Resources from 1995

Over the past few years, editorials in state papers across the SBC have lamented the arrival of conservative leadership on our seminary campuses. The latest round of commentaries have included a call by one editor for churches to actually boycott graduates from Southeastern, another called for the creation of a seminary to compete with Southern […]

The non-Christian world continues to find ways to shift attention away from God to material things, and at Christmas, the problem is even more noticeable. Our society has moved from a time, several hundred years ago, when gifts at Christmas were almost non-existent to the current material focus where we feel guilty if gifts don't […]

As the first of the Baby Boomers turns 50 next year, it's time to ask about their commitment to missions funding. Most people agree with the premise that America's senior adults support charity more than do their children. Sociologist and author George Barna, for example, reports in "What Americans Believe: An Annual Survey of Values […]

      Be Careful What You Pray For; God Answers Prayers After nearly being hit by a beer bottle thrown by a passing motorist, Nashville Police Officer Tim Sullivan began pursuit of the car not knowing the situation was an answer to prayer. As he pulled the motorist over, Sullivan saw the driver was […]

Have you ever thought what it's like to be a kid at the grocery store? Mother is in a hurry and she takes the kid and stuffs him into the steel seat and says, "Sit there and be quiet. I've got to pick up a couple of things." Now when mother says a "couple of […]

It has been a year since last Thanksgiving. And I will forever hold in my heart that wonderful November day in 1994. I led a devotional service for the Green Bay Packers, just before they went out onto the field to play Dallas. I'm a closet Green Bay supporter (the only safe kind of Green […]

The new task force named to facilitate the SBC's move into the 21st century will "analyze, study and take actions necessary" for an orderly and timely transition. The implementation task force has six areas of responsibility: • Legal issues "necessary for timely implementation," such as the dissolution or revision of various entities' charters. • Financial […]

Ministry is more than a black-or-white issue for an interracial church in Hopkinsville, KY. After only one year, Means Avenue Baptist Church has created a demographic diversity few Baptist churches could top. With 70 percent African-Americans, 30 percent Caucasians and several Hispanics, the mission church has formed a truly integrated congregation. In August 1994, Pastor […]

It's been said that everything God uses, he must first reduce to nothing. Prayer is God's wrecking ball. Through diligent and consistent communion, God strips away the pride we have in our abilities and talents, the pride we have even in our own spirituality. He takes our complicated facades of faith and reduces them to […]

It's popular today, even among pastors, to say that theology is unimportant. It's not practical, some say, and many question spending time learning doctrine and theology when there's so much more to do. But theology provides the framework for an intelligent conversation about Christian beliefs, and those who are illiterate about the subject are vulnerable to the hot winds of heresy blown in from hell. Meaning: nothing is more practical than theology. Activity for the sake of activity, without a solid biblical foundation, will soon lose sight of its purpose.