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August 16, 2014
Colorado Springs Church to Dedicate Portion of Service to Slain Ferguson Man (Colorado Springs Gazette) Nigerian Pastor Ministers in West Tennessee (Jackson Sun) McConnell at Baptist Church: Congress Must Challenge...
5 Things to Remember in Wake of Robin Williams’ Death
I now risk entering the glutted fray of commenting on Robin Williams' death. There are likely lots of reasons why it hit so many so hard. He was a contemporary of so many of us. He almost always seemed to smile and he...
Can Our Sports Culture Become Slow to Anger?
A terrifying and horrific scene played out at Canadaigua Motorsports Complex in upstate New York recently. At an Empire Super Sprint race event, 20-year-old Kevin Ward Jr. found himself unable to finish a race after he...
Some Baptists in St. Louis Respond to Ferguson Crisis
As a suburb of St. Louis, Missouri, makes international headlines following a police officer shooting and killing an unarmed African-American teenager, most Baptist churches have responded with silence while some...
Far From the Peaceful Shore
A sermon by Randy Hyde, Pastor, Pulaski Heights Baptist Church, Little Rock, Ar. August 10, 2014 Psalm 85:8-13; Matthew 14:22-33 Let’s talk about something that has happened to just about every one of us, a common...
God in Empty Places
A sermon by Keith Herron, Pastor, Holmeswood Baptist Church, Kansas City, Mo. August 10, 2014 Genesis 37:1-11 The Ninth Sunday after Pentecost Psalms 105:1-6, 16-22, 45b; Matt. 14:22-33; Romans 10:5-15 It would not be...
Good Try, Peter!
A sermon by Jim Somerville, Pastor, First Baptist Church, Richmond, Va. August 10, 2014 The Ninth Sunday after Pentecost Matthew 14:22-33 Immediately he made the disciples get into the boat and go on ahead to the other...
Is Peace on Earth Even Possible?
Watching and reading the news lately has been depressing. I realize that the news media does not tell the whole story and that there are lots of good things happening in the world. Yet, there has been no shortage of...
Vision: A Watered-Down, Overused Word in Churches
I have grown tired of the word "vision." Whether it's used in a personal development seminar, a question about the future of the organization, or in the church community to help us be more forward or outward or upward...
The Politics of Jesus: Compassion and Justice
Over the years that I have spent reading the Gospels, I have come to the conclusion that Jesus was not simply a teacher of spirituality as some like to make him out to be. Nor was he some divine figure who went about...
August 14, 2014
Church: JPMorgan Mismanaged Millions in Trust Funds (USA Today) Eastwood Baptist Church Hosting Forum for Senate Candidates, Led by Al Mohler (Bowling Green Daily News) Contemporary Christian Musician Under Fire for...
August 13, 2014
Rally Urges Cap for Payday Loans (Tuscaloosa News) Southern Baptists Encourage Marrying Younger, Avoiding Sexual Sin (Tennessean) Fundamentalist David Barton Claims Evangelical Voters Have Been Ignored by Both Parties...
Friends like these
When Paul McCartney and John Lennon wrote "With a Little Help from My Friends," they did it so Ringo could sing the lead on one of the songs from the "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band." I don't know if their main...
Thailand’s Hope Home Aids Kids with Severe Disabilities
A child with Down's syndrome was allegedly abandoned by his Australian parents and left in the care of his surrogate mother in Thailand. The child's story has been making international headlines. Yet, tragically...
Preachers, Thou Shall Not Steal
In the movie, "The Words," actor Bradley Cooper plays a struggling writer named Rory Jansen. Like so many amateur authors, Rory is unable to get published, much less noticed. While on a honeymoon in France, he stumbles...
Social Change Depends on Personal Change: Appeal for $3,000 for a TV Broadcast
Knowing how we started and how we've been traveling will help our readers know what we need this week--financially. "We're building the train as it's moving down the tracks," said Wilmer C. Fields, one of most seasoned...
Selective Memory of Religion in History Books
An old saying often attributed to Napoleon is: "History is but a fable agreed upon." Postmodern philosophy is teaching us that there is no such thing as an objective account of history; history is always written and...
How British Baptists Responded to World War I
A hundred years ago this August, the world sunk into the dark trauma of World War I—a conflict so costly and all-consuming that no one could be left untouched by its shadow. Millions of lives were cut short, and...
Special Appeal: $3,000 Needed This Week for Documentary TV Broadcast
We need to raise $3,000 this week for getting "Gospel Without Borders" ready for TV broadcast. If 30 EthicsDaily.com readers will contribute $100 each, we'll reach our goal. If 100 EthicsDaily.com readers will...
Let’s Reserve Martyrdom for Real Martyrs
I overheard a conversation on a plane recently that reminded me of an important truth about congregational ministry. It was on a Monday morning at the end of a flight out of Atlanta to another city. Monday morning...
In Politics and Religion, the Devil’s in the Details
Most readers are more than a little familiar with the encounter between Jesus and his disciples that is recorded in Matthew 16:13-20. It began with Jesus asking the disciples what people were saying about him....