by Zach Dawes Jr | Jan 3, 2014 | Opinion
No matter how bright or dark this past year has been, a new year brings the light of a wide-open future. This is a time of year when we all sense that we have a clean slate – a feeling expressed in our resolutions to do or to be something different, something...
by Dennis Bickers | Jan 3, 2014 | Opinion
One of the problems impacting the ability of some ministers seeking to find a place to serve is the growing numbers of churches that are becoming bivocational. My region currently has many more bivocational churches seeking pastors than we have fully funded churches...
by Tony W. Cartledge | Jan 2, 2014 | Opinion
Image from http://www.hdwallpapersinn.com.So here it is, another new year, and I find myself making the same resolutions I made last year, and the year before. Perhaps you’ve had that experience? Surprisingly, I don’t find that frustrating at all. Such...
by Larry Eubanks | Dec 31, 2013 | Opinion
They’ve been called kings, wise men, astrologers, sorcerers and magicians, but we ought to call them what they are: magi. I know that doesn’t tell us anything about them, but that’s the point. We know what all those other descriptions imply, so we...
by Robert Parham | Dec 31, 2013 | Opinion
Linda Leathers is EthicsDaily.com’s pick as Baptist of the Year for 2013. She is the CEO of The Next Door (TND), a Nashville-based prison ministry that seeks to meet the abundant needs of women released from prison, one of which is helping them stay away from...
by Danny Chisholm | Dec 30, 2013 | Opinion
In the book “The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe,” C.S. Lewis takes us to the land of Narnia. When it is living under the authority of the White Witch, it is “always winter, never Christmas.” There are people living today who are living in a...