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The Urgency of Preaching

And how will they hear without a preacher? Romans 10:14 Has preaching fallen on hard times? An open debate is now being waged over the character and centrality of preaching in the church. At stake is nothing less than the integrity of Christian ...

July 16, 2009

Ministry is Stranger Than it Used to Be: The Challenge of Postmodernism

A common concern now seems to emerge wherever ministers gather--ministry is stranger than it used to be. Not that ministry is more difficult, more tiring, or more demanding . . . just different--and increasingly strange. That sense of strangen ...

July 16, 2009

Biblical Pattern of Male Leadership Limits Pastorate to Men

The Christian church has experienced a massive wave of change over the last thirty years, and the emergence of women in some pulpits is perhaps the most visible sign of that change. Why would Southern Baptists resist this trend? The easiest co ...

July 16, 2009

“You May Kill Us, but You Can Never Hurt Us:” The Witness of Modern Martyrs

When Pastor Al Meredith entered the pulpit of Wedgwood Baptist Church September 19, he addressed the question nearly everyone was asking: "Where is God in all this?" And the "all this" was almost too horrible to remember. Just four days befor ...

July 16, 2009

Missions at Risk: A Failure of Nerve

America's evangelical Christians are facing a critical testing-time as the twentieth century draws to a close. Among the most important of the tests we now face is the future of missions, and our faithfulness to the Great Commission. Just as d ...

July 16, 2009

McDermott the Missiologist: The Congressman Lectures Southern Baptists on Evangelism

Rep. Jim McDermott is a man on a mission. The congressman represents Washington state's 7th district, and he is known as one of the most liberal members of the U. S. House of Representatives. His crusading efforts for the liberal cause include ...

July 16, 2009

Keeping The Faith In a Faithless Age: The Church As The Moral Minority

"The greatest question of our time," offered historian Will Durant, "is not communism versus individualism, not Europe versus America, not even East versus the West; it is whether men can live without God." That question, it now appears, will b ...

July 16, 2009

One Faith, One Task, One Sacred Trust

"You therefore, my son, be strong in the grace that is in Christ Jesus. And the things that you have heard from me among many witnesses, commit these to faithful men who will be able to teach others also." II Timothy 2:1-2 For over 135 years, t ...

July 14, 2009

Joining the Christian Counter-Revolution

Throughout the centuries, Christians have faced the vexing question: How are we to live as Christians in the midst of a secular culture? This question reaches to the heart of Christian discipleship and the meaning of the Gospel-and challenges t ...

July 14, 2009

Consider Your Calling: The Call to the Ministry

Has God called you to ministry? Though all Christians are called to serve the cause of Christ, God calls certain persons to serve the Church as pastors and other ministers. Writing to young Timothy, the Apostle Paul confirmed that if a man aspi ...

July 14, 2009

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