by Keith Herron | May 13, 2010 | Opinion
A sermon delivered by Keith Herron, Pastor, Holmeswood Baptist Church, Kansas City, Mo., on May 9, 2010. Acts 16:9-15 Even when we’re doing the will of God, we live in “in-between” times. Life, we discover, is not so much an uninterrupted continuum as much as it is a...
by John D. Pierce | May 13, 2010 | Opinion
During my time in campus ministry years ago, an engineering student from Indonesia expressed disbelief that we American Christians paid no attention to Ascension Day. Although Christianity is a minority faith there, he said, Indonesians make a big deal out of...
by Robert Parham | May 13, 2010 | Opinion
Missing from criticism about the final report of the Great Commission Resurgence Task Force, intended to reorganize the stagnant Southern Baptist Convention, is concern about the statement’s anti-public school agenda. Almost every critic of the report looks at...
by Rabbi Rami Shapiro | May 13, 2010 | Opinion
I was invited to speak at a community worship service in Nashville recently. The goal was to bring the community together after the devastating flood that took so many lives and caused over a billion dollars in damages. This is what I said: There is only one religious...
by Laura Seay | May 13, 2010 | Opinion
Editor’s note: This is the second part of a two-part series on providing humanitarian relief to Africa. I’ve been trying to sketch an outline of how Westerners tend to develop and characterize our relationship with Africa and the people who live there,...
by Chuck Queen | May 12, 2010 | Opinion
The life of Jesus, as presented in the Gospels, demonstrates a rhythm of prayer/spiritual retreat and worldly engagement that, I think, is a key to a healthy, holistic, transformational spiritual life. The pattern of discipleship that Jesus modeled was a pattern of...
