by Griff Martin | Oct 4, 2013 | Opinion
I have been really upset over the shooting at the Westgate Mall in Kenya a few weeks ago. It’s not just the fact that there was more violence in our world – another senseless shooting leaving people dead because of violence. Certainly these things affected me,...
by Robert Parham | Oct 4, 2013 | Opinion
Ever heard of a development event for a Baptist organization that featured the testimonies of a Catholic bishop and a president of a Methodist foundation? Not likely. Yet one actually took place on Oct. 1 in Little Rock, Ark. The very day that the United States...
by Colin Harris | Oct 3, 2013 | Opinion
Most introductory courses to the New Testament begin with attention to the context of first-century Judaism. A part of that attention notes the “parties” among the Jews of the time. The Sadducees were the well-to-do aristocratic and priestly Jewish upper...
by Larry Eubanks | Oct 3, 2013 | Opinion
It’s too easy when reading about ancient history from the Bible to allow our eyes to roll back in our head out of boredom. Most of that boredom is because we think that it just isn’t relevant to our lives today, though this is not the case more often than...
by Dennis Atwood | Oct 3, 2013 | Opinion
I had the privilege of sitting in on our youth Bible study one recent Sunday night. The topic was “decisions” and our associate pastor, Felicia Fox, was doing an awesome job of managing the chaos of 10 preteen and teenage boys. After asking one of the...
by Tony W. Cartledge | Oct 2, 2013 | Opinion
We’ve all seen it, I’m sure — most commonly when we were four or five years old, maybe even nine or ten, in more elaborate fashion. Some kid makes a loud noise in class, or draws an ugly caricature of the teacher on the blackboard, and when the...
