I pastor a smaller, traditional Baptist church. We have a single pastor/elder, 2 (soon to be 3) deacons, and a board of trustees. This makes pastoral leadership a little bit of a lonely place. My long-term goal is for our church to have lay elders. But what do elders do? What’s our “job” (even if […]
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I pastor a church in rural Indiana. If you drive out of our church parking lot and go six miles west, you will come across an apostolic church that advertises themselves as the place to “experience Pentecost every Sunday.” If you drive ten miles east, you will pass a church that advertises much the same
The NIDNTTE (Zondervan, 2014) is a thorough revision of the original NIDNTT. Moises Silva is the revision editor, and the finished product is a must have for serious students and pastors who work in Greek on a regular basis. The updated set consists of five volumes (four dictionary volumes and an index volume. There is
Dr. Donald Sunukjian has had more influence in the area of expository preaching on the current generation of pastors than anyone except Haddon Robinson. I remember one of my seminary professors having us watch a video of Dr. Sunukjian doing a first person narrative sermon on Esther. It was my first introduction to that type
For decades there has been a battle in the theological world over how the text of Genesis 1-11 relates to claims made by many within the scientific community. Did God create the world and everything in it is six literal twenty-four hour days? Was the flood global or local? How old is the earth? Why
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