I’m at the season where I am contemplating lessons learned from past ministry. I find myself using “If I was to do it all over again” statements in training and coaching seeking to warn others to learn from missteps that I identify in my journey. Don’t get me wrong! I’d love to go back and […]
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What does it mean to be political?
(Editor’s note: Andrew Walker published a new treatise on current issues for the SBC’s Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission. Walker is associate dean of school of theology for Southern Baptist Theological Seminary. He grew up in Jacksonville, Illinois.) When things seem dark, we must remember that God is in control. That may sound like one […]
Barber to visit
Last June 13, the day Dr. Bart Barber was elected President of the Southern Baptist Convention for a second annual term, I invited him to come to Illinois. Throughout his first term I had respected his candor and transparency in speaking to the many complex issues and challenges facing the national SBC today, and I […]
You gotta have friends
“Friendship seems as necessary an element of a comfortable existence in this world as fire or water, or even air itself,” Charles Spurgeon wrote. “A man may drag along a miserable existence in proud solitary dignity, but his life is scarce life, it is nothing but an existence, the tree of life being stripped of […]
Impossible alone
“Impossible things are only impossible alone.” Though I was shaving and only halfway paying attention to the radio advertisements that were droning on in the background, that line caught my attention. I stopped and listened carefully to learn the company’s name, then I searched online and discovered an Australian company that was promoting its collaborative […]
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