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Mentors and Motivators
A sermon delivered by Robert Browning, Pastor, First Baptist Church, Frankfort, Ky., on May 6, 2012. John 15:1-8 Communion Devotion Let’s talk about grapes this morning. It is appropriate we do so since we are going to...
You Will Have to Serve Somebody
A sermon delivered by Joel Snider, Pastor, First Baptist Church, Rome, Ga., on May 6, 2012. Joshua 24:14-16 Morning Prayer: O God, we pray today for these graduates, for their peers here in the city, and others...
Belonging, Behaving, Believing
A sermon delivered by Keith Herron, Pastor, Holmeswood Baptist Church, Kansas City, Mo., on May 6, 2012. Acts 8:26-40 When you think about it, the church has been going through a revolution in thinking these last...
Fruit-Bearing Disciples
A sermon delivered by Michael Cheuk, Pastor, Farmville Baptist Church, Farmville, Va., on May 6, 2012. Fifth Sunday of Easter John 15:1-8 When I began working here at Farmville Baptist in 2005, one of the first people...
This is THE Test!
A sermon delivered by Wendell Griffen, Pastor, New Millennium Church, Little Rock, Ark., on May 6, 2012. 1 John 4:7-21 4:7 Beloved, let us love one another, because love is from God; everyone who loves is born of God...
Realities About Your Church’s Staffing Dilemma
There is a revolution taking place in the way traditional congregations hire, manage and compensate their staff. Some of it is healthy and overdue; some of it is painful and shortsighted. As traditional congregations...
Which Religions Tend to Hold Cultural Dominance?
The class will please come to order. Our text today is "The Law of Cultural Dominance," formulated by David Kaplan in "Cultural Evolution," published 52 years ago, and noticed too little since. I find online that I...
5 Questions to Identify Your Church’s Identity
Although some say that we live in a post-denominational age, there is something comfortable and reassuring about identifying not only with a particular denominational "tribe" but a specific "clan" of that tribe. This...
Church people: for bad or good
By John Pierce A large portion of my life has been spent with conservative, churchgoing people. In fact, these are “my people” as we say. Blue-collar Baptist congregations are as familiar to me as...
A New Artistic Vision
[This is the last in a series of guest blogs from Abby Thornton, who's been attending the "Children, Youth, and a New Kind of Christianity" conference in Washington, D.C. this week.] Jackson Pollock, at work.I'm not...
A New Kind of Letter
[This is the third in a series of guest blogs by Abby Thornton from the Children, Youth, and New Kind of Christianity conference being held this week in Washington, D.C.] When I taught about the books of the Bible this...
Context Is Key to Interpreting Romans 13:1-7
A critical factor for biblical interpretation is context, context, context. Nowhere is this point truer than Romans 13:1-7. As Robert Parham's recent editorial, "Romans 13 Is Weak Proof-Text for Anti-Immigration Church...
Christianity Is Largest Faith Group, Shifts South
An estimated one-third of the world's 6.9 billion people in 2010 were Christians who lived around the globe, making Christianity a global faith. While the Americas and Europe are still "home to a majority of the...
How Would Spurgeon Preach Today?
The legacy of legendary 19th century preacher Charles Spurgeon has inspired a debate about preaching today in a conference at the Baptist Assembly in Great Britain. A three-way conversation at Bloomsbury Central...
Asking New Questions
[Another guest blog by Abby Thornton, from the "Children, Youth, and a New Kind of Christianity" conference in Washington, D.C.] I’m a little embarrassed to admit it, but I spent the first 20 minutes or so of...
A New Kind of Ministry?
(The first of several guest blogs by Abby Thornton, who's attending the C.Y.N.K.C. conference in Washington, D.C.) When I became a Pastor, I also became a Children’s Minister. This was a bit of a surprise; I had...
Religious Liberty “ A Core American Value
Editor's note: This is an edited excerpt from BrucePrescott'smanuscript prepared for the ninth annual Interfaith Day of Prayer and Reflection last week in Oklahoma City. Young James Madison graduated in 1771 from the...
Immigrant Abuse Runs Rampant in Border Patrol
You must watch the disturbing two-and-a-half minute video showing a dozen Border Patrol agents beating a Hispanic to death. This is not one unfortunate incident perpetrated by rogue enforcement agents, but rather, a...
Christians Would Pay More to Block Internet Porn
More than half of Christians in the United Kingdom would be prepared to pay more to use the Internet if it meant greater restrictions on accessing porn. That's according to a new ComRes poll, commissioned by Premier...
Caring for the kids …
The bird is a placeholder. Actually, it's holding a place in a vent that leads from my furnace and emerges from the wall above my back door. Since the furnace isn't running, I'm letting it be for now -- I believe this...
Skyping Advances Common Good, Becomes New Tool on EthicsDaily.com
Alex Awad spoke from Jerusalem. Sam Harrell from Nairobi. Martin Accad from Beirut. Molly Marshall spoke about Myanmar, based on a recent trip there. Wendell Griffen spoke about prison reform, albeit from his legal...