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One of the darker results of modernity is the intellectual arrogance it has created. We know what we know, and nothing can change that. Af...

There is an old peanuts' comic strip that shows Charlie Brown firing an arrow blindly into the side of a barn. The next cell shows him ...

On October 2, our Association will host our annual session at Hope Baptist Church in Laurel MD. This year's theme is "Great Lead...

On October 2, our Association will host our annual session with the theme "Great Leaders. . .Great Churches." The next day, we...

"What are you reading?" I've been hearing that question since I started out in ministry more than 19 years ago. In the begin...

"When a prophet speaks in the name of the Lord, if the word does not come to pass or come true, that is a word that the Lord has not s...

As I write, the clean-up from terrible storms that tore through the south three weeks ago continues. Two weeks ago when seeking to address ...

Does God know the future? Furthermore, has God declared the future? How much control does He actually exert over His creation? Questions of ...

This week, I'm at the Exponential conference in Orlando, the largest gathering of church planters in the world. As is usually the case ...

If you want to see tempers flare up quickly on both sides of a volatile issue, just start a conversation about illegal immigration. If ever...

This is my last installment on the subject of how to facilitate effective church planting in the Baptist Association. This post also covers...

Ideas, as Francis Shaeffer once said, have consequences, and this statement is never more true than when contemplating the result of promoti...

Former President Ronald Reagan had a particularly narrow philosophy when it came to the idea of government funding. He expressed it in thre...