Category Archives: Evangelism

Monday Exposition Idea:
For the Gospel’s Sake
(1 Corinthians 9:19-23)

By Franklin L. Kirksey, Pastor, First Baptist Church of Spanish Fort, Alabama, and author of Sound Biblical Preaching: Giving the Bible a Voice. These expositions by Dr. Kirksey are offered to suggest sermon or Bible study ideas for pastors and … Continue reading

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Theological Vocabulary Thursday
The Free Offer of the Gospel

  By Ron F. Hale, Minister of Missions, West Jackson Baptist Church. Jackson, TN Does God have a universal saving will that desires the salvation of all people who will believe, or was our Lord’s atonement only sufficient for some? … Continue reading

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Lessons Learned from Iraq that Apply to Ministry Anywhere:
A Southern Baptist Chaplain in Action

By Dr. Page Brooks, Chaplain for the Louisiana National Guard, Assistant Professor of Theology and Islamic Studies at New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary, and Founding Co-Pastor of the Mosaic Church in New Orleans Throughout the Bible we see where God … Continue reading

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A Further Explanation about GCR

By Dr. Ted Traylor, Pastor, Olive Baptist Church, Pensacola, FL Dr. Ted Traylor, Pastor of Olive Baptist Church in Pensacola, Florida and member of the Great Commission Resurgence Task Force, shared his perspective about GCR on the New Orleans Baptist Theological … Continue reading

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Thursday is for Theological Terminology:
The Study of Specialized Words relating to Theology

by Ron F. Hale, Minister of Missions, West Jackson Baptist Church, Jackson, TN Heilsgeschichte (Holy History) My seminary class was just after lunch and I was already suffering from sleep deprivation due to late nights of study and long days … Continue reading

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Student Not Better than Teacher

Dr. David Crosby, Pastor, First Baptist Church, New Orleans, LA A friend told me last Sunday, “I want to take the country back.” He meant by this, I think, that he wanted to return to a time when the United … Continue reading

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Thank God for the CR

One of the reasons that the CR was needed is illustrated by the recent string of articles in the Associated Baptist Press on women pastors.  There are some people in our SBC sphere of existence who wish to rewrite history, … Continue reading

Posted in Baptist Identity, Convictions, Doctrine, egalitarianism, Evangelism, Homosexuality, SBC, SBC Issues, Scripture, Theological Error | 251 Comments

How Lost People See Us?

I was reading the On Mission magazine from NAMB when I saw a study done by the Barna Research Group.  The research was done to show how lost people between the ages of 16 to 29 see evangelical Christians.  I’m … Continue reading

Posted in Contextualization, Convictions, Evangelism, Gospel issues, Great Commission Resurgence, Uncategorized | 128 Comments

A Movement Toward the Social Gospel?

Dr. Walter Rauschenbusch is the primary theologian of the Social Gospel.  Dr. Rauschenbusch was a Baptist theologian writing around the turn of the 20th Century.  He was castigated because of his opposition to World War I and after the war, … Continue reading

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I'm Not Sorry for Being a Christian

It’s really sad to hear some people whine and cry and complain about the way that some Christians have messed up in the past, or about all the bad things that they think are happening now.  It’s really sad to … Continue reading

Posted in Abortion, Apologetics, Church, Convictions, Doctrine, Evangelism, Gospel issues, Homosexuality, Marriage, News, Pastors, Postmodernism, Uncategorized | 113 Comments