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1 month ago | 
baptistpress.com | Scott Barkley |Brian Koonce |Tom Strode |Tobin Perry
Metadata:Topic(s): International News, PersecutionFormat(s): Text ArticlesShare this post: ADAMAWA STATE, Nigeria (BP) – Nigerian Christian leaders are seeking clemency for a Christian farmer given the death sentence for killing a Fulani herdsman during an attack on his farm, it was widely reported.
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1 month ago | 
baptistpress.com | Scott Barkley |Brian Koonce |Tom Strode |Tobin Perry
NASHVILLE (BP) — This weekly Bible study appears in Baptist Press in a partnership with Lifeway Christian Resources of the Southern Baptist Convention. Through its Leadership and Adult Publishing team, Lifeway publishes Sunday School curricula and additional resources for all age groups. This week’s Bible study is adapted from the Explore the Bible curriculum. Bible Passage: 1 Peter 2:1-10Discussion Questions:How does understanding our identity in Christ help us to mature in Christ?
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1 month ago | 
baptistpress.com | Brian Koonce |Diana Chandler |Laura Erlanson |Scott Barkley
Metadata:Format(s): Text ArticlesShare this post: One of the most frequently asked questions in the church is, “What is God’s will for my life?”Generally, people ask that question when they have reached a specific decision point in their lives. They need to know whether to move, get married, stay single, change jobs, or stay where they are. It’s wonderful when people want to know what God wants them to do. To be sure, God cares very much about the answers to these specific questions.
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1 month ago | 
baptistpress.com | Brian Koonce |Diana Chandler |Laura Erlanson |Scott Barkley
Metadata:Topic(s): Churches and Ministry, Cooperating for the Gospel, International MissionsFormat(s): Text ArticlesShare this post: DAVAO CITY, Philippines – Chris Cook, pastor of Parkade Baptist in Columbia, Mo., didn’t know what to think when Pastor Mayinto Ganzon reached out to him on Facebook in November of 2023. Cook was a little skeptical at first, but he replied. “I wasn’t going to just delete the message,” he said, “So I responded to figure out if he was real.”He was real.
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1 month ago | 
baptistpress.com | Brian Koonce |Diana Chandler |Laura Erlanson |Scott Barkley
Metadata:Topic(s): Education, ERLC, Family, HomosexualityFormat(s): Text ArticlesShare this post: WASHINGTON (BP) – In public schools in Montgomery County, Md., 3- and 4-year-olds might be read the board book “Pride Puppy” and asked to spot photos of things seen while trying to find their lost dog at a Pride parade. “Leather,” a “lip ring,” “underwear” or images of the late transgender gay rights activist “Marsha P.
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Dec 26, 2024 | 
mbcpathway.com | Brian Koonce
KANSAS CITY – The Second World War is an endlessly fascinating mine for cinematic story-telling. Bullets, bombs, and clearcut villains and real-life, world-shaping stakes tend to do that. So it’s always a delight when an under-told twist on the stories makes it to the screen. Such is the case with Bonhoeffer: Pastor. Spy. Assassin. You may know the name behind this based-on-a-true-story film. Dietrich Bonhoeffer was a Lutheran pastor who resisted the Nazi-fication of the church in 1940s Germany.
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Nov 4, 2024 | 
mbcpathway.com | Brian Koonce
ST. CHARLES – Missouri Baptists ought to be laser-focused on God’s purpose and God’s glory, Missouri Baptist Convention (MBC) President Chris Williams told messengers at the MBC annual meeting Oct. 28. Williams, senior pastor of Fellowship, Greenwood, delivered his presidential address based on Psalm 57, narrowing in specifically on verse 2: “I call to God Most High, to God who fulfills His purpose for me.”When he wrote this Psalm, David was going through a major valley in his life, Williams said.
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Nov 1, 2024 | 
mbcpathway.com | Brian Koonce
ST. CHARLES, Mo. – Messengers to the Missouri Baptist Convention’s (MBC) annual meeting, Oct. 28-29 here, approved the creation of a task force to aid in the evaluation of a church’s position on certain elements of Baptist identity, especially the office and function of pastoral leaders being limited to biblically qualified men. The motion passed overwhelmingly, with fewer than a dozen “no” votes. The task force came about through a motion by Jeremy Sells a messenger from First Baptist Church.
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Oct 31, 2024 | 
mbcpathway.com | Brian Koonce
Other resolutions address CP’s anniversary, Christian higher education, criminal justiceST. CHARLES, Mo. – Messengers approved a slate of five resolutions during the Missouri Baptist Convention’s (MBC) annual meeting, Oct. 28-29 – most notably urging people to vote “No” on pro-abortion Amendment 3 in the Nov. 5 election.
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Oct 31, 2024 | 
mbcpathway.com | Brian Koonce
SIKESTON, Mo. – “Carnival food” brings to mind corndogs and funnel cakes, but for the traveling workers of the Sikeston American Legion Cotton Carnival, who visit Sikeston each year, it means a hot homecooked meal thanks to First Baptist Church, here. The meal is an annual tradition dating back nearly two decades, with a women’s Sunday School class taking it upon themselves to love on the workers with nothing but hearty, home-cooked fare. This fall, they fed 40 workers at the church on Sept.
