Dr. Chuck Lawless, Dean of the Billy Graham School of Missions and Evangelism at Southern Seminary, recently wrote a piece describing seven sure-fire ways to blow up a church. They are listed below, but you will want to read his descriptions of these on the SBTS website here. Seven sure-fire ways to blow up a …
Ministry to special needs adults is rare in the evangelical church. Admittedly, we don’t always know how to handle these complex ministries though we would usually agree that those among us with special life situations deserve specialized attention. Often they have the ability to share the love of Christ in ways that we can never …
The Jesus that men want to see is not the Jesus they really need to see. -G. Campbell Morgan Pastors, are you giving people the Jesus they need to see…the sinless, crucified, died, buried, resurrected, and returning King of the universe? Or are you giving them a Jesus that feels good and doesn’t demand their …
Free Coffee today at Starbucks. Join the movement. On April 15th (today), bring a reusable travel mug into your local Starbucks and get a free brewed coffee. Jennifer Knapp comes out of the closet in an exclusive interview with Christianity Today. Seven years ago, while at the top of her game, Jennifer Knapp announced what …
As a part of my PhD program at The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, I am enrolled in a colloquium that examines contemporary issues in evangelism and apologetics. The reading for this class has been great, but one of the best books I have read so far (maybe ever) for conversational apologetics and evangelism is Tactics …
“Ambition is the rankest poison in the church, when it possesses preachers. It is a consuming fire. The Holy Scripture is given to destroy the desires of the flesh; therefore we must not therein seek after temporal honour. I much marvel for what cause people are proud and haughty; we are born in sin, and …
Paul Hiebert, coined the term “Flaw of the Excluded Middle” in an article with the same name in January of 1982 to help explain some of the disparity between western understandings of our natural world and the understanding of nature by the rest of the world. Essentially, Hiebert argued that the seen is related to …
In The Trellis and The Vine, authors Colin Marshall and Tony Payne advocate for a renewed approach to ministry that focuses on ministry to individuals as well as to the group. This personalized, one-on-one approach to ministry is not new, it’s as old as Christianity itself, and has found many advocates through the years of …
“Let the pastors boldly dare all things by the word of God, of which they are constituted administrators. Let them constrain all the power, glory, and excellence of the world to give place to and to obey the divine majesty of the word. Let then enjoin everyone by it, from the highest to the lowest. …
Here is my final sermon from Christ’s 7 Words From The Cross. Appropriately on Good Friday, we should all remember that Christ was utterly content in the arms of his Father. His work was complete, Christ could rest in the presence of the Father. March 28, 2010–The Word of Contentment from Malvern Hill Baptist Church …