Recommended Books (Autumn 2025)
This autumn we would like to share some good reads we discovered over the past few months. These selections represent a wide array of topics we think will interest you. Some selections will be great for personal reading, others for family time. Most of all, we think they will broaden your understanding of God’s creation and His work in it because they have had that result in our lives. Please leave us your favorite reads in the...
The Author of Hebrews and the Means of Motivation
The author of Hebrews has been referred to as “an expert in rhetoric and style,” a fitting description considering the many rhetorical devices employed throughout the book.[1] Although it is far beyond the scope of this essay to examine the author’s entire rhetorical approach thoroughly, it is helpful to explore some of the techniques he employed in the third warning passage (5:11–6:12). The focus on his rhetorical approach in the...
Recommended Books (Summer 2025)
This summer we would like to share some good reads we discovered over the past few months. These selections represent a wide array of topics we think will interest you. Some selections will be great for personal reading, others for family time. Most of all, we think they will broaden your understanding of God’s creation and His work in it because they have had that result in our lives. Please leave us your favorite reads in the...
HSF Conversations: “Tell Me About Your Sermon Prep” with Jeff Jones
In this episode of HSF Conversations, we continue our series “Tell Us About Your Sermon Prep” with Dr. Jeff Jones. Dr. Jones has served as pastor of Hilltop Free Will Baptist Church for over thirty years. He also serves as president of Southeastern Free Will Baptist College where he has taught homiletics for many years. In this episode, he shares with us some of his practices for sermon preparation, including what an ideal...
What Has Ararat to Do with Asia Minor?
by Ed Goode Applying the imagery in the Song of Solomon to the relationship between God and His church, it tells us that the Lord sees His church being as “beautiful as the moon, bright as the sun, awesome as an army with banners” (6:10, ESV). However, we are sometimes tempted to doubt this depiction when we walk into a meeting house to find weak coffee, ordinary people, and a minister who might be doing his best but cannot hold a...
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