The year 2013 was an exciting year for the Helwys Society Forum. In addition to accessing our site at helwyssocietyforum.com, you may also find our site at thehsf.com. We hope this is easier to remember.
In addition, we had many guest contributors through the year, including Russell Moore (President of Southern Baptist Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission), Timothy George (Dean of Beeson Divinity School), Ken Myers (Host of Mars Hill Audio), Robert Picirilli (Free Will Baptist Theologian), Charles Thigpen (former President of Welch College), Clint Morgan (General Director of Free Will Baptist International Missions), and others.
However, we’re most grateful for you, our readers. We appreciate the increased readership and interest. We encourage your continued interaction with us as we seek to do God’s work through the HSF ministry. We look forward to the year 2014’s offering.
To glance back over the year, we’ve included below each contributor’s most successful post from 2013 (according to most viewed). We’ve included hyperlinks to and samples of these articles.
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From Matthew Steven Bracey: ‘Read’ This Article
Just eight days prior to this article’s post date, my wife and I celebrated our one-year wedding anniversary. One of our favorite hobbies is reading, privately to ourselves and aloud to one-another. We simply love entering a story and dissecting its characters, plots, themes, and twists and turns.
Yet should reading be more than a ‘hobby’? Is it somehow related to our discipleship as Christians? I submit that it is of the utmost importance, especially for Christians. . . .
From Jeremy Craft: Baptism and Circumcision: Where Infant Baptism Gets It Wrong
The issue of baptism is the trademark of Baptist identity. Since their beginning, Baptists have taken a unique stance on the issue of baptism: that only believer’s can be baptized. This doctrine is grounded in Paul’s words in Romans 6:3-4 . . .
Unfortunately, baptism’s important link with circumcision is not usually given its due attention by advocates of believer’s baptism. If we are to understand the true significance of believer’s baptism, we must understand it in light of . . .
From Phillip Morgan: Cultivating Righteousness: Gardening and Sanctification
I hate to admit it, but I was often a disgruntled field hand in my father’s garden. Things came to a head, however, the summer that I was fourteen. My father thought that raising pole-beans would be a great way for me and my two younger brothers to pad our portfolios . . .
Fifteen years after the great pole-bean project, I have found myself planting my own gardens that continue to expand in size and variety. In addition to producing food for my family and community, my time in the garden is also helping me spiritually. I would like to share with you some of this spiritual produce, especially as it regards the Christian life. . . .
From Jesse Owens: In Christ: Salvation & Suffering
It was with a blinding light and a commanding voice that Saul of Tarsus encountered Jesus on the road to Damascus. Having recently approved of the murder of yet another blasphemer by the name of Stephen, Saul was on his way to bring others like him bound to Jerusalem. While his encounter with Stephen was certainly unique, his encounter with the resurrected Christ was unlike anything else. . . .
The spiritual connection between Christ with His followers is properly known as the doctrine of union with Christ. . . . Because of its immeasurable importance to Christian theology, this article will explain the doctrine as it relates to both salvation and suffering. . . .
From Christopher (& Rebekah) Talbot: A Newlywed Perspective on Ephesians 5:22-33
The music cued and she turned the corner to walk down the aisle in front of me. I waited patiently on stage as I saw my bride for the first time that day. She was the most beautiful woman I had ever seen. Dressed elegantly in her ivory dress, I resisted my tears and choked down that lump in my throat more than once.
I can recount it like it was only yesterday—in part, because it hasn’t been all that long. My wife and I have only been married three months as we write this essay. . . .
As we consider Ephesians 5:22-33 together, we will consider three themes: (1) the woman’s role in marriage, (2) the man’s role in marriage, and (3) how together they paint a picture of the Gospel. . . .
From W. Jackson Watts: F. Leroy Forlines: Theology for All of Life
Few people have had more influence over the theological commitments of Free Will Baptists than Leroy Forlines (1926-present). While the inclusion of a living person in FWB Heritage month will strike some as odd, it is certainly appropriate when one considers Forlines’ impact on the Free Will Baptist denomination and Arminian theology at large. His multi-generational impact will be considered in this essay.
Franklin Leroy Forlines was born and raised on a tobacco farm in eastern North Carolina on November 14, 1926. As a child of the Great Depression, he knew both the realities of economic hardship, as well as the . . .
From a Guest: An Interview with Russell Moore
One person to whom many of the Helwys Society’s contributors are indebted is Dr. Russell Moore. Moore has written numerous books on everything from kingdom to adoption to temptation to much more. He speaks especially on issues related to theology and ethics. Since 2004, Moore has served as Dean of the School of Theology and Senior Vice President for Academic Administration. Recently he became the President-elect of the Southern Baptist Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission.
The Helwys Society Forum was recently privileged to interview Dr. Moore on everything from country music to Free Will Baptists to his recent appointment to the ERLC to much more. Check it out. . . .
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Thanks, again, to you our readers, and may God bless His work in 2014!
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