Grace & Truth: Maintaining Scriptural Fidelity When Ministering to the LGBTQ+ Community Early in his book “Strange New World” Carl Trueman writes these words, The sentence “I am a woman trapped in a man’s body” would have been nonsense to my grandfather. Had it been uttered by a patient to a doctor in the mid-twentieth […]
Is Your Church Producing Pastors? Feature by Erik Reynolds A few weeks ago, I spent some time with the Southern Baptist Convention Annual Meeting playing in the background as I worked because, at one time, I was part of the SBC, and it is the largest/most influential Protestant group in North America. As one of […]
How Relationships Thrive People ruin perfectly good relationships every day. How can you avoid ruining a relationship or friendship and instead build better relationships? I could give you a whole list of things; however, I prefer to focus on a core reason relationships thrive rather than die. It’s a wise word from the Bible book […]
John 3:16 People in a John 4:16 World Editorial by Justin Nash The LGBTQ+ revolution will fail. In fact, will collapse under its own weight. We can only oppose the created order and God’s moral law for so long before we reap the consequences. Push nature far enough, and it will push back. The Lord […]
The Grand Call of Grandparenting American author Alex Haley wrote, “Nobody can do for little children what grandparents do. Grandparents sort of sprinkle stardust over the lives of little children.” I don’t know about “stardust,” but Haley’s comment highlights the grand calling of grandparenting. God also has a grand view of grandparenting. According to Proverbs […]
Finding Refuge How God Called Me to Plant a Church in my Hometown “This act of the Father in giving up his Son arises from his eternal purpose to glorify his grace in his elect by giving Christ and all the blessings of his mediatory work to them (Eph. 1:3-14).”1 As John Owen points out, […]
It’s Time to Act Like Advent Christians Editorial by Justin Nash For the first time in our history as a denomination, our average Sunday morning attendance has dropped below 10,000 people in North America (See “At A Glance” p.3). This is a sobering milestone worthy of our focused attention and thoughtful consideration. We are not […]
WHFMS Honoring the Past, Celebrating the Present, Praying for the Future Beginning The WHFMS began in 1897 when Sarah K Taylor of Maine was asked to talk about the women’s work of the Advent Christian denomination. She had nothing to share but promised that within a year she would have a very different report. By […]
We Are Like Those Who Dream Abolitionism and Advent Christian Missions “These are the times that try men’s souls.” Those memorable words captured the inner struggles of many Americans as they viewed the grave dangers facing them at the start of the Revolutionary War. A similar inner struggle was repeated a few decades later as […]
When Your Spouse Doesn’t Share Your Faith Being married to a spouse that does not share your faith can be one of the most difficult challenges in a Christian’s life. You may be tempted to look for a way out of the marriage because of having to attend church alone or having a spouse who […]