By Jennifer Harris Word&Way News Writer JEFFERSON CITY — It’s time to “Unplug the Christmas machine,” states a book with the same title by Jo Robinson and Jean Coppock Staeheli. And members of First Baptist Church in Jefferson City are challenged
By Ken SatterfieldWord&Way There are many ways of showing concern for others. Here’s how you can spend a typical day this season without going any further than your keyboard: 6:30 a.m. Rise, shine and share some devotional time at Following the Star. The Flash-driven experience
By Bill Webb, Word&Way Editor Have you ever found yourself in the dark? No, not the way children sometimes describe their parents’ level of awareness. Have you found yourself in literal darkness without the means to adequately dispel that darkness? Many people in the Midwest
Question: It’s almost Christmas and I don’t have much money to buy gifts for my two children. I’m a single mother of two teenagers. I have a full-time job. I manage to stay up with our bills until an emergency comes, like the car breaking
By Ken Satterfield Word&Way Party It Forward (snipurl.com/PartyItForward): Based on the “Pay It Forward” book by Catherine Ryan Hyde and the accompanying movement (payitforwardfoundation.org). Throw a party and ask people to support a worthy cause
By Bill Webb, Word&Way Editor It was Christmas pageant time at Fourth Avenue Baptist Church, just inside the beltway on the east edge of town. The pageant at Old Fourth was a long-standing tradition. The script and the music remained the same every year.
December 24, John 1:10-14 By Judith R. González, Hand in Hand Ministries, Springfield "He was in the world, and though the world was made through him, the world did not recognize him. He came to that which was his own, but his own did
December 22, Matthew 2:13-18 By Alton Lacey, Missouri Baptist University President Much of what we cherish about Christmas is in the many stories of how it evokes the best in human nature. Music, movies, television and newspapers are full of happy stories
December 21, Matthew 2:1-12 By Bob Johnston, Pastor, First Baptist Church, Rolla I have always been fascinated with the contradictions so apparent at Christmas. We speak of the joy of this season, and yet some lonely souls experience this as the most depressing time
