When Churches Forget What it Means to be Sent

“Missional” is a bit of a buzzword these days in Christian thinking circles, as churches struggle with what it means to be “the church” in the 21st century. For sure, Christ wasn’t mincing words when he spoke the Great Commission just...

What Your Congregation Can Learn from Common Core

The Common Core State Standards guiding public education have received a lot of press in the last year, most of it negative. There has been a strong campaign to combat the misinformation about what exactly the standards are and how they will affect local school...

The Church Outside the Walls

A sermon by Randy Hyde, Pastor, Pulaski Heights Baptist Church, Little Rock, Ar. June 15, 2014 Psalm 8:1-9; Matthew 28:16-20 May I remind you of a story I have told before? Chances are, a number of you weren’t around to hear it, so it will be new to you. And if you do...

Why Evangelicals Don’t Build Bridges with Other Faiths

I finished teaching an online course on Christian-Muslim-Jewish relations at William Jessup University in California recently. I loved the enthusiasm of the students and had a great time teaching the course. More than once, a student said something like this, “I...

Responding to a Wake Up Call

A sermon by Michael Cheuk, Pastor, University Baptist Church, Charlottesville, Va. February 16, 2014. Matthew 6:26-33; Matthew 16:13-19 As many of you know, I’ve been trying to offer a “State of the UBC” address at one of our Wednesday night suppers.  But every time...