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Feature Article

God and gravitas

by Keith Bassham Rob Bell, pastor of Mars Hill Bible Church in Grand Rapids, MI, has released a book titled Love Wins. This is not a review of that book. However, there are many reviews […]

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Feature Article

What we’ve heard about the Cebu meeting

by Jon Konnerup After 60 years of global evangelization, nearly 7,000 churches have been started outside the United States as a result of the efforts of the BBFI. Many countries are now sending their own […]

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Baptist History

Edward & Anna Scott

Examples of commitment by Thomas Ray Edward Scott and Anna Kay had never met, but they had something in common — both had broken their mar­riage engagements when their prospective mates because they refused to […]

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Urban Current

One man, one vision — one city, one world

by Charles Lyons Who can foretell the ultimate poten­tial of one person with an idea? He was born a child of the city in 1735. This son of privilege inherited his father’s successful printing concern, […]

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On the Table

I’m all in

by Keith Bassham I mentioned to my wife this morning that 35 years ago today she and I were preparing to leave Springfield for our first post-college ministry in Texas. I cannot remember if I […]

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AfterWords

Bringing the future into the present

By Keith Bassham Over the years, I’ve learned that if you can master a few basics in just about any area of activity, you can do most anything that activity requires. Take football — you […]

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Baptist History

Thomas Spurgeon

The forgotten Spurgeon by Thomas Ray Charles Haddon Spurgeon was the most influential preacher of the 19th century. His achievements are truly remarkable. In 1854, at the age of 19, he was invited to become […]

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Urban Current

THE CITY, A Global History

by Charles Lyons Read any books lately that made you go “Wow!”? Joel Kotkin’s The City, A Global History had just that effect on me. How does an author jam so much into such few […]

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On the Table

Shaking the nations: Part II

by Keith Bassham Last month in this column I spoke of the Shaking of the Nations, and I wondered what “shaking” might take place before I wrote again. I did not know the shaking would […]

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Feature Article

The Noblest Monument of English Prose

The King James Version turns 400 this year by Harold Rawlings Chapter seven of his book, Trial by Fire When news reached James VI of Scot­land in 1603 that his cousin, Queen Elizabeth, had died, […]