FIRST-PERSON: It’s a team harvest
When someone turns to faith in Christ, Ben Simpson notes that it often is the result of the witness, influence and nurture of many people in a person's life.
FIRST-PERSON: Yes indeed, God loves gays
Pastor and writer Ben Simpson responds to a teen's question, "Why doesn't God love gays?" "Love doesn't just affirm whatever makes a person happy," Simpson writes. "It seeks the well-being of its objects."
SOUL-WINNING Keep Your Urgency for the Gospel Stoked
During the first decade of my childhood, my family had a big wood-burning stove in our house to keep us warm in the winter. There was one thing that we always had to keep in mind: keep the fire stoked so that it will stay hot. I remember distinctly watching my dad, or doing it […]
FIRST-PERSON: Pastor, abandon not the flock
Columnist and pastor Ben Simpson lists five things a pastor should consider before leaving his church.
FIRST-PERSON: Pastor, abandon not the flock
Columnist and pastor Ben Simpson lists five things a pastor should consider before leaving his church.
SBC DISCUSSION: ‘To the fountain,’ weighing Scripture & Baptist tradition
ALEXANDRIA, Tenn. (BP)–Around the dawn of the fifth century A.D., a scholar of the church by the name of Jerome did something that was rather controversial in his day: He produced the official Latin translation of the Bible, which become known as the Vulgate. That in itself wasn’t controversial. The controversy lay in the fact […]
