by Drew Smith In my last column on this discussion network, I wrote about how we can discover contentment through the experience of God’s continual presence, the present that God gives us to live today, and the relationships God brings into each of our lives. However, as I thought more about discovering my own…
by Rev. Dr. Robert R. LaRochelle It has long been a well-established ‘given’ that the sermon plays a crucial role in any worship service. The importance of the preached word was a valuable insight of and priority established in the Reformation and in the years since the Second Vatican Council, the Roman Catholic Church…
by Allan R. Bevere One November many years ago, I was attending a conference in downtown Atlanta, Georgia. It was late in the afternoon on Sunday. I had bowed out of a couple of sessions to finish some paperwork in my hotel room. Time slipped away from me and when I finally took to…
This post is excerpted from Dr. David Alan Black’s blog, “daveblackonline“ What a powerful statement by Dr. Russ Moore, head of our own SBC Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission. Watch The Gospel vs Sunday Morning Gospel Darwinism. I love this touchstone. As I shared with my Greek students this week, my life verse is…
by Iris Davis Hello Readers, I’m sure that I am not the only person who has been through a traumatic event and used it to reach out to others who are experiencing similar circumstances. It is why some say that a “test” is part of having a “test-imony.” What do you do with that,…
by Chris Surber Jesus is compassionate. While walking the roads of Galilee, Jesus was above all things compassionate. It is God’s immeasurable compassion that saves us. Were it not for compassion borne of genuine love for His creation surely God would have left us alone in our sin or simply eradicated humanity as an imperfect…
by David Moffett-Moore Much has been written about the chaotic changes we are living through in the church. In The Great Emergence Phyllis Tickle writes about the massive rummage sale the church has every five hundred years. In The Next Christendom Phil Jenkins writes about changes on a millennial level. Bishop Spong writes Why…
by Bill Tuck www.friarsfragment.com Prejudice is deep-seated. It has a long history in our world. The Egyptians enslaved the Israelites, and Moses stood before Pharaoh and challenged him: “Let my people go.” Later when Israel became a nation, it showed great prejudice toward other nations. In fact, they declared that everybody else was a Gentile, not…
by Elgin Hushbeck, Jr. There is a growing movement on the left to increase the minimum wage, or as it been relabeled, a living or in even some cases a just wage. As the relabeling makes clear, this is often seen, not just as an economic issue, but as a moral issues in which…
by Bruce Epperly For if you keep silence at such a time as this, relief and deliverance will rise for the Jewish people from another quarter, but you and your father’s family will perish. Who knows? Perhaps you have come to royal dignity for just such a time as this. (Esther 4:14) The biblical…
