Why Pastors Aren’t Perfect: An Interview with Zack Eswine
Pastors are a very unique species. They are not only called to bridge two worlds in their preaching, as the John Stott title famously put it, but to live in two worlds. They bear the demanding burden of feeding and leading the flock of God, while at the same time being members of the flock (1 Pt. 5:1-4). They must find a way daily to manage the expectations of those they serve, while living with the fact that those expectations still...
Ancient Mythology, Creation, and Hermeneutics
by Matthew McAffee What is ancient mythology, and why does it matter for biblical interpretation? This question has become an increasingly difficult one for evangelicalism in its attempts at interpreting the narratives of Genesis 1-11. Many within the academy have largely abandoned the notion that the Biblical materials reflect actual historical events. Instead, they argue that these texts represent an Israelite version of the ancient...
Christians & the Environment: An Interview with Mark Liederbach
by Zach Maloney The Helwys Society Forum is pleased to have Zach Maloney contributing a special interview this week. Zach is the Pastor for Christian Education at Tippett’s Chapel FWB Church in Clayton, North Carolina. He is also a graduate student in ethics at Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary. Southeastern Seminary happens to be home to one of the premier ethics programs among evangelical seminaries. One of their professors,...
‘Read’ This Article
Just eight days prior to this article’s post date, my wife and I celebrated our one-year wedding anniversary. One of our favorite hobbies is reading, privately to ourselves and aloud to one-another. We simply love entering a story and dissecting its characters, plots, themes, and twists and turns. Yet should reading be more than a ‘hobby’? Is it somehow related to our discipleship as Christians? I submit that it is of the utmost...
The Explicit Gospel (Matt Chandler)
Review By Cody Balfour The American Church is quickly spreading a gospel, but is it really the Gospel? First Corinthians 15:1-4 clearly states what the Gospel is: Christ crucified, buried, and resurrected. Despite this, many churches are drifting away from that crucial message. And increasingly, they fail to identify the Gospel as God Himself—a rather bold, but nevertheless biblical, message. Matt Chandler has addressed this very...
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