Protect life! Save the Babies! Pro-Life, Pro-Woman! Protestors bearing signs poured into the Illinois Capitol’s rotunda for a pro-life rally March 20. An estimated 3,600 of them turned out, so many that security shut down admission due to safety fears as lines of people waiting to get in formed outside. The unusually high turnout was […]
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Final walks
We adopted our dog Willy as a scraggly shelter puppy eight years ago. Our veterinarian looked him over during his first visit and said, “This little guy looks like he was made out of spare parts.” Willy was never very coordinated, and one eye didn’t work very well, if at all. At 17 months, when […]
Pastor’s legacy praised at anniversary
It’s been 10 years since the murder of Maryville First Baptist’s Pastor Fred Winters. Illinois Baptists were shocked when the beloved pastor was gunned down while preaching the Sunday morning message from the pulpit. Serving on the IBSA staff, I first got to know Pastor Fred when he served two terms as IBSA vice president […]
Divine disobedience
Read: Acts 4:13-22 What do you do when obeying the Word of God means disobeying human governments and authorities? That is the question Peter and John faced. When commanded by the Sanhedrin, the religious and cultural leaders of their day, to disobey the Word of God, they responded with divine disobedience. “Whether it is right […]
Hearing the Word in a new way
Growing Christians often make commitments to read the Word of God more faithfully each day. Some of that reading is done by reading the “whole of the Word” through a systematic read-the-Bible-through plan. Another way to read the Bible is in “small bites,” using a devotional booklet or app like Our Daily Bread. Both reading […]
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