by Bader Mansour | Apr 28, 2016 | Opinion
Even though I am not Jewish, many times I receive greetings for Jewish holidays. Being an Israeli citizen, you get quite a lot of these automatic email greetings. This year, only one person sent me a greeting for Passover – the infamous Israel lawmaker, Bezalel...
by Dennis Bickers | Apr 28, 2016 | Opinion
There is an elephant in the room that many churches are trying to ignore: future finances. Many small, struggling churches survive financially today because of the faithful giving of people in the past. When churches were full of the Builder generation, the giving was...
by John D. Pierce | Apr 27, 2016 | Opinion
By John D. Pierce Kathryn Hamrick, who wrote columns for several years for Baptists Today news journal and for three decades in local newspapers, has compiled nearly 100 of her approximately 1,250 columns into a book titled The Farmer’s Wife. During about half the...
by Glen Marshall | Apr 27, 2016 | Opinion
Jesus seemed to think that evangelism was an important part of being a disciple. He told Simon and Andrew that to follow him would mean fishing for people. He told those of his friends who stuck with him in Jerusalem that when he sent the Holy Spirit, they would end...
by Paul Beasley-Murray | Apr 27, 2016 | Opinion
Scripture should be central in worship, and Anglican services do precisely that. So says David Kennedy in his book, “Understanding Anglican Worship.” In support of this contention, he quoted John Wesley, “I believe there is no liturgy in the world,...
by Guy Sayles | Apr 27, 2016 | Opinion
I’ve often traveled north on Interstate 26 / U.S. Highway 23 into the broken heart of eastern Kentucky’s coal country over the last few months. The land looks weary. There are gashes in the hillsides, which huge machines have stripped bare not only of coal...
