This article appeared in the Spring 2003 (Vol 13, No. 1) issue of The Baptist Preacher’s Journal Introduction Perhaps the most seldom used title in the Bible for the minister is “Preacher.” It translates the noun form of the word kerux (kerux) which means “a herald.” Though the English word “Preacher” appears four times, one […]
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Richard V. Clearwaters
This article appeared in the October 15, 2001 issue (Vol. 52, No. 3) of The Baptist Bible Tribune. “There is no tangled skein of life too difficult for His divine fingers if we are willing to cast it into His lap.”1 That was the way Dr. Clearwaters began his autobiography. From a sharecropper’s home in […]
A. T. Robertson
This article appeared in the Baptist Bible Tribune, January, 1999 A.T. Robertson was born on November 6, 1863, at Cherbury, the family home near Chatham, Pittsylvania County, Virginia, where he spent the first twelve years of his life. Though spending a few short years in North Carolina, and the rest of his life in Louisville, […]
Merging into the New Century
This article appeared in the Baptist Bible Tribune, January, 1996. We are ready to pay our last nickel of time to the twentieth century. If the first ninety-five years are indicative of the last five, we had better fasten our seatbelts and prepare for warp drive. Learning to navigate the “information super highway” is not […]
From What Should We Separate?
This article appeared in The Baptist Preacher, Mar/Apr, 1997. My Missouri grandmother used to say, “There’s not a pot so crooked but what there’s a lid to fit it.” She had a way of making all things find their proper place. The wisest man who ever lived warned, “A false balance is not good” (Proverbs […]
A Response from No-Man’s Land
This article appeared in the September/October 2001 issue (Vol. 10, No. 5) of The Baptist Preacher. The original article is found in the September 2001 issue (Vol. 8 No. 9) of Aletheia under the title “Is There An Alternative Point Of View? (To The Traditional vs Progressive Debate)”. An ancient saint once said, “It is […]
Saving Faith
This article originally appeared in the Sept/Oct 1996 issue of The Baptist Preacher under the title, “Why are there pious pretenders in the pews?” In exalting faith, we are not immediately putting ourselves in contradiction to modern thought. Indeed faith is being exalted very high today by men of the most modern type. But what […]
The Baptist Name
This originally appeared in the May/June issue of The Baptist Preacher with the title, “Why we won’t take the name ‘Baptist’ off our church.” There is no denying we live in a generation that disdains labels. To assert any belief with a personal label is to be intolerant and insensitive to those who disagree. The […]
Preaching the Word in a Pagan Age
This article appeared in The Baptist Preacher, December, 1998. William Wordsworth once said, “Language is the incarnation of thought,”1 which may tell us either why conversation is so scarce these days, or why it is such light fare. But it was Confucius who said, “When words lose their meaning, people lose their liberty.”2 That makes […]
Evangelizing the Postmodern Man
This paper has been presented to pastors’ meetings (March, June 1999). It has been published in The Baptist Preacher, September/October, 1999. The battle for the soul of postmodern man is a dilemma: how do you bring the truth of the gospel to a man who does not believe in truth? Perhaps Blaise Pascal said it […]