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Family Ministry: A New Definition for Family Ministry (Part 2)

16th May 2017

I delivered this paper proposing a revised definition for family ministry in May 2017 at the HOUSE Conference in Australia, a gathering sponsored by YouthWorks and themed around the intersection between family ministry and ecclesiology. This post is the second part of a three-part series articulating the need for a revised definition for family ministry. Part […]

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Filed Under: Blog, Family Ministry, featured, History Tagged With: children's ministry, Christian Endeavor, church history, church ministry, efficiency movement, family ministry, history, Industrial Revolution, intergenerational ministry, intergenerationality, youth ministry

Blog: Most-Read Posts of 2016 and Plans for 2017

3rd January 2017

Around twenty-seven thousand people racked up nearly one hundred thousand views of this blog in 2016. If you were one of them, thank you! Since there are no advertisements on my site, I don’t profit from any of the content. And so, if you’ve profited from what I’ve written, please consider purchasing a book (or two […]

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Filed Under: Apologetics, Blog, Family Ministry, featured, History, In the News, Lead, Learn, Movie Reviews, Serve, Solve, Video Tagged With: apologetics, church history, family ministry, history, leadership, year in review

Culture: Is Christianity Headed South?

11th November 2016

Is Christianity headed south? Year after year, Western culture continues to grow increasingly secularized. Secularization is—in the words of Baptist theologian R. Albert Mohler— the process by which a society becomes more and more distant from its Christian roots. Though the formal sociological theory is more complicated than that, the essence of secularization is the […]

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Filed Under: Apologetics, Blog, featured, History, Learn Tagged With: church history, missions

Church History: Martin Luther and the Ninety-Five Theses

27th October 2016

On October 31, 1517, a monk and professor named Martin Luther sent a document entitled Disputatio Pro Declaratione Virtutis Indulgentiarum to the archbishop of Mainz. This Disputatio consisted of ninety-five theses for theological debate. Perhaps on October 31 or more probably a week or two later, Luther hammered the theses to the door of All Saints’ Church […]

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Filed Under: Blog, featured, History, Learn, Video Tagged With: church history, Martin Luther, Reformation

Church History: The Church Council that John Calvin Rejected

24th October 2016

On October 23, 787, the last session took place of the last church council that brought together church leaders from both the eastern and western halves of what had once been the Roman Empire. Centuries later, one of the key Protestant reformers of the sixteenth century would reject what these church leaders decided. What brought church leaders […]

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Filed Under: Apologetics, Blog, featured, History, Video Tagged With: Calvinism, church history, council, Eastern Orthodoxy, history, iconoclasm, icons, Islam, John Calvin, Roman Catholicism

Church History: The Racist Heresy in Southern Baptist History

15th September 2016

The founders of the Southern Baptist Convention and of The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary were zealous defenders of biblical orthodoxy. They were also heretics.

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Filed Under: Blog, featured, History, Lead Tagged With: African American, church history, race, racism

Apologetics: Is Inerrancy a Modern Invention?

29th August 2016

“Inerrancy” is the belief that the Bible never errs. It’s another way of saying that the Old and New Testaments—as they were originally written—declare what is true and describe accurately what happened in the past. To say the Bible is inerrant is to say that the Scriptures do not affirm anything that is contrary to […]

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Filed Under: Apologetics, Blog, featured, History Tagged With: church history, inerrancy

PROOF: Who Invented the TULIP? (Part 3)

8th August 2014

Did you miss Parts 1 and 2 of “Who Invented the TULIP?”  Click here for Part 1 and here for Part 2. Where Did McAfee Find His Points in the First Place? Others have explored the origins of TULIP as far back as Cleland McAfee’s 1905 lecture. I find it highly unlikely, however, that this […]

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Filed Under: PROOF Tagged With: Calvinism, church history, PROOF, TULIP

PROOF: Who Invented the TULIP? (Part 2)

6th August 2014

Did you miss Part 1 of “Who Invented the TULIP?”  Click here to read it. Tiptoeing through (the History of) the TULIP The earliest name clearly connected to the TULIP seems to be Cleland Boyd McAfee. Born in Missouri in 1866, McAfee became a prominent leader in the Presbyterian Church. He moved to Union Theological […]

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Filed Under: PROOF Tagged With: Calvinism, church history, PROOF, TULIP

PROOF: Who Invented the TULIP? (Part 1)

4th August 2014

Chances are, if you’ve ever heard of the “five points of Calvinism,” you heard them first in the form of a flower—a tulip, to be exact. If your earliest awareness of these points was anything like mine, it began with the fallenness of humanity and ended with the security of the believer, with the most […]

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Filed Under: PROOF Tagged With: Calvinism, church history, PROOF, TULIP

Church History: Why Does Church History Even Matter?

