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Jeff Straub Last week, I began a discussion on the trend to combine college and seminary education into a shortened five- or six-year program. By… Read More »A Plea for a Three-Year Master of Divinity, Part Two
Jeff Straub It has become a bit trendy in recent days to pare down the M.Div. degree to something much less than the traditional 96… Read More »A Plea for a Three-Year Master of Divinity, Part One
Jeff Straub Last week, I had the opportunity to attend the annual meeting of the Fundamental Baptist Fellowship International, held in the beautiful facilities of… Read More »Reflections on the 96th Annual Meeting of the Fundamental Baptist Fellowship International
Jeff Straub In last week’s Nick, Kevin mentioned some of the books that he had read during the past twelve months. I thought I might… Read More »Summer Reading: Time for a Change of Pace
Jeff Straub Ecclesiastes 3:4 reminds us that there is a “time to weep.” If ever there was a time for weeping in our independent Baptist… Read More »Weep With Those Who Weep
Jon Pratt Believers struggle with sin. But disagreement arises over how this ongoing conflict ought to be engaged. Some have suggested that classifying Christians into… Read More »Carnal Christians? Part Two
Jon Pratt One of my former professors, Charles Hauser, has recently written in support of the “carnal Christian” view as a way of describing the… Read More »Carnal Christians? Part One
Jeff Straub I love encountering new cultures. The sounds, the smells, the tastes—pungent, bitter, sweet, loud, soft, ebullient, quiet. What a world we live in!… Read More »Learning From the National Church: What Our Brothers and Sisters Can Teach Us
Jeff Straub Throughout my 12-year tenure here at Central Seminary, I have been using part of my time to teach overseas. When I was hired,… Read More »Missions in the 21st Century: Is It a Time to Rethink Our Strategy?
Jeff Straub The modern missionary movement is now about 225 years old, if you mark its beginning with the journey of William Carey to India… Read More »The Fields Are Still White—Laborers Are Still Needed
Jeff Straub Recently, I returned from the Far East after another blessed ministry trip. As I journeyed home, I began to muse on the incredible… Read More »If I Were Young Again: World Opportunities for the Intentional Christian
Charles A. Hauser The previous essay attempted to show that 1 Corinthians 1:14-3:3 establishes three categories of people: natural, spiritual, and carnal. The latter two… Read More »The Believer and Carnality, Part Two
Charles A. Hauser All Bible-believing interpreters of scripture agree that doctrine must be determined by the teaching of the Word of God, not by creeds… Read More »The Believer and Carnality, Part One
Friday, January 8, was the sixtieth anniversary of what is likely the best known missionary sacrifice of the twentieth century. Jim Elliott and his four… Read More »Missionary Sacrifice, Sixty Years Later
Jeff Straub The third week of November is always reserved for the gathering of the Evangelical Theological Society, now in its 67th year. As we… Read More »Reflections on the Annual Meeting of the Evangelical Theological Society
Jeff Straub Washington, D. C.; New York, New York; London, England; Mumbai, India; Nairobi, Kenya; Moscow, Russia; and now Paris, France. What do all of… Read More »Living in Uncertain Days
Jeff Straub Last week, I began to evalutate Steve Shadrach’s book on raising ministry support, The God Ask. It is a how-to manual for Christian… Read More »The God Ask: A Fresh, Biblical Approach to Personal Support Raising: A Review Article, Part 2
This week and next, I want to interact with a recent book that has some bearing on the discussion we have been having over the… Read More »The God Ask: A Fresh, Biblical Approach to Personal Support Raising: A Review Article, Part 1
Jeff Straub All churches should be growing in their commitment to fulfill the Great Commission, and having a missions-minded church is one way to increase… Read More »How to Have a Missions-Minded Church, Part 4: Raising the Missions Consciousness of the Church
The work of ministry on any significant scale requires resources. This is especially true of the work of missions. Nearly every country that admits missionaries… Read More »How to Have a Missions-Minded Church, Part 3: More on Finances