Chris Gore’s editorial is a helpful reminder that the scope of the Great Commission is greater than we often assume.   Too often we focus on the “going” and “baptizing,” which are only aspects of the more fundamental command to “make disciples.”
One commenter of Gore’s piece, Andrew, wonders what is the best way to step forward [...]

Tucked deep within the Christianity Today archives is brief article contemplating the unlikely union of two icons, the Madonna and the Playboy Bunny.  Richard J. Mouw spotted these two symbols upon a single car some forty years ago and the experience, Mouw admits, threw him into a “frenzied attempt to absorb it into [his] theology.” [...]

(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 [...]

My good friend, Jon Elliff, has written a concise and helpful article concerning SBC life.  In this article, he gives a brief history of who Southern Baptist’s are, where we have come from and where we are going!  The article is not exhaustive, but it is very helpful, especially in light of all the “chatter” going on [...]

Church membership is important.  It is difficult to feel fully involved with a congregation when you aren’t fully connected.
Are you a member? Are you searching for a church to join? Or, do you find yourself hopping from church to church?
Please share your experiences, and share your opinions in the comments below.
If you are not familiar [...]

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 [...]

Justin Taylor has provided highlights from a 1995 Newsweek article speculating about the future of the Internet. It is amusing.

A men’s group at our church is currently reading The Trellis and the Vine, a good book that challenges a lot of conventional wisdom about ministry.  In the book, the authors provide the following quote from this youtube video from Penn Jillette, an outspoken atheist:

I am not sure what God wants me to do with this message yet, but He is definitely talking to me about it! Every church in America needs to hear this message by David Platt. It is a hard message to hear, but it is ever so true! May God use it to bring about [...]

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 [...]