Two days after the San Bernardino, Calif., shootings last week, Liberty University President Jerry Falwell Jr. called on students to arm themselves with concealed weapons and be prepared to use them.
Missouri Baptist University dedicated its new Spartan Field and Field House Nov. 3.
On the first Sunday of Advent, First Baptist Church of Lee’s Summit, Mo., experiences what Randy Buffington calls “controlled chaos.”
University Heights Baptist Church in Springfield,
R. Alan Culpepper (left) praised former seminary staff colleague Molly Marshall (right) as a visionary leader during a 10th anniversary celebration of her presidency
Remember when studies of world religions were abstract and theoretical? No more. The world has come to us. And it is messier than we imagined.
Many evangelical commentaries and most modern translations do not regard John 7:53-8:11 as originally part of John’s Gospel even if they affirm the general authenticity of the account. For example, the New International Version and the New Revised Standard Version each bracket these verses as
Joy is a word that appears in many of our songs, sayings and stories at Christmas. Today’s study is wrapped in joy as an elderly couple experience incredible joy at the birth of a son and the whole world is told the incomparable good news
We study a beautiful song named the “Magnificat” from the first word of the Latin translation of Luke. Note the religious context of this magnificent song, remembering there was no scribe present when Mary shared this miracle with Elizabeth and certainly no electronic recording device.
The first epistle of John was written with two basic purposes — leading the Christian churches to reject the heresy of the Nicolaitans who had left the church, and to teach the believers to love God and to love the brotherhood devoted to Jesus.