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 ...
Vacation And The Law Of The Indispensible
Monday, June 2nd, 2008 Posted in Family, Pastoral Issues, Roger Ferrell | 11 Comments »It's Sunday night and its been a long 14-hour day of work pastoring a church. And know what? I feel great. Know why? I just got back from a glorious 13-day vacation. Now I know what you are thinking. 13 ...
A Cascade of Hunger
Tuesday, May 20th, 2008 Posted in Missional, Roger Ferrell | 10 Comments »SEOUL, South Korea (AP) -- North Koreans are dying because of food shortages in rural areas, and a massive famine is just a matter of time, a South Korean aid group said Friday. The food situation was as bad as ...
Studying The Bible For The Glory Of God
Thursday, May 8th, 2008 Posted in Bible, Devotions, Discipleship, Roger Ferrell | 3 Comments »I believe that the one chief reason that I have been kept in happy useful service is that I have been a lover of Holy Scripture. It has been my habit to read the Bible through four times a year; ...
Economic Stimulus Payment & Christ
Monday, April 28th, 2008 Posted in Current Events, Roger Ferrell, Uncategorized | No Comments »From the Pen of John Piper ... For a moment, forget the political puzzle of getting money back when the country is nine trillion dollars in debt. The more immediate question is: How will you make much of Christ with your ...
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 ...
Kinetic Church Planting
Tuesday, April 15th, 2008 Posted in Church Planting, Missional, Roger Ferrell | 4 Comments »And on that day a great persecution arose against the church in Jerusalem; and they were all scattered throughout the regions of Judea and Samaria, except the apostles... therefore, those who had been scattered went about preaching the word. ...
Reaching postmoderns with the gospel
Wednesday, April 2nd, 2008 Posted in Church, Culture, Evangelism, Roger Ferrell | 12 Comments »I'm not sure why, but my state convention asked me a few months ago to teach a breakout session at their upcoming School of Evangelism later this month. The title (theirs) is Sharing Jesus in my World (Personal Evangelism in ...
Where Should the Church NOT Meet?
Friday, March 21st, 2008 Posted in Church, Church Planting, Evangelism, Roger Ferrell, Worship | 31 Comments »I have posted before about our church's new outreach to a retail center about 20 minutes from our campus. We have been reaching out since the first of the year to the folks working at The Avenues Webb Gin. Our ...
Video Game Addiction & The Church
Friday, March 7th, 2008 Posted in Church Life, Culture, Family, Roger Ferrell | 8 Comments »I am the father of two boys and a girl. My kids all have various interests, from sword-fighting to trampoline-jumping to playing in the woods to raising chickens to reading. But they also all spend some time playing video games. ...
