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Print is dead…really?
by Keith Bassham One of my favorite cartoons is a picture of a crowd standing around a newsstand, each person holding a newspaper with the headline, “EXTRA — Print Is Dead!” Despite what you may […]
Feature Article
Swaddling Clothes
by Noel Smith Excerpted from his editorial, December 22, 1950 Nothing that men ever imagined, nothing that men ever thought, nothing that men ever said, nothing that men ever did, nothing that men ever recorded […]
Feature Article
Apologetics for Christmas
Tenth article in the series “With Good Reason” by Keith Bassham The Christmas story is a fitting conclusion to the apologetics series, for in that story I see at least four apologetic strains of thought, […]
AfterWords
The imperfect gift
by Eddie Lyons Pastor, High Street Baptist Church, Springfield, MO It was going to be a big day for us. Our youngest child, James, had been selected to throw out the first pitch to famed […]
Feature Article
Granite State church rolls with the punches
by Gregg DiCecca with Keith Bassham The church used to be known in the area as Granite State Baptist Church, the “Granite State” part identifying with New Hampshire. But later when the church needed to […]
Feature Article
Minister’s Instruction Manual available
by Keith Bassham The Minister’s Instruction Manual By Mel Brown Published by Guidance House Publishing 308 pages – $29.95 I was so happy to receive W. A. Criswell’s Guidebook for Pastors not many years after […]
Baptist History
Lewis Lunsford
The Wonderful boy by Thomas Ray Lewis Lunsford was one of the most distinguished and successful Baptist ministers of the 18th century. He was born about 1753 in Stafford County, Virginia. His youth was marked […]
Urban Current
Christmas changes everything
by Charles Lyons Bob, lanky, with a kind of “aw shucks” demeanor, coked his way through Columbia University in New York City. His father had died. He had to pay his mother’s mortgage while working […]
On the Table
Is it time to celebrate Advent?
by Keith Bassham I think I’ve mentioned this before, but working a month ahead on a magazine gives me a headache around the holidays. The November election was just a few days ago, and we’ve […]