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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 […]