Success As Measured by the New Testament
Thursday, July 3rd, 2008 Posted in Baptist Life, Church, Culture, Les Puryear, Uncategorized | 6 Comments »I've been reading a wonderful little book entitled, Small Churches Are Beautiful. It somewhat dated as it was published in 1977, however, many of the principles cited are still valid. One point the author makes is we must measure success ...
Patriotism & Worship
Sunday, June 29th, 2008 Posted in Church, Culture, Roger Ferrell, Worship | 66 Comments »Last month, police in DeLand, Fla., began a criminal investigation after a Baptist minister who removed the American flag from his sanctuary was harassed. The Rev. Sean Oliver Allen took a month's leave after getting anonymous notes at his home ...
You Make the Call! - Episode 1
Wednesday, June 4th, 2008 Posted in Baptist Life, Church, Church Life, Culture, Current Events, Missions, Pastoral Issues, SBC Issues, Theology | 24 Comments »A Brief Word of Explanation ... I'm going to experiment with a new form of post today. Viewers of 1980's-era Monday Night Football or This Week In Baseball might remember a segment called “You Make the Call”, sponsored for quite some ...
My Personal Testimony: “Saved By Grace Through Faith Without Work or Merit”
Friday, May 9th, 2008 Posted in Baptism, Baptist Life, Bible, Book Review, Church, Church Life, Church Membership, Discipleship, Evangelism, Rob Ayers, Testimonies | 6 Comments »I have started a devotional/discipleship blog by re-creating my old blog name, 'The Fearful Teacher' - and if somebody could tell me how to get my widgets back up to the top of the sidebar, I might send them a ...
The One True Church
Wednesday, May 7th, 2008 Posted in Church, David Rogers, Ecclesiology, Unity | 95 Comments »What I am going to say here is something that may be a new idea to some of you. However, I am convinced that it has a sound biblical basis, and that its implications for us regarding the way we ...
Southern Baptist VBS … Time to “Break the Mold?”
Tuesday, May 6th, 2008 Posted in Baptist Life, Church, Church Life, Discipleship, Geoff Baggett, Missional, Missions, Student Ministry | 5 Comments »I'll never forget that day. It was late-June in 2003. Our one-year-old church was hosting its second-ever Vacation Bible School. A team of youth and adults from a sister church in Tennessee came to help us. Being the ...
Strategic Interim Ministries
Monday, May 5th, 2008 Posted in Baptist Life, Bowden McElroy, Church, Uncategorized | 4 Comments »I've been reading quite a bit about big churches, small churches, and dying churches. Today, I thought I would add churches in transition. I suppose all churches are in one sort of transition or another; I'm talking about those ...
LET THE AX FALL…Upon All the Dead Churches?
Friday, May 2nd, 2008 Posted in Baptist Life, Church, Church Life, Church Membership, Church Planting, Hariette Petersen (SelahV), Missional, SBC Issues, Uncategorized | 39 Comments »I'm a bit confused today. I've been mulling this over for quite some time and have decided to just toss out my thoughts like wood chips off the chopping block. Wherever the chips fall, we'll gather. For nearly two years I ...
Is the Sky Blue … or Is It Falling?
Thursday, May 1st, 2008 Posted in Church, Church Life, Church Membership, Current Events, Discipleship, Evangelism, Guest Authors, Missional, SBC Issues, SBC News | 16 Comments »Our guest writer today is Keith Price. Keith was born and raised on a small farm in southeastern, Michigan. He graduated from an all-boys Catholic high school in 1980 and received a B.S. in Engineering from Michigan State in ...
On Bible Translations
Friday, April 25th, 2008 Posted in Bible, Church, Roger Ferrell | 13 Comments »Demer Webb, the volunteer teaching pastor at our church (and one of my best friends) recently wrote this article in our church newsletter explaining our take on bible translations: Some of you have recently asked Roger or me about bible translations ...
