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Over the past decade, the church has witnessed an increasing emphasis on urban ministry, and rightly so! Demographic studies reveal that ma...

I knew that eventually, my eldest son and I would have to have "the conversation." But I never expected that conversation to be i...

The current situation in Iraq is, from my perspective, the epitome of irony. On the one hand, the vitriolic ideological battles at home bet...

No one can doubt that 2007 was ushered in with a torrent of big news. The death of former President Gerald Ford was certainly at the top of ...

Merry Christmas, and a Happy New Year! It has been a pleasure to participate in some very vital discussions this year, as well as to intera...

All of us find that certain Biblical commands are easier to obey than others. Personally, I have never struggled with the "active...

"Trustees . . . ." Simply the mention of the term has seemed to polarize Southern Baptists in recent days. Over the past year, m...

Tonight as I sit and write, parents are walking their children around a mall, or church parking lot, or to neighbors houses in the effort to...

When I sit down to watch television, my usual fare includes bulletts, buildings blowing up, car chases, and the like. Suffice it to say that...

In may of this year, over 30 Southern Baptists drafted a statement known as "The Memphis Declaration." Last week, another Souther...

After writing the post below, I came across a great example of the "boxer-wearing evangelical" here: http://www.imperishableinheri...

My apologies to my female readership for the frankness of the metaphor, but I honestly could not think of a better comparative picture for t...

It seems that evangelicals are in an uproar over Rosie O'Donnell's recent tirade during which our beliefs are compared with those wh...

Resources designed to help church planters bring a new congregation to life can be found in books, on discs, and online. Likewise, stories o...

I thought to myself "surely, my wife misunderstood him." One morning last week, she came into our bedroom as I was getting out of ...

Even a far-left publication like the Los Angeles Times gets it! But apparently, the most liberal wings of the church are still in denial ab...

A great paradox regarding pastoral ministry is seen in the way pastors claim that they realize they aren't "Superman," while s...

Less than three years after producing a phennomenal depiction of Christ's death and resurrection, Oscar-winning actor and director Mel G...

Over the past two decades, Evangelicals in North America have been very effective in reaching the lost, discipling them to maturity, and as ...