The Church and Home: Partners and Parallels (Part II)
In last Monday’s post, we investigated what family ministry looks like in the home. We considered what the Bible says about the nuclear family, and how that theological truth affects our homes. However, family ministry does not stop there. While we may experience the most wonderful family worship in between the four walls of our homes, we’re missing an important component if our families and we are not integrated into the life of the...
Our Fears Betray Us
In the days following the election of Donald Trump, thousands of opinion pieces have appeared in newspapers, periodicals, and online news outlets. Such pieces display everything from jubilant finger-wagging to angry finger-pointing. Some are analyzing the data gleaned from exit polling, while others are scrutinizing the counties that flipped from Obama to Trump. However, one sentiment that has emerged since around the midnight to 1am...
The Church and Home: Partners and Parallels
The Christian faith is no stranger to family. After all, we walk into church to greet Brother so-and-so, and his wife, Sister so-and-so, even though we can’t trace any biological heritage to these close Christian friends. It soon becomes apparent that the Gospel has connected Christians in such a deep way that can be described only in familial terms. When Jesus is alerted to his mother and brothers’ presence during his public...
President Donald John Trump: Now What?
By now, we’ve all heard the surprising results of the election: Republican Donald John Trump will be the forty-fifth United States President. With all of the dissatisfaction and controversy, who would have thought that he would win the presidency? Yet, call it what you will—rural v. urban, nationalist v. populist, or whatever—here we are. Sizing Up the Situation In the history of our republic, we’ve only had five other presidents with...
A Brief Exploration of General Baptist Origins
by Jesse Owens Where did Baptists come from? Some have speculated they have always existed in some place or another since the time of John the Baptist. Others have contended that Baptists’ origins lay in the European Anabaptist movement of the sixteenth century. Still others have maintained that the Baptists sprung from the English Puritan and Separatist movements in the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries. Baptists have at...
2016 Theological Symposium: The Theological Legacy of F. Leroy Forlines
by the Helwys Society Forum Last Monday and Tuesday, the Free Will Baptist Commission for Theological Integrity sponsored their twentieth annual Theological Symposium. Students, pastors, professors, and scholars of other sorts gathered at Memorial Auditorium on the campus of Welch College, in Nashville, Tennessee to hear presentations, which all, in some way, explored the theological legacy of F. Leroy Forlines. This theme was...
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