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Gregory helps BWA promote better preaching
WACO, Texas (ABP) – Joel Gregory compares commenting on sermons to raising political questions at a holiday meal among extended family. Still, the professor of preaching at George W. Truett Theological Seminary shouldered the risky task of critiquing 24 sermons…
Appeals court rules against Forsyth County prayer policy
GREENSBORO, N.C. (ABP) – A North Carolina county commission is expected to appeal a decision by the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals that said its policy on opening meetings with prayer violates the Constitution. A three-judge panel voted 2-1…
‘Foster care saved my life,’ says resident
SALEM, Va. — Imagine that you are 10 years old when you finally find the courage to tell your teacher about some problems you have been having at home. Then your world falls completely apart. Samantha, who spent several years…
Pastor retires from church that was model for ‘The Waltons’
SCHUYLER, Va. (ABP) — Matthew Fordwick was the young pastor of the Baptist church in the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia on The Waltons, a popular television show created by Earl Hamner Jr. Schuyler Baptist Church Fordwick came to Walton’s…
KINGDOM VISION: Hope and anguish
There’s a story in the Bible, and if I were to present that story in a slide format, I would probably use two different slides. One slide would be of Jesus going with Peter, James and John up to the…
WINN RECOMMENDS
Welcoming Justice: God’s Movement Toward Beloved Community, Charles Marsh and John Perkins (IVP) Through his prolific pen, Marsh, professor and director of the Project on Lived Theology at the University of Virginia, has sketched historical accounts, a memoir and a…
OPINION: Lottie Moon: The person and the legend
“It is a small thing to be judged of a man’s judgment. It is good to know that we are judged by God.” As I began my graduate studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, I stumbled…
VITAL SIGNS: Is your church making you healthy or sick?
Our 10-month-old grandson recently went through a medical emergency. His immune system was compromised and his body was under assault from an infection. He needed immediate treatment and the diagnosis called for him to receive intravenous immunoglobulin. This is a…
OUT LOUD
“What serious, let alone decent religiously conscious person — left or right, conservative or liberal — would knowingly work to enrich this dreadful man who will go down in history as the epitome of everything that all religion says it’s…
EDITORIAL: Where the Spirit moves
Like an elephant in the room, China cannot be ignored. Apart from its growing economic prowess and global influence, of particular interest to Christians worldwide is the Chinese Church. In the last issue of the Herald, I reported on a…
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