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Youth Minister Interview Questions (by Rick Patrick)

August 19, 2011 by Guest Blogger

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You’ll Know When You Get There

August 19, 2011 by Mike Leake

I tend to give the type of directions that people hate.  Actually, I give the type of directions that I hate.  You know the ones that are never detailed and usually end with something like, “don’t worry you’ll know when you get there—you can’t miss it”. Well, what if I do miss it?  What if I’m a total moron?  I am the guy that once stopped at a gas station to get directions for the building across the street.  It is possible that I could totally miss the obvious building that even a monkey could drive to. These type of directions stress me out because they require a good amount of trust … [Read more...] about You’ll Know When You Get There

Five Questions with….an IMBer Who Left

August 19, 2011 by Jeremy Parks

Today's Five Question interview is with Eddie Funkowitz. Eddie was a career worker for the IMB, but has moved on to different challenges in the US. We caught up with Eddie as he was applying for a Sam's Club membership while slurping a 64 ounce drink he got for a buck down at the Stop N Go. As always, names are changed to keep my interviewees from coming to my house and stealing my jalapenos in retaliation. Everything else is absolutely true. 1. Many IMB workers feel cut off from SBC life and trends. Returning to the North American SBC work force often means figuring out the latest … [Read more...] about Five Questions with….an IMBer Who Left

Church Splits: Causes, Cures and Calvinism

August 18, 2011 by Dave Miller

Warning:  Pastors, some of you may not like me much after you read this. But if we are going to preach the hard truths to our people, maybe sometimes we need to listen to the hard truths ourselves. Divided churches and church splits are a huge problem today. And we like to blame those sinful, divisive, unruly people for all the problems. But I am going to call the "blame the people" response into question here.  I think church splits are usually started by rebellion or ungodly attitudes among people, but they are assisted by wrong attitudes and actions by church leaders.  I hope you will … [Read more...] about Church Splits: Causes, Cures and Calvinism

Les Puryear Is Right. At least partly right, that is…

August 18, 2011 by Doug Hibbard

So, we blew up the website in the past week, partly over a post over at Les Puryear's other blog. (Who has more than one blog? Oh, yeah, I used to, then I got too lazy to keep up with them both. Anyway, nothing wrong with that.) There's much to contemplate on how that got responded to, but I've been looking at it and thinking about it. Copying his 10 posts with response here (and expecting him to point out how I've taken it wrong.) Pastor-blogger Puryear pointed out these 10 things as the problem with the SBC. 1. Preachers who reject that the Old Testament moral law is still valid today. … [Read more...] about Les Puryear Is Right. At least partly right, that is…

Time Flies: My Daughter Left for College Today

August 18, 2011 by Dave Miller

I said goodbye to my daughter this morning.  My baby girl.  Gone to Cedarville University.  I feel sad.  I feel old. I feel empty. I feel, well, let me tell you about it... I was asked a couple of decades ago to MC a "Father-Daughter Banquet" at another church.  I agreed, because any chance to stand up in front of people and fire off a few one-liners is an irresistible opportunity.  But I found it an odd request.  I was a father - to three boys; one around age 10, one around age 8 and another a toddling two-year old.  Other than my wife, we were a boys-only club - we called ourselves "The … [Read more...] about Time Flies: My Daughter Left for College Today

You Can’t Make This Stuff Up (by William Thornton)

August 17, 2011 by Guest Blogger

(from the SBC Plodder) Here is an abstract of one of those Calvinist church situations that caused me to write an earlier piece on being wary of my five-pointer brethren -  another place, I know some of the players, passed along to me by one close to the matter. Before anyone accuses me of making this stuff...you CAN'T make this stuff up. And, you can't survive in the SBC without a sense of humor. Good church calls Calvinistic pastor who proceeds to implement his vision of what the church should be. Things don’t go well. Church declines. Pastor encouraged to leave. He leaves...but not … [Read more...] about You Can’t Make This Stuff Up (by William Thornton)

My Brick Wall: Three Simple Questions (Guest Blogger)

August 17, 2011 by Guest Blogger

(A friend who has been following my Brick Walls and Picket Fences series sent this to me and asked if I would be interested in publishing it.  I appreciated that he interacted with what I wrote.  For reasons that seem reasonable to me, my friend desires to remain anonymous.  For those who are interested, he DOES attend a Southern Baptist church!) Dave Miller has been writing this past year about Brick Walls and Picket Fences that has caused me to think quite a bit about how I would define who I believe are outside a Brick Wall. I mean, the Picket Fences is to me simpler to explain than a … [Read more...] about My Brick Wall: Three Simple Questions (Guest Blogger)

The Gift that Keeps on Guilting

August 17, 2011 by Thom Hunter

Through before and through then and through forever after, Through sighs and through tears and through too-little laughter, Through pain and through sadness, through anger and fear, Through wandering away and through clinging near. Through pits of deception and mountains of truth, Through hope and through striving, through longings of youth, Through moments of stillness in search of Your voice, Through dangerous journeys of self-proclaimed choice. Through brokenness, hopelessness, running and hiding, Through moments of peace and through blessed abiding, Through hiding and fighting … [Read more...] about The Gift that Keeps on Guilting

The Christian and the Law: A Brief Consideration of Galatians

August 16, 2011 by Mike Bergman

One of the constant debates Christians seem to have concerns our relationship to the Law.  Some take the words of Jesus in Matthew 5 as an indication that we must still live under the Law, that is unless the New Testament clearly does away with some aspect of it (like the sacrificial system).  And indeed Jesus did say, “Do not think I have come to abolish the Law or the prophets; I have…come to fulfill them.”  But more than that, Jesus says, “I say to you, until heaven and earth pass away, not an iota, not a dot will pass from the Law until all is accomplished.”  He then tells us we will never … [Read more...] about The Christian and the Law: A Brief Consideration of Galatians

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