Remarkable…

His resume includes Baptist minister, author, lobbyist, and chairman of the Religious Freedom Coalition. Notable accomplishments, certainly. Perhaps most notable, however, is that Rev. William Murray is the son of America’s most prominent and controversial atheist, Madeline Murray O’Hair. In 1970, Murray used her then 13 year-old son to file a lawsuit against Baltimore City Public Schools. In the suit, she asserted that her son suffered “bullying” for having to participate in class Bible readings and that such readings in public schools were unconstitutional. She eventually won

the case and the baby was thrown out with the bathwater as it is now commonplace on many campuses to ban or restrict all Bible readings, for teachers to fear mentioning their own faith in the classroom, and for many Bible clubs to be refused admission or space to meet. Click here, here, here, and here for some recent conflicts. Ms. Murray later sued NASA seeking to prevent astronauts from praying or reading the Bible during space missions, and she sued the city of Baltimore again this time seeking to remove tax exempt status from a local Catholic church. Remarkably, perhaps miraculously, her son William, used by his mother to ban the Bible from schools, became a Christian and later a pastor. On this day in 1980, William converted to faith in Jesus Christ. “I had heard many times in various churches [we were challenging] that all

one needed to do was admit guilt and ask Jesus in. I had not made that one step, to ask Him into my heart. I knew I must take that step, and I did so on that night. God was no longer a distant, impersonal ‘force’. I now knew Him in a personal way.” What can God do? Maybe the better question is, what CAN’T God do? Throughout February we will explore God’s limits via the amazing book of ACTS. Join us! See you Sunday as we explore the SECOND greatest moment in human history. No kidding.

Pastor Rob

January 25, 2017

Vol. 4, Issue 4

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Broadway

Broadway Blast is a weekly publication of Broadway Presbyterian Church

209 West Broadway Blvd., Sedalia, MO 65301 - www.ExploreTheWay.ORG

Blast-Off “I am the WAY the truth and the life.” (Jn. 14:6)

Explore the Way

with Broadway

Sunday Worship

January 29

Worship 8:30 & 10:30 a.m.

“On the Road Again”

Rev. Rob Hughes

Acts 9:1-31

(click link above to

read this passage)

“These Days” daily devotional books are available on the table outside the office.

The cover price is $2.95 per book, if you would like to contribute to the cost.

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Broadway PC Preschool

Sunday, February 12 is Preschool Sunday. We would like

to invite you to our annual

Spaghetti Luncheon & Bake Sale

Fundraiser immediately following 10:30am worship. All funds raised will benefit the Preschool!

Menu: Spaghetti, Bread, Salad, Dessert, Drink No ticket/reservation required.

Meal price is a FREE-WILL DONATION for our Preschool

To provide flowers for Sunday worship services, requests should be made to the church

office. You may want to provide flowers in honor or in memory of a family member, or to

honor someone on a special occasion. Thank you for being faithful year after year in

providing flowers for the added beauty to our worship.

Open dates are: April 30, May 7, and July 2.

You may choose to take your flowers home following worship, or

indicate Deacons may share them. To calendar your request,

please contact the church office.

Year-End Contribution Reports 2016 year-end contribution reports are available to be picked up now.

The reports are located in the hallway beside the office doorway. Please help us save postage costs by picking up your report.

We’ve gotten off to a good start with our First Friday program. Special thanks to Karen Brockman, Stephanie Sneed, and a valuable cast of others for getting this program launched!! Now, we are looking for others willing to steer the ship. Have you enjoyed First Friday gatherings? Are you able to help

keep it going? We need you. The next gathering is Friday, February 3rd, 5:30pm+, and the theme is love. We’ll have a TrulyWed game competition, and bring your wedding albums to share!

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February

1 Rosella Elgin

Draven Bock

Madison Hayden

2 Edith Johnson

Shyienne Cornell

3 Ashlynn Gaspard

Chase Van Horn

4 Lora Boone

7 Phillip Smith

8 Sherry Lewis

Annika Lowman

10 George Cobblah

Mary Lee McGuire

Jeff Terrell

11 Kara Smith

12 Lynda Bell

14 Brian Michael

Hannah Kolasky

16 Kylee Banning

Grace Callis

Derick Graeser

17 Brenda Dake

18 Betty Hausam

Robbie Cavanagh

19 Jonathan Roquet

Justina Roquet

20 John Carroll

21 Chris Clark

Bob Wiley

22 Jared Singer

23 Gale Dillon

24 Alice Ruttinger

25 Sharon Lowman

26 Bill Booth

Caitlin Sparks

7 Larry & Sharon Horton - 42 14 Gale & Randy Harding - 24

Nedra & Carl Zimmerschied - 57

Barbara & Alex Wales - 35

16 Sue & Dick Parrish - 20

18 Melinda & Kevin Moore - 26

22 Edith & Jim Johnson - 48

Service on Wednesday, March 1 7:00 p.m.

Candlelight worship and imposition of ashes at Broadway PC

Community Lenten Breakfast Devotional Sponsored by Pettis County Ministerial Assn.

Wednesday mornings—7:00-7:45 a.m.

March 1 — Immanuel UCC

March 8 — Broadway Presbyterian

March 15 — Wesley United Methodist

March 22 — Community of Christ

March 29 — Calvary Baptist ?

April 5 — TBD

April 12 — First Christian

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