25th July 2014

Why does it matter if Christians know the history of their faith? Well, imagine trying to sustain a marriage with total amnesia, never fully aware of all the past experiences that you and your spouse have shared. Sure, it’s possible sustain such a relationship—and many people whose husbands or wives suffer from dementia valiantly do […]

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Filed Under: Blog, Learn, Video Tagged With: 30 days, church history, history

Church History: Why the Story of Our Faith Is Bigger and Better Than Facts and Dates

30th May 2014

The following is the second half of an interview I did with Baptist Press related to my book and DVD-curriculum, Christian History Made Easy. Click here for the first half. Q: Why is the average person in the pew largely uninformed about church history? A: I think there are at least a couple of reasons: 1) Particularly among […]

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Filed Under: Blog, Learn, Solve Tagged With: church history, history

Church History: Why Should Anyone Care About Church History?

20th May 2014

The following is part of an interview I did with Baptist Press related to my book and DVD-curriculum, Christian History Made Easy. Professor Timothy Paul Jones acknowledges that plenty of people view the study of history as boring–full of drab facts and dates they’d rather forget. But Jones says it shouldn’t be that way, and he’s […]

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Filed Under: Blog, Learn, Serve Tagged With: Baptist Press, church history, history

Church History: How Christianity Happened

23rd April 2014

Easter is certainly a time for celebration, but it is also a time for solemn reflection. We fast and reflect during the season of Lent, then we celebrate the joy of the resurrection on Easter sunday. But what about after Easter? What then? The church has traditionally recognized the season following Easter as a time […]

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Filed Under: Blog, Learn, Solve Tagged With: church history, Early Christianity, Easter, Eastertide, history

Church History: The Legacy of William Wilberforce

25th March 2014

March 25th marks the anniversary of the abolition of the slave trade in Great Britain. In 1807 the British Parliament passed the Slave Trade Act, eradicating the inhumane export of African slaves throughout the Empire. About 25 years following that, slavery would be completely outlawed within the British Empire. The major contributor to this movement […]

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Filed Under: Blog, Learn, Solve Tagged With: church history, history, slavery, William Wilberforce

Church History: An Interview with Tom Nettles on the Prince of Preachers

31st January 2014

On January 31, 1892, Charles Haddon Spurgeon passed from this life. More than a century later, he remains one of the most widely-read preachers ever. In Living By Revealed Truth, Dr. Tom Nettles distills more than a decade of his own study into the text that now stands as the premier biography of Spurgeon. Here […]

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Filed Under: Blog, Learn, Solve Tagged With: Charles Spurgeon, church history, history, Tom Nettles

Family Ministry: Family Discipleship in the Middle Ages and Reformation

20th January 2014

With the dawning of imperial favor in the early fourth century and the crumbling of the Roman Empire in the fifth, the primary locus of Christian practice drifted from homes to dedicated institutional structures. Especially in the early Middle Ages, there appears to have been a loss of the ancient model for discipleship in families. […]

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Filed Under: Blog, Learn, Solve Tagged With: christian family, church history, discipleship, family, family ministry, history

Family Ministry: An Ancient Christian Perspective on Family Ministry

13th January 2014

  This model for family ministry not only began before Paul’s generation but also persisted far beyond the lifetimes of the first followers of Jesus. Didache and Letter of Barnabas provide summaries of Christian practices that date to the first and second centuries A.D. Both of these writings include an identical command for parents—a command […]

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Filed Under: Blog, Learn, Solve Tagged With: christian family, church history, family, family ministry

Church History: How Did the Many Marriages of Henry VIII Change the History of Christianity?

27th November 2013

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Filed Under: Blog, Learn, Solve, Video Tagged With: church history, Church of England, history

Church History: A Quick Introduction to the Icon Controversy

20th November 2013

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Filed Under: Blog, Learn, Solve, Video Tagged With: church history, history, icons

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