Have you heard the ballad of the hoped-for hero? Ancient prophecies foretell his coming. Not altogether clear, shrouded in mystery, but enough to kindle hopes and keep the flickering flame alive. Everything depends on his coming. In fact, if... [ ... ][ abbreviated | read original blog ]
EDITOR’S NOTE: In what follows, Michael A.G. Haykin, professor of church history and biblical spirituality at Southern Seminary, discusses his new book — co-written with freelance writer and alumnus C. Jeffrey Robinson Sr. — To the Ends of... [ ... ][ abbreviated | read original blog ]
A few weeks ago, I had the opportunity to spend five days with some of Southern Seminary’s sharpest students discussing the biblical foundations of Christian missions. We walked through the Scriptures together and identified how God’s Word... [ ... ][ abbreviated | read original blog ]
When our grandparents were raising our parents, popular culture was not as dramatically at odds with the biblical understandings of gender as it is now. The current cultural confusion over gender, however, requires parents to be highly... [ ... ][ abbreviated | read original blog ]
Several years ago my wife and I went to the emergency room several times – and all with one child, our oldest son, Benjamin. One time he fell out of a tree. One time he climbed up the bricks that were coming out of the house next to us, all... [ ... ][ abbreviated | read original blog ]
Read part one of this post here. When you adventure through a process like the one my wife and I did – all adoptions are adventures and each presents its own set of unique circumstances and challenges – you learn a lot about yourself and... [ ... ][ abbreviated | read original blog ]
Make your plans in pencil. This is good advice for your career, for your marriage and, yes, for your adoption. When my wife, Jane, and I adopted our second son, our inked-in plans blew up in our faces. There we were, expanding our family,... [ ... ][ abbreviated | read original blog ]
Initiating change within a local church represents one of the most difficult tasks, if not the most difficult task, pastors face. Whether one desires to instill an evangelism DNA into a plateaued congregation or initiate new ministries or... [ ... ][ abbreviated | read original blog ]
Southern Seminary missions professors M. David Sills and Jeff Walters discuss their new book, Introduction to Global Missions, with Southern Seminary Magazine contributor Aaron Cline Hanbury. ACH: What makes Introduction to Global... [ ... ][ abbreviated | read original blog ]
Along similar lines today, countless churches desperately need revitalizing. And, in God’s goodness, the same prescription he gives for that ancient church is the same for today’s churches. Indeed, the early church at Ephesus is a case study... [ ... ][ abbreviated | read original blog ]
