Michael Riley I have read with interest the recent exchange in this newsletter on the validity of two-category Christianity. Dr. Hauser argues that Paul’s letter… Read More »Carnal Christians: A Pastoral Perspective
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
Sunday morning found me in Mason City, Iowa, preparing to preach to Faith Baptist Church. Before leaving our hotel I decided to check my email.… Read More »Two Goodbyes
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
So you’re a pastor. You might be interested to know that the Schleitheim Confession, an early Anabaptist creed, specified that the first duty of the… Read More »A Pastor’s Reading Plan
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
Time is limited. Earthly life ends with a period or even an exclamation point, not with an ellipsis. We are granted threescore and ten years,… Read More »Devotion
As a small child I thought that reading seemed very much like magic. My mother or father could take a book from the shelf, and… Read More »Study
In no previous civilization have ordinary people experienced greater leisure than in ours. In the past, leisure was the privilege of the aristocracy. Now, however,… Read More »Leisure
The Reformers erected the doctrine of calling in reaction to the Romanist distinction between clergy and laity. At the time, Catholics recognized only two vocations:… Read More »Vocation and Vocations
The Evangelical Theological Society was founded in 1949. Fundamentalists have been involved from the beginning. Indeed, several ETS presidents were identified with fundamentalism: Charles Woodbridge,… Read More »Understanding the Evangelical Theological Society
Controversy over Islam is increasing both within American religion and among American political candidates. On the one hand, a Wheaton College professor was recently disciplined… Read More »What About Muslims?
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
On Christmas Eve, Donald M. Brong slipped into the presence of his Lord. He had served in vocational ministry for more than fifty of his… Read More »An Elder Statesman Rests
[This essay originally appeared in In the Nick of Time on January 26, 2007.] “Do you have the power of God?” The Great Man bellowed… Read More »The Power of God