadline of June 30 while emphasizing there will be a strong and intentional effort to retain as many of these churches as possible. With 298 churches in jeopardy due to their non-giving through the Cooperative Program (CP), leaders meeting Feb. 2 at the … [Read more...]
Nevada pastor finds strength in Lord to overcome
NEVADA – Persevere. It was Paul’s message to Timothy, and it is also what Melvin Mabra has done. Mabra is the senior pastor of Cornerstone Baptist Church here. At the end of 2011 he celebrated his 50th year in a ministry marked with perseverance. Mabra met Christ when he was six years old. He then was called to preach at 13, and at 15, he was called to missions. He attended the Baptist University of Corpus Christi, where he graduated in 1964, and then Midwestern Baptist Theological … [Read more...]
Cape Fair jail minister shows no fear in regular routine
GALENA—Harold Stanley, assistant chaplain in the Stone County Jail Ministry and a member of First Baptist Church, Cape Fair, described the strength of his calling as he continues to serve the Lord. As he walked into the Stone County jail for the first time, a man asked him if he was afraid. “I’ve been shot twice, I’ve fought in two wars, I’ve been married to the same woman for 48 years, and I’ve got cancer,” Stanley said. “What are you going to do to me? You just feel that grace surround … [Read more...]
Inmates benefit from teamwork
GALENA—Stone County Sheriff Richard Hill, a member of First Baptist Church of Kimberling City, is proud of the jail ministry work that goes on in this southwest Missouri town with an advertised population of 440 just a little west of Branson. The men who make it happen are Bob Reed, an ordained Baptist minister who is part of an Assembly of God church in Ozark, and Harold Stanley, a member of First Baptist Church, Cape Fair, and an associational worker for Tri County Baptist Association in … [Read more...]
Answering the call to serve in the MBC
Nehemiah had a good job. He was employed by a king and had earned tremendous respect in the Persian kingdom. His job was not exactly easy; a bad day for a king’s cupbearer could be deadly. Nonetheless, Nehemiah worked hard and was a positive presence within King Artaxerxes inner circle. Nehemiah’s life had meaning. What more could he want? One day while Nehemiah was performing his duties to the king, he met a man from Judah named Hanani. Hanani told him that Nehemiah’s ancestral home of … [Read more...]
Why I am pro-life
To the core I am pro-life because God’s Word is uncompromisingly pro-life. To wrench anything contrary from God’s Word is to commit one of the more violent crimes against Scripture, a crime which bears a very high penalty. And while God’s Word tells us over and over again, in many ways, the truth of the sanctity of human life – He uses both His creation around us, and within us, to confirm such truths. In a very special way the Lord prepared my heart for His truth long before I could … [Read more...]
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