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Pastors and church lay leadership must work to avoid becoming poisonous to their congregation and each other.

Word & Way’s print edition will become a monthly magazine starting in July. The magazine will replace the tabloid print edition currently published every other week.

“This means that the June 18 issue will be the final every-other-week newsprint tabloid newspaper we produce,” Editor Bill Webb said.

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. — Pastor Elisey Pronin watched as Russian troops drove tanks and carted military equipment across Ukraine’s eastern border into the Lugansk region and into his town of Pervomaysk.

Christians must be disciple-makers and must be willing to do the Father’s will as Jesus did.

Jeff Johnson challenged attendees at the American Baptist Churches of Nebraska annual meeting May 1-2 at First Baptist Church of Kearney, Neb., to be disciples and evangelists.

Going the extra mile is the essence of the gospel, Bruce Powers believes. First, though, Christians must be able to hear God’s telling them which mile to pursue. Those miles, he is convinced, usually are ones that lead into the community outside the church walls.

Integration of social ministry and verbal witness allows believers to make a holistic difference in people's lives.

Early arrivals to Cooperative Baptist Fellowship Heartland’s recent Celebration of Excellence may have already known Nell Lockhart’s purpose as she carefully double-checked each table and all last-minute details for the fete. She had volunteered to head the local arrangements for the affair held on the Missouri Baptist University campus in St. Louis.

Cooperative Baptist Fellowship Heartland honored four people with awards at its first Celebration of Excellence event April 30 in the Mabee Great Hall at Missouri Baptist University in St. Louis.

Baptist layman and bestselling author John Grisham opposes the death penalty, as evident in his only nonfiction book and multiple fiction books and short stories.

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. — Jesus is the Hope of hope and his followers must be the salt of hopefulness in today’s society, Cornell Sudduth Sr., pastor of Second Baptist Church of Jefferson City, Mo., proclaimed.