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Hand-in-Glove with God
Sermon delivered by David Hughes, pastor of First Baptist Church in Winston-Salem, N.C., on August 30 2009. John 5:19-20, 30 If I were to ask you the following question, and you were brutally honest in your...
Invitation to a Journey
Sermon delivered by David Hughes, pastor of First Baptist Church in Winston-Salem, N.C., on August 22 2009. 2 Corinthians 3:18; Ephesians 4:13; Colossians 3:9-10 Today’s sermon is unusual in two...
The Bread of Life
Sermon delivered by David Hughes, pastor of First Baptist Church in Winston-Salem, N.C., on August 2 2009. John 6:24-35 Recently in Dallas, a “Husband Shopping Center” opened where women could go to choose...
A Sacred Rhythm
Sermon delivered by David Hughes, pastor of First Baptist Church in Winston-Salem, N.C., on July 19 2009. Mark 6:30-34, 53-56 For Jesus and his disciples, it was such an exciting time. And a terribly...
Calvin at 500
Sermon delivered by David Hughes, pastor of First Baptist Church in Winston-Salem, N.C., on July 12 2009. Ephesians 1:3-14 One of the benefits of being a television preacher is that you receive feedback not...
The Power of Ritual
Sermon delivered by David Hughes, pastor of First Baptist Church in Winston-Salem, N.C., on July 5 2009. Mark 6:1-13 Have you ever considered the power of ritual? We’re in a Fourth of July weekend...
Good Timing
Sermon delivered by David Hughes, pastor of First Baptist Church in Winston-Salem, N.C., on June 14 2009. John 12:1-8 Is there ever a good time to sky jump out of an airplane? Apparently, former President George H. W....
Worthy of the Sabbath
Sermon delivered by Joel Snider, pastor of First Baptist Church in Rome, Ga., on September 6, 2009. Mark 3:1-6 Meditation Text: Today most Western Christians, frankly, are in a bit of a muddle on the issue...
Sources of inspiration
Pat Terry threw The Beatles' "Nowhere Man" into the mix of his original songs during a coffeehouse concert in Macon on Sunday evening. He told of catching the Beatles on the Ed Sullivan Show in February 1964 and...
Step Seven: Little Agreement Among End-Times Authors
Editor's note: This is the seventh part of an ongoing series in which Bruce Prescott, executive director of Mainstream Oklahoma Baptists, reviews the steps that led him away from fundamentalism. Before I went to...
The Other: Standing Up for Those Who Are Different
It's not human nature for us to look outside the fence of our own lives and to see clearly "the other." This year I've learned the term "the other" is recognized as anyone outside our own culture or our own world of...
Cross Purposes: Will the Church Return to Its Roots?
The Gospels narrate their stories as if Jesus knew he would be put to death by Roman authorities. While the authors offer backward-looking theological interpretations of Jesus, and not necessarily fully historical...
Identifying Jesus
This sermon was delivered by Wendell Griffen, pastor of the New Millennium Church in Little Rock, Ark., on September 13, 2009. Proverbs 1:20-33; Mark 8:27-38 It is interesting to notice the way that Jesus...
Campbell students not deprived
I'm happy for Campbell University's law school (officially the Norman A. Wiggins School of Law), which moves into fancy new digs in downtown Raleigh this week. Moving the school from bucolic Buies Creek to the capital...
Health Care Debate? It’s More About Shouting Slogans
Let's start with a truth. Much of what passes for debate about health care amounts to nothing more than pundits and people shouting slogans at each other. Their talking points could not pass muster in a high school...
Step Six: What I Learned From a ‘Liberal’ Theologian
Editor's note: This is the sixth part of an ongoing series in which Bruce Prescott, executive director of Mainstream Oklahoma Baptists, reviews the steps that led him away from fundamentalism. My first encounter with a...
The Last Word: Controlling Translations of the Bible
One of the most popular biblical translations among evangelical conservatives is the New International Version. Introduced in 1978, and immediately endorsed by Billy Graham, the NIV has sold more than 300 million...
An immeasurable influence on young lives
Next weekend former students of the late LSU campus minister Frank Horton will return to Baton Rouge to celebrate his influential life. His son-in-law Bob Guffey (pastor of First Baptist Church of Conway, S.C.)...
Ethanol, schmethanol
This is not a new subject, but one that came to mind recently when I had a hard time finding gasoline that wasn't blended with 10 percent ethanol: does the ethanol-laced product reduce your gas mileage as much as...
Lyons Loses Bid to Regain National Baptist Presidency
The comeback of Henry Lyons, senior pastor of New Salem Baptist Church in Tampa, Fla., fell well short during voting Thursday at the annual convention of the National Baptist Convention, USA, Inc. Lyons, who led the...
Take Your Gun and Gospel to Church
Coming, perhaps, to a sanctuary near your home is a new version of the Bible, one released by the National Rifle Association. It has a camouflaged cover, quotations from some of America's great patriots at the...