By David Sutton
In 1989, an expectant crowd was listening to the national anthem at beautiful Park in San Francisco. The stadium was filled to capacity, and everyone was there to have a good time watching the Oakland As and the San Francisco Giants compete in game three of the World Series.
About halfway through the national anthem, the ground beneath the stadium began to shake furiously to the shock and dismay of the crowd. Thousands of crazed fans, fearing the stadium might collapse beneath them, stampeded from the stands. In the following moments, all around the San Francisco Bay area, bridges were falling, freeways were wobbling, homes toppling, and entire neighborhoods were set ablaze. (more…)
By Brent Nix I just got off the phone with someone who tried to convince me that I should be outraged enough about a recent political scandal to send money to support an effort to do something or other about it. After listening for a couple of minutes, I hung up. Rude, you say? Perhaps, [...]
By Jeff Crabtree The Church is in the world…of computers. Most church leaders realize the Internet and other forms of digital communication hold great potential for personal ministry. Ministry updates take seconds instead of weeks. Urgent prayer requests, devotional materials and good humor can be shared with a few keystrokes. As you dive into the [...]
In this information age, when the church competes with Internet, television, video games, and smart phones for the attention of the congregation, how can you capture the attention of your readers? The church must develop attention-grabbing, high impact material that meets the following criterion.
By Keith Burden It had been a long week at graduate school. I was attending a modular course on the Free Will Baptist Bible College campus. The class had been practical and challenging, but 32 hours of instruction and interaction left me exhausted. The session concluded Friday at noon. I decided to skip lunch and [...]
By Brent Nix I just got off the phone with someone who tried to convince me that I should be outraged enough about a recent political scandal to send money to support an effort to do something or other about it. After listening for a couple of minutes, I hung up. Rude, you say? Perhaps, [...]
By Dennis Wiggs I encourage every young pastor to establish a daily, systematic Bible reading schedule. In conjunction with this, develop your prayer plan, too. You will soon discover, however, that this project will demand more self-discipline than daily Bible reading.
The young pastor must learn early in the ministry the value of a daily quiet time with the Lord. George Mueller wrote, “l have known my Lord for 57 years, and there has never been a single day that I have failed to gain an audience with the King.”
By Brent Nix I just got off the phone with someone who tried to convince me that I should be outraged enough about a recent political scandal to send money to support an effort to do something or other about it. After listening for a couple of minutes, I hung up. Rude, you say? Perhaps, [...]
By David Sutton In 1989, an expectant crowd was listening to the national anthem at beautiful Park in San Francisco. The stadium was filled to capacity, and everyone was there to have a good time watching the Oakland As and the San Francisco Giants compete in game three of the World Series. About halfway through [...]