From the category archives:
LifeWay recently hit us with the latest report on Southern Baptist Decline and Ed Stetzer wrote, Will Southern Baptist’s Ignore the Ongoing Decline?. The article offered five response’s to the continued decline.
I want to offer a sixth option with two divergent paths. First of all, read Ed’s article to see where Southern Baptists are heading. [...]
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Avery Willis, giant of Southern Baptist missions, diagnosed with leukemia Print E-mail By Bob Allen Wednesday, January 06, 2010 BELLA VISTA, Ark. (ABP)
– Avery Willis, a former Southern Baptist missionary and administrator best known as developer of the MasterLife discipleship materials used around the [...]
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Victoria Stargel is 19 years old, a sophomore at Union University in Jackson, TN. She recently went to Sierra Leone, West Africa with a team of ten people from her church, First Baptist of Humboldt, TN. After her return, I asked her about the process of going on the trip, whether her age impacted her [...]
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Someone directed me to a post at a site called Downshore Drift. The posting was from Nov 25 and you can find it at the following link January 12,13 Gathering.
The article points to the fact that increasing numbers of church leaders are waking up to the responsibility we have to be proactive in missional living [...]
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You may be wondering what I think about The Shack. By the way in Josh Davis’ interview with the author we learned that he goes by Paul not William P. Young. Josh’s interview opened my eyes to the nature of the author, not for an audience of three million, but for his children. Later friends [...]
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So what do you think about the NY TImes best seller, The Shack, by William P. Young?
The book is a craze among students. They are swarming it like ants to a church picnic.
However, many our concerned that the theology falls short.
Many are aghast at the author’s presentation of God in the form of a woman. [...]
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Exclusive offer for International Mission Board!
Once again, The International Mission Board is partnering together with the Catalyst Conference. If you’ve never been to Catalyst before, this is the year to attend.
Catalyst is more than just a conference – it’s a three-day convergence of Next Generation Leaders where you’ll find yourself fully immersed in learning, [...]
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A couple of hours ago a terrorist committed an act of violence in a crowded neighborhood of Istanbul, Turkey – see the following article on-line NY Times Article on Istanbul Bombing.
Not only did they explode one bomb, they used the gruesome practice of detonating a second bomb to injure those coming to the aid [...]
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Catalyst is around the corner – October 8-10 just outside of Atlanta. Over 10,000 folks from tons of churches were there last year. By far, the best part was connecting.
Last year I connected with Chris and friends who were promoting a new concept called ROOV. That’s about all that [...]
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LL Project: Happy Dance from Last Letter on Vimeo.
