Christa Brown does just that for us inBaptistland. She opens her life experiences with a rare level of vulnerability that lets us perceive the raw materials for understanding patterns in multiple sources of abuse, and in practical aspects of recovery and advocacy. She has endured the destruction ...
People loved to invent excuses to drop in to see her. She had the gift of making everyone feel like they’d known her all their lives, even after speaking with her for just a few minutes. Because she had suffered so much in her own life, she always understood when people poured out ...
They are the spiritual disciplines through which prophets as varied as Moses, John the Baptist, Jesus, Buddha, and Muhammad prepared for their ministries and received revelations that founded new religions. They are the spiritual disciplines that have been praised by poets and philosophers as diverse...
2)An Open Letter to Pastor Search Committees. I found this questionaire very interesting. It states in part, “Very few Baptist General Association of Virginia (BGAV) churches are looking for a pastor who is theologically a liberal or fundamentalist.” The document discusses fundamentalist positions...
I grew up in the Baptist church and, while I didn’t really experience this kind of prohibition first hand, I definitely heard the jokes about Baptists and not allowing dancing. Or, I still remember when I got my hands on DC Talk’s Jesus Freak album. If you didn’t grow up in the...
Truly, in light of God’s gift of community – in light of the way we have been made to live within relationships of mutual dependence upon one another – caring for the health of others in both a faithful and reasonable thing to do. We must all of us model Christ, we must all of...
“test” and “try” the spirits because there are so many false prophets and deceptive spirits out there in the world (1 John 4:1-3; 1 Timothy 4:1). Sarah Young claims to be getting messages from Jesus, but many of her messages inJesus Callinghave serious New Age implications—like ...
aspect of the meal was planned. A busy pastor could begin by asking volunteers to form a Christian Education Council assigned to create aunified system of Christian educationthat will help church members continue their Bible study “from the basket to the casket” (As our Baptist friends teach)...
than the philosophy which informs the good people of Keighley that George-Fox and Porphyry " as sert the same law of spiritual life," or that Vespasian, and Madame Guion " claim . the same experiences of the gift of God to his church" I One thing I know, th at holy George Fox...
We have also been benefited by the generous gift of time and shared experience of the roughly 700 people who have allowed us to interview them at length. While most of these people received some token remuneration for their participation (and we would have paid more if we could have), their...