Church Planting
You don’t have to be large to plant
by John Gross Just as we think we have to be fully grown before we can produce fruit, sometimes we think we have to be a large church before we can plant another church. Let […]
Year: 2016
Baptist Bible College Update
Is college the next step?
by Mark Milioni The season of pomp and circumstance is upon us. Soon high school seniors will be wearing caps and gowns, clutching diplomas, and wondering about their next steps. I often talk to these […]
Boston Baptist College Update
One night at the wall
by David Melton I ’m still trying to reclaim a North American sleep pattern after our return from the Boston Study Trip 2016. Eleven days in Israel with 40 students and another forty friends of […]
Feature Article
It’s a personal thing
by David Melton The New Testament is amply clear that the theological ramifications of the bodily resurrection of Jesus are immeasurably beyond words. We are saved when we believe in our hearts the Lord has […]
Feature Article
Easter? Passover? Resurrection Day?
by James R. Adams As a Christian with a Jewish upbringing, I’ve often been puzzled as to why Easter is not more prominent and central to the believer and the church as a whole? Why […]
Feature Article
Maximizing Easter
TO SEE PEOPLE FIND AND FOLLOW JESUS by Brian Moore Don’t get me wrong, every service is important and every weekend should be treated like the “big game” for Jesus, but at Easter, crowds are […]
Feature Article
Costa Rica — the rich coast
by Jon Konnerup In October 2015, I had the privilege of visiting the rugged, rain-forested Central American country of Costa Rica. With its Caribbean and Pacific coastlines, Costa Rica — meaning “the rich coast” — […]
The Right Angle
Q. What hope does the Resurrection give for personal life change?
A. Do you ever have the attitude of the trolls in Disney’s Frozen, when they sing, “We’re not saying you can change him, ‘cuz people don’t really change.” Sadly, that is true for someone who does […]
Urban Current
God is a people mover
by Charles Lyons Her complexion suggested strong chai. Slight of build, she still easily pushed the wheelchair containing my elderly mother through Chicago’s O’Hare Airport. She had arrived less than a year ago from Myanmar […]
Baptist History
A. J. Gordon — Zealous for missions
by Doug Kutilek Adoniram Judson Gordon (1836-1895) was born in New Hampshire into a devout Christian home and was, of course, named for famous New England native and pioneer missionary, Adoniram Judson. Gordon was converted […]