‘Return of Jesus’ book now available online JEFFERSON CITY – A new book about Christ’s return is now available for purchase online. The book, What Every Christian Should Know about the Return of Jesus, was authored by Rob Phillips, director of Ministry Support and Apologetics for the Missouri Baptist Convention (MBC), and published by the MBC’s High Street Press. The book is available in print and e-book editions at https://www.amazon.com/dp/1958988065. An audio version is scheduled for … [Read more...]
Knock-knock, He’s there
There’s a longstanding debate over which knock-knock joke is the best of all time. I would like to call it a knock-knock knock-down-drag-out, but I’m afraid you’d stop reading and I hate to lose readers in the first paragraph. We can’t argue that there are definitely knock-knock joke staples. I can give just a word or two of some of these and you hear the entire joke in your head. Like that yodelly one with “little old lady who.” Or how about “Boo who?” “You don’t have to cry about it, … [Read more...]
Jackson County law criminalizes gospel’s call to conversion
“I know a leading psychiatrist who thinks it a bad week if he does not help two or three of his patients to (place faith in) Christ,” the Christian apologist and Oxford don Michael Green once wrote. Unfortunately, should that psychiatrist ever move to Kansas City, Mo., he could be the target of government prosecution for sharing his faith with patients – particularly, if he shares the gospel with children confused about their gender. As previously reported in The Pathway (here and here), … [Read more...]
BFM Article XI: Evangelism, missions
Following is another in a series of columns on The Baptist Faith & Message 2000. Article XI of The Baptist Faith & Message 2000 reads: “It is the duty and privilege of every follower of Christ and of every church of the Lord Jesus Christ to endeavor to make disciples of all nations. The new birth of man’s spirit by God’s Holy Spirit means the birth of love for others. Missionary effort on the part of all rests thus upon a spiritual necessity of the regenerate life, and is … [Read more...]
Missouri Baptist’s High Street Press releases book on return of Jesus
JEFFERSON CITY – The Missouri Baptist Convention, through its High Street Press imprint, has released a new resource for personal or group study titled What Every Christian Should Know about the Return of Jesus. The 500-page softcover book focuses on truths about Christ’s second coming that are plainly stated in Scripture, yet often overlooked when followers of Jesus prefer to debate the chronological minutiae of the last days. While the order of events surrounding Christ’s return is of … [Read more...]
Could return to faith resolve nation’s ‘flight from work’?
Whether the COVID-19 lockdown of 2020 achieved any good for society, I’ll leave it for you to decide. But one good thing, at least, it did for me. See, for all the decades of my life, I’ve lived under the delusion that toilet paper is always in ready supply. The lockdown undeceived me, once and for all. Come to find out, if a man wants a delicate roll of two-ply at hand, the multitudes must sweat and toil. They must labor at logging companies, toilet paper mills and packaging plants, in … [Read more...]
Sight & Sound’s ‘JESUS’ to be streamed online for free on Easter weekend
BRANSON – The greatest rescue story of all time comes to life in a free streaming event on Easter weekend. Sight & Sound TV has announced that JESUS will be streamed, at no cost, to screens in your home for three days, from Good Friday, April 7, through Easter Sunday, April 9. Filmed in front of a live audience, this state-of-the-art theatrical production has been experienced by more than five million people worldwide. From the bustling streets of Jerusalem to the raging Sea of … [Read more...]
Comfort flows from life, death, resurrection of Christ
Words of comfort come easy to most of us – at least, as the saying goes, until we suffer a toothache ourselves or stub our own toes. But one wellspring of comfort never runs dry – namely, the life, death and resurrection of the Lord Jesus Christ. Through the ages, Christians have sought comfort amid suffering by remembering the truths we celebrate on Christmas, Good Friday and Easter. Since Jesus lived and died for them, these Christians saw themselves in His story of suffering. In turn, … [Read more...]
Kids have problems, too!
“So God created man in His own image; in the image of God He created him; male and female He created them.” – Genesis 1:27 Sometimes we forget that children, as well as adults, have problems. We, perhaps, think that all we need to do to make them happy is to praise them and let them have a lot of fun. Not so! Children sometimes worry themselves to the point of sickness. They have an added problem. They often don’t have the vocabulary or experience to be able to explain their feelings to … [Read more...]
Even Pi Day points us to the Alpha and Omega
Many moons ago, after surviving an algebra class in my freshman year of college, I bid adieu to mathematics and intended never to take up the subject again. Even in childhood, when for a short time I dreamed vaingloriously of studying astrophysics in the footsteps of the great Einstein himself, I disliked math – naturally, since few people love subjects they struggle to understand. On my wall hung a poster of Einstein, with words of hope for me: “Do not worry about your difficulties in … [Read more...]
Super-size your zeal, fervor, service
I’m going to be honest here, I’m the kind of person who would like to get a new car every year. It’s not about having a fancy car, mind you. I don’t really care about that. The reason I need a new one is that unless the car is new, I have no real way of knowing how many fries are between the seats. One potato, two potato…I really don’t know. I only know it has to be too, too many potatoes. A few months in, can it even be called a potato anymore? Also, what’s that smell? Even with … [Read more...]
Do Christians and Mormons worship the same God?
EDITOR’S NOTE: This article was first published in 2016, but the question has been raised recently by ongoing controversy regarding Mormonism and the popular show, “The Chosen” (Read more here). See another column about Mormonism and biblical Christianity here. Do Christians and Mormons worship the same God? The question may irk our LDS friends, who insist that the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is the restored Church and therefore cannot be distinguished from orthodox … [Read more...]
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