This is a screen shot from October 1st, just before the beginning of the MLB playoffs…

Nobody had us even getting past the Padres.
How sweet it is!

Photographer Chris Lee of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch captured this great photo from Game 3 of the World Series.

Never could I have dreamed more than four years ago when the Missouri Baptist Convention (MBC) Executive Board hired me to start The Pathway that it would blossom into what it has become.
Started as a counter-publication to the renegade Word & Way, The Pathway has become far more, establishing itself as the respected “conservative voice” […]

A few days ago I was ripping through a new book I had received when my wife came through the room and asked me what I was reading. I said, “A history of the Baptist Sunday School Board.”  She laughed (“guffawed” is a better word for it) and walked away, singing a modified version of […]

…we have other very important things on our minds right now. We will resume our writing once the Cardinals have finished off the Mets and Tigers.

Last eve I passed beside a blacksmith’s door,
And heard the anvil ring the vesper chime;
Then, looking in, I saw upon the floor
Old hammers, worn with beating years of time.

“How many anvils have you had,” said I,
“To wear and batter all these hammers so?”
“Just one,” said he, and then, with twinkling eye,
“The anvil wears the […]

KANSAS CITY “Midwestern Baptist Theological Seminary President R. Philip Roberts announced Oct. 10 that the seminary has purchased the Charles H. Spurgeon Library from William Jewell College.

The 6,750-volume collection had been for sale to the highest bidder for several weeks and Midwestern was awarded the collection with a top bid of $400,000. The next closest […]

Junk.
I cannot think of a better description for the letter Missouri clergy are getting from Americans United for the Separation of Church and State (AU), a radical leftist organization committed to the eradication of Christianity from the public square and the promotion of secular humanism as America’s national religion.
In recent days, pastors throughout Missouri have […]

In the closing chapter of his excellent book Toward an Exegetical Theology: Biblical Exegesis for Preaching and Teaching, Walter C. Kaiser hits a home run with the following quote regarding the need for both the Word and Spirit in our pulpits today:
“With so many instructions, steps, and cautions to be kept in mind when employing […]

Today’s special guest is Dr. Bryant Wright, pastor of Johnson Ferry Baptist Church in Marietta, Georgia. Pastor Wright was the President of the 2006 SBC Pastor’s Conference, and was responsible for putting together the excellent breakout sessions. He recently published an excellent year-long devotional book that is worth getting a copy of. Thank you Pastor Wright for your example of pastoral ministry, for your leadership in the SBC, and for taking time to send us your testimony this week.