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I write this post while on my way to Chennai, a city in southeast India where I and a pastor colleague from our Association will spend sever...

" Unless I am convinced by proofs from Scripture, or from plain and clear reason and arguments, I cannot and will not recant. To go aga...

The following is based in experiences I've had with churches I've consulted with over my nearly 20 years of service in ministry. Ove...

In case you have been living under a rock for the past five years and aren't already aware of it, one of the Republican candidates for P...

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 ...