Doctors spoke the word “miracle” after 10-year-old Xavier Cunningham fell face-first onto a meat skewer and survived. But in the aftermath of the miracle, the boy’s family have found grace upon grace and a passion for ministry.
Missouri
State grant delivers new simulators to SBU nursing program
Southwest Baptist University recently held a very special baby shower in its Department of Nursing to celebrate the arrival of exciting new training technology. Thanks to a $142,158 grant through Missouri’s Nursing Education Incentive Program, SBU purchased birthing simulators and related tools to enhance instruction in maternal, newborn, and post-partum care. Students will gain hands-on knowledge and experience in the vital discipline of labor and delivery health care.
National
‘I want to be the pastor’: Hadaway addresses ‘Law Amendment,’ to be considered at SBC annual meeting
Messengers to the 2024 SBC annual meeting in June will vote on an amendment which would add a sixth subparagraph to Article III, Paragraph 1 of the SBC Constitution. The ‘Law Amendment,’ as it is called, states that a church will be in friendly cooperation only if it “affirms, appoints, or employs only men as any kind of pastor or elder as qualified by Scripture.”
Columns
The church of today
“I would graciously disagree with anyone arguing that college students are the future of the church. Instead, I would suggest that college students are the present church, fully capable of leading and serving well! I would further suggest that many college students desire to lead and/or serve, and in the right context will do so with great passion.”
Apologetics
He will judge the nations
The second coming of Jesus is implied in hundreds of Old Testament prophecies that center on future judgment of the world and a coming kingdom of righteousness. Jesus and the New Testament writers elevate these ancient prophecies and apply them to the unfinished but guaranteed future work of the Savior.
Global
Nearly 50 Christians killed in Nigeria attacks; dozens wounded, displaced
Nearly 50 Christians have been killed in a series of militant attacks on villages in Nigeria’s Benue, Plateau and Kaduna states in late April through early May, with dozens more wounded and displaced, according to news reports.
Culture
As pro sports goes all-in on gambling, society is left to count the true cost
The only thing matched by the pomp and festivities of the NFL Draft, held in Detroit, may be the level at which gambling has become entwined with the league (All the companies in the fake intro are actual NFL partners).