I have written much lately about the church being the church in today’s world. It has been my contention that the local church of Jesus Christ needs to be about doing the Father’s business and not the world’s or the government’s or the devil’s business. The local church of Jesus Christ is God’s instrument on […]
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Author: Rick Shrader
Politics, Social Issues, and the Church
How much should the churches and their pastors be involved in politics and social issues? The points of view on this have changed dramatically in my own life-time due first of all to the rise of the Moral Majority in the early 1980s and now again with the obvious secularization of American culture, including government, […]
Separation: A Christian Perspective (Pa...
In the second part of this article I want to apply the Biblical doctrine of separation to seven areas of our Christian lives. We continue to focus on how we can be in the world without becoming part of the world. John Newton, the English pastor and song writer, wrote the following answer in a […]
Separation: A Christian Perspective (Pa...
The Bible teaches a doctrine of separation. Biblical separation is not a mere occurrence as politeness or rudeness. Separation is something that is commanded by God in the Scripture and something that was lived out by prophets, patriarchs, and apostles, as well as the Son of God Himself. To be “holy” as God is holy, […]
New Testament Heralds
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 […]
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 […]