Learning About Authority While Flying Without Engines

I am learning to fly sailplanes. It is a fine hobby for someone who enjoys an adrenaline rush. I feel like a little kid, a 48-year-old kid, when I am coming in on final approach and know that there is no throttle which can be advanced, no engine upon which I might...

Tinted Windows and Bodygaurd

A sermon delivered by Randy Hyde, Pastor, Pulaski Heights Baptist Church, Little Rock, Ark., on October 21, 2012. Psalm 104:1-9, 24; Mark 10:35-45 As a child, did you ever play church? I rather doubt that our children today give church much thought when they’re not...

Finding the Truth is Tough During Political Season

Especially as we draw close to our quadrennial presidential election, we are inundated with authoritative voices telling us for whom to vote and why. It is often very difficult to find the kernel of truth hidden among the torrent of rhetoric in the various ads,...

5 Questions to Identify Your Church’s Identity

Although some say that we live in a post-denominational age, there is something comfortable and reassuring about identifying not only with a particular denominational “tribe” but a specific “clan” of that tribe.  This is true of those who call...

Context Is Key to Interpreting Romans 13:1-7

A critical factor for biblical interpretation is context, context, context. Nowhere is this point truer than Romans 13:1-7. As Robert Parham’s recent editorial, “Romans 13 Is Weak Proof-Text for Anti-Immigration Church Members,” illustrates, Romans...