Jesus Is Glorious and His Glory Is for the Nations
by Daniel Speer In my last essay, I argued that the glory of Christ is at the heart of the missio Dei, and, thus, our work in missions. Unfortunately, many have forgotten the true nature of their callings and have embraced sociologically based growth models and watered-down doctrine to achieve numerical results while ignoring the importance of developing true Christian discipleship. In this essay, we will look to see how...
A Broader Understanding of God’s Mission
by Daniel Speer The Church is called to serve God with excellence in all of life. The entirety of our stewardship over creation is part of our duty to God. Our family life, literary engagement, political thinking, and media usage are all part of the ministry of God’s cosmic kingdom. The spread of the gospel at home and abroad is also part of that work. As such, missions should receive the same careful reflective attention that we call...
Christianity and Liberalism at 100 Years
In 1922, Harry Emerson Fosdick (1878–1969) preached a sermon entitled “Shall the Fundamentalists Win?” at the First Presbyterian Church in Manhattan, New York.[1] In the decade prior to Fosdick’s sermon, Americans had suffered through the First World War, and American Protestants (particularly the Baptists and Presbyterians) were amid the Fundamentalist-Modernist controversy. Fosdick’s “Shall the Fundamentalists Win?” was a call for...
A Perspective on Pastoral Celibacy
by Brandon K. Presley and Joshua R. Colson Throughout church history, many have raised questions about the relationship between ministry and marriage. One of the most intriguing questions is whether Christian ministers should be free to marry or forced to abstain from nuptials. Evangelical readers likely heartily affirm the freedom of pastors to marry—and rightly so. However, evangelical leaders sometimes remain skeptical about...
A Meditation on Trees: Beauty, Majesty, Thanksgiving
Scene “Another cold and dreary day,” Tom grumbled, lookeding out of the window. He was unhappy with the world and with life—for no particular reason. He had been locked in his house for the past week. An ice storm had come through, keeping him from leaving home. But today he and his wife, Jane, were going to brave the roads. “We’re leaving the house for a few hours,” Jane told Snowdrop, the family cat, as husband and wife bundled up...
Interview about F. Leroy Forlines’s “Secularism and the American Republic”
Last week we published a book review of F. Leroy Forlines’s newest publication, Secularism and the American Republic. This week we post an interview between its editor, Matthew Steven Bracey, and Eddie Moody, Executive Secretary of the National Association of Free Will Baptists, who hosts the Better Together Podcast. Moody asks Bracey about what led Forlines to pursue this topic, what Forlines’s hope for the book was, as well as about...
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