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How You Can Rediscover Contemporary Jesus
I struggled to reclaim faith early in my college years. At least that's what the struggle seemed to be about as I was living through it. Looking back, it seems more likely that I was actually struggling for a way to...
How to Launch a Healthy Start for Your New Pastor
Richard Blackburn, a Lombard Peace Center trainer, was a featured speaker at a recent training event for congregational conflict interventionists. "When I look into the history of churches I go into for a conflict...
May 27, 2015
Doug Dortch Nominated as CBF Moderator-Elect (Baptist News Global) 'Anxious and Hopeful' Family Christian Store Employees Wait Outcome of Bankruptcy Auction (Michigan Live) KC Church Faces Long Recovery After Rain...
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I love to travel, but it comes with a variety of hardships. The feeling of being herded like cattle at the airport, long flights in cramped seats, long lines at passport control, jet lag ... all can take a toll....
6 Ways to Recognize Today’s Prophets
Sometimes after teaching or preaching about figures I may wish to describe as "prophetic," people have sometimes commented, "But what are the big issues today?" This question is asked no doubt with the desire that...
Avoiding Unbalanced Stereotypes from News Hot Spots
Waco, Texas, made national news again due to violence. This central Texas town of around 125,000 people is, unfortunately, more widely known due to violent incidents that have happened. Anyone unfamiliar with Texas or...
Your Church Doesn’t Have All the Answers – And That’s Good
Christianity is a collaborative faith. In a letter to churches in Corinth, the apostle Paul confronted several congregations that were arguing with each other. The thrust of his message was that no two churches were...
May 26, 2015
Hobby Lobby Billionaire Behind the Christian Counseling Center that Treated Josh Duggar (Raw Story) Faith-Based Leaders United Republicans, Democrats to Reduce Florida Youth Arrests (Tampa Bay Times) Obama to Deliver...
How God Expects Us to Rule Creation
God made humans in his image and entrusted them with sovereignty over the rest of creation, according to Genesis 1. This sovereignty over creation isn't a despotic rule to do whatever we want with and to the earth,...
Why Colonial Baptists Were Reluctant Patriots
Baptist pastor James Manning of Providence, Rhode Island, wrote to English Baptist leader John Ryland in November 1776, apprising him of trouble in the American colonies. Two winters before, Providence's Baptists had...
May 23, 2015
Judge Dismisses Counts in Christ Church Cathedral Suit Against JPMorgan Chase (Indianapolis Star) Josh Duggar Apologizes Amid Molestation Allegations, Resigns Family Research Council (Washington Post) How the Duggars'...
Why Pastors Must Accept and Live Within Their Limits
We see them all the time. They are everywhere in town and easily visible when driving on streets and highways. I'm talking about speed limit signs. These symbols that appear on the side of the road are often...
Mission Workers Come to Aid of Mediterranean Migrants
On a recent Sunday night, BMS World Mission worker Ann MacFarlane received a text. "Come to the port in the early hours of Monday morning." If MacFarlane had been back in Reggio Calabria on Italy's southern coast, she...
Profiles In Goodwill: Johnny McKinney
Johnny McKinney is senior pastor of Boulevard Baptist Church in Anderson, South Carolina. 1. Where did you grow up? Johnson City, Tennessee. 1. What is your favorite verse, book or story in the Bible? Why? Romans...
May 22, 2015
Parishioners Appealing Judge's Order to Vacate Closed Church (Minneapolis Star-Tribune) Another Christian College Faces Backlash for Student-Athlete Policy on LGBT Issues (Washington Post) How Religion and High School...
Remembering the 1.5 Million Lost in Armenian Genocide
The U. S. Conference of Catholic Bishops and the National Council of Churches of Christ in the U.S.A. sponsored an ecumenical worship service on May 7 titled "The Holy Martyrs of the Armenian Genocide: A Prayer for...
3 Major Changes for Church-Planting Expectations
Church planting in the United States and Canada has been traditionally all about gathering a large crowd, making a big splash in a community and building a building. Success is measured by how big and how fast. Though...
Critics on the Right Take Aim at Pope Francis
Pope Francis enjoys universal acclaim. Almost. While the pontiff is building bridges to Communists in Cuba, nuns who had been under suspicion, Muslims, Jews, Protestants and even people outside the faith, two...
May 21, 2015
Wheaton College Defends Decision to Allow Homosexual Student Groups on Campus (Christian News Network) Bobby Jindal Signs 'Religious Freedom' Order Protecting Same-Sex Marriage Opponents (CNN) Ireland: Priests are...
The last supper, among other lasts
An unseasonably hot day in Jerusalem greeted participants in the 2015 Campbell Divinity School Bible Lands Study Tour as they closed out their experience of pilgrimage, education, and friendship in Israel and the West...
Profiles In Goodwill: Jim Somerville
Jim Somerville is pastor of First Baptist Church in Richmond, Virginia. Jim's articles that have appeared on EthicsDaily.com are available here, and his Skype interview is available here. 1. Where did you grow up? I...