Friday, March 12, 2010
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Why We Podcast, Blog, Use Social Media

By Brent Prentice • March 5, 2010 • 3 Comments

(In January Cory Miller wrote an article about leveraging social media for the gospel. The following blog is an example of the kind of useful “tool” that the Internet and social media can be for churches and the gospel. I originally wrote this so that our church would understand why and how we engage people [...]

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“Daily Prayers For Men” from a Godly Young Man

By Brent Prentice • March 3, 2010 • Leave a Comment

Brent Jenkins is a senior at Oklahoma State in Stillwater and an active participant and leader at the Baptist Collegiate Ministry (BCM). He is also a faithful and committed member at the church I pastor, Eagle Heights. I have spent countless hours with him over his time at OSU talking about God, hermeneutics, purity, leadership [...]

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Our Broken World and Gender-Based Abortion

By Brent Prentice • February 22, 2010 • Leave a Comment

Can you imagine a perfect place? I am thankful for the sustaining hope of a new creation but a place with no more tears, death, mourning, crying or pain seems so foreign to me from the vantage point of this very broken world.
We live in very broken creation that is inhabited by broken people. In The [...]

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Abortion and Murder and the Need for Jesus

By Brent Prentice • February 22, 2010 • 2 Comments

When writing about the tragic act of abortion I am very mindful that I may in fact may be perceived as a hateful and condemning person who doesn’t understand the struggles and dilemmas that lead women (sometimes with the encouragement or consent of the father or partner) to make the decision to abort a little [...]

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34 Proverb-like suggestions

By Brent Prentice • February 15, 2010 • Leave a Comment

Editor’s Note: The Baptist Messenger recently launched a group blog as part of the Messenger InSight Network. Jeremy Freeman and Brent Prentice posted these articles on the Messenger InSight blog. Follow the blog here: http://baptistmessenger.com/category/insight-network/
“To give prudence to the naive, To the youth knowledge and discretion, A wise man will hear and increase in learning, [...]

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Atheist Richard Dawkins on The Sin of Labeling Children

By Brent Prentice • February 10, 2010 • 16 Comments

As strange as it may seem, I follow some prominent atheists on Twitter. I do it because I believe that the “New Atheist” movement is presently, and will continue be too influential to ignore. I have written earlier that the aggressiveness of this “New Atheism” creates a potential head-on collision for Christians, and all thinking [...]

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34 Proverb-Like Suggestions

By Brent Prentice • February 8, 2010 • Leave a Comment

“To give prudence to the naive, To the youth knowledge and discretion, A wise man will hear and increase in learning, and a man of understanding will acquire wise counsel…..” Proverbs 1:4-5
“Fools despise wisdom and instruction.” Proverbs 1:7
One of the remarkable things about Proverbs, among many, is that it is full of wisdom and truth [...]

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Missional Ministry Conference – I Just Registered

By Brent Prentice • February 1, 2010 • Leave a Comment

I attended the Missional Ministry Conference last year and found it to be very challenging and helpful. For something that is close (in Norman, Oklahoma) and for the price ($85), it is an exceptional and thought-provoking value. I registered just this morning (02-10-2010) and I would hope that there would be many other pastors in [...]

Matt Chandler Is Suffering Well

By Brent Prentice • February 1, 2010 • 1 Comment

It has been a couple of months since Matt Chandler collapsed at his home on Thanksgiving morning from a seizure, which resulted in the discovery of a brain tumor that normally gives a person about three years to live. His story is now impacting multitudes of people as his fight against brain cancer has been [...]

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“The Shack” Keeps Coming Back

By Brent Prentice • January 28, 2010 • Leave a Comment

I had not heard about The Shack in a while, but on January 27th two very popular and well-respected leaders among evangelical Christians posted blogs raising various concerns about the widely popular book. Tim Keller, on the Gospel Coalition Blog gave some impressions from his reading of the book but mostly devoted his words to [...]

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