by Robert Parham | Jun 18, 2012 | Opinion
Everything I knew about the Church of Christ, better known pejoratively among Baptists as Campbellites, is probably wrong. What I experienced recently at a spectacular event at Nashville’s Lipscomb University was contextually prophetic, musically energizing,...
by Guy Sayles | May 28, 2012 | Opinion
As is well known, in a debate over the payment of taxes, Jesus asserted that we are to “render to Caesar the things that are Caesar’s and to God the things that are God’s.” George Weigel called this “a revolutionary text.” With...
by Colin Harris | Nov 18, 2011 | Opinion
Some of the more interesting discoveries a teacher gets to make come from listening to students who are discovering things for themselves. One of these occurred recently in a class on the prophetic literature of the Old Testament as we were looking at the...
by Zach Dawes Jr | Oct 24, 2011 | Opinion
While I love reading the biblical prophets, preaching from them is a difficult, daunting task. I imagine many of us who are engaged in regular preaching often avoid the prophetic texts when they appear in the lectionary because the other three lections often seem more...
by Kathy Pickett | Aug 24, 2011 | General
A sermon delivered byKathy Pickett, associate pastor, Holmeswood Baptist Church, Kansas City, Mo., on August 21, 2011, in the ordination service for Kate Hanch. Isaiah 52: 7-10 I asked Kate Hanch why she chose this prophetic text for her ordination sermon, “It makes...
