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Seminaries provide help for pastors performing the business of ministry
(ABP) — Pastor Tony Lankford had a relaxing-but-productive day planned for himself on Monday. His plan was to prepare the message he would preach the following Sunday on Daniel in the lion’s den. “I was going to go to the…
WINN RECOMMENDS
How God Became King, N.T. Wright (Harper Collins) Believing that for all our study of the Gospels, we’ve obscured or forgotten what they are actually about, Wright sets out to re-narrate the story. Wright believes the Gospels fundamentally tell the…
HERITAGE: The cheerleader from ‘Tussie’
She was a cheerleader. She wrote her school’s fight song. And now she is cheering and promoting Woman’s Missionary Union of Virginia. Pat Wright, the newly-elected president of WMUV, has long been a cheerleader and an active player in the…
LEADERSHIP LINK: Pastor compensation: A view from both sides of the pulpit
I am often asked the question, “What should pastors be paid? Isn’t it their obligation to forswear the material world and share the word of God?” Pastors do what they do because they love it. These servants of God are…
EDITORIAL: What’s happening with the Herald?
If cordiality is the standard by which Baptist General Association of Virginia annual meetings are measured, the meeting just ended was one of the best. Newly-elected BGAV president Carl Johnson thanked the messengers at the close of the final session…
OPINION: Bible interpretation, personal experience and homosexuality
A man I once knew, now deceased, liked to express his opinion on various topics, such as divorce. He was proud that he still maintained that divorce is wrong, even though his own son was divorced. He gave examples of…
OPINION: The call of the question
The simple phrase “I move to call the question” was all it took to stop the discussion and have Ginter Park Baptist Church disassociated from the Baptist General Association of Virginia. Based on what I observed at the annual meeting,…
OPINION: The majority has spoken
After attending/voting at the Baptist General Association of Virginia 2012 annual meeting in Roanoke on the recent issue regarding Ginter Park Baptist Church with their ordination of an openly homosexual man, I feel that many will weigh in with a…