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Will students sacrifice this time around?
Religion News Service is reporting that a meeting of college students is set for Oct. 8-11 at Atlanta's Morehouse College to relaunch an effort that helped bring about significant social change long ago. The U.S....
Young Ministers Speak to the Baptist Future
Where do younger ministers think Baptists should head in the 21st century? Yesterday's editorial disclosed what a handful of seasoned, global Baptist leaders and thinkers say about the future. One shared that...
“Inception”
"Inception" is another sterling example of why Christopher Nolan is one of the great film directors of our time and maybe any time. It is a movie that plays on so many levels of our senses. It is visual, but it also...
What It Takes To Understand God’s Forgiveness
In Luke's version of Jesus giving the disciples a model of how to pray to God, the itinerant rabbi seems to assume – for that particular society in which he proclaimed and demonstrated the coming reign of God – an...
New tech and old texts
Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have produced a powerful new software program that has the potential of helping scholars resurrect ancient languages that so far have proven impenetrable.Using...
You were probably raised too Baptist, IF…
1. You thought “peacethatpassesunderstanding” was one word.2. You missed more episodes of “Walt Disney’s Wonderful World of Color” than you saw because of Sunday night services.3. You thought the tablets Moses brought...
BWA Meets, Seasoned Leaders Speak to 21st Century Future of Baptists
Having celebrated last year in Amsterdam the founding of the Baptist faith tradition 400 years ago, global Baptists turn this year in Honolulu to the future. When the Baptist World Alliance invited Baptists to attend...
Faith vs. Fear: Which Will We Allow to Win?
One of the Internet sites I frequently visit is operated by a grassroots organization known as Faithful America. Its focus is to get people of faith to address the pressing moral issues of our time, such as poverty,...
Doing What’s Right May Be Ineffective, but That’s OK
Charlie Pearl, staff writer for the Frankfort State Journal, recently interviewed Wendell Berry in the aftermath of Berry's decision to move many of his personal papers, which measure 60 cubic feet in volume, from the...
Echo Chamber
A sermon delivered by David Hughes, Pastor, First Baptist Church, Winston-Salem, Nc., on July 11, 2010. Colossians 1:3-14; 3:23-24 The Academy Award winning movie, Gladiator, features a character named Maximus played...
Free At Last ”To Serve
A sermon delivered by David Hughes, Pastor, First Baptist Church, Winston-Salem, Nc., on July 4, 2010. Galatians 5:1,13-15 Philip Dennis, pastor at Monticello (GA) Presbyterian Church, called the children to the front...
Travel Lite
A sermon delivered by Robert Browning, Pastor, Smoke Rise Baptist Church, Stone Mountain, Ga., on July 18, 2010. Luke 10:1-11 Let’s turn our attention toward traveling and how you prepare to go on a trip. What kind of...
She Had a Sister Named Mary
A sermon delivered by Randy Hyde, Pastor, Pulaski Heights Baptist Church, Little Rock, Ark., on July 18, 2010. Psalm 52:1-9; Luke 10:38-42 As you can imagine, I have ventured before...
The Imperfect-Perfect Game
A sermon delivered by Robert Browning, Pastor, Smoke Rise Baptist Church, Stone Mountain, Ga., on July 11, 2010. Communion Devotion Luke 23:33-49 Jim Leyland, the manager of the Detroit Tigers, called it the first...
Holy Rage
A sermon delivered by Wendell Griffen, Pastor, New Millennium Church, Little Rock, Ark., on July 18, 2010. Amos 8:1-12; Psalm 52; Luke 10:38-42 We do not often hear sermons dealing with rage, holy or otherwise,...
Making sense of scents
Walking the dog for several early morning miles allows the mind to wander along little-used pathways of thought and to raise questions that wouldn't ordinarily occur.This morning, for example, as I trailed behind our...
Why Do Some Politicize God’s Will?
Ultimately, it is inexpedient to faith and injurious to religion for one to claim to know the will or plan of God in partisan politics. As it always seems to turn out, it's not all that good for politics either. I will...
Reject Power-Hungry Leaders Who Promote Fear of Islam
I am a lover of God and a student of religion. I do my best to understand the nature of religion, and how it justifies the worst of which we are capable as well as calls us to the best. There are people of faith on all...
Five Reasons Churches Balk at Open Discussions
The story is told that Brooks Hays, the legendary congressman and Baptist layman from Arkansas, was walking along the street with a friend one day when he was accosted by a rather antagonistic woman who wanted to...
True Wisdom
A sermon delivered by Joel Snider, Pastor, First Baptist Church, Rome, Ga., on July 11, 2010. Proverbs 3:13-26 Morning Prayer: O God of all love, you know our hearts and you provide each of our needs. We confess...
Looking For Amos
A sermon delivered by Wendell Griffen, Pastor, New Millennium Church, Little Rock, Ark., on July 11, 2010. Give justice to the weak and the orphan; maintain the right of the lowly and the destitute. Rescue the weak...