Those who know me or who have been reading this column for a while know that I am on a bit of a quest to climb as many of Colorado’s 14,000-foot mountains as possible. My oldest son, Caleb, and I have summited 37 “fourteeners” together, some with other family members. My wife, Beth, would be […]
BF&M Articles IV and V: God’s plan from the beginning
It’s telling that the original 1925 Baptist Faith and Message addressed the important topic of salvation with not just one or two articles, but with six. These were titled: The Way of Salvation, Justification, The Freeness of Salvation, Regeneration, Repentance and Faith, and Sanctification. Two additional articles were titled God’s Purpose of Grace (or election), […]
Adams: Future-ready churches
It wasn’t surprising to me that this year’s Illinois Leadership Summit was well-attended and well-received by about 200 pastors and leaders from IBSA churches. That has been the growing trend for several years now, thanks to guest speakers like Mac Lake, Mark Clifton, and Dave Rhodes, as well as practical breakouts from pacesetting church leaders […]
The Home Stretch
When I played basketball in college, our coach expected everyone on the team to come to the start of the season with a certain level of personal conditioning. For example, before anyone could attend his first practice in the fall, he had to demonstrate that he could run a mile in five and half minutes, […]
Mom’s ministry
I’ve now written a column in The Illinois Baptist for 19 years. But my father Tom Adams wrote a continuous column in this same paper for the previous 34. Dad went to be with the Lord one month after I started my service with IBSA. But I have always felt that I stand on the […]
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