I am about as fashion impaired as a person could be. Everybody has those pictures of when they were kids wearing ridiculous outfits, bad color combinations, and cringe-worthy haircuts. You didn’t worry about what matched, you just threw on what was clean and closest to you and off you went. But for me those pictures…
I have been a part of the Southern Baptist Convention for all of my life. But I don’t think I’ve ever known what it means to be Southern Baptist until this past week as I attended my first Southern Baptist Convention annual meeting. Seeing its representatives, all 10,000 of them, together in one place afforded…
Identity: Jesus is the Christ — a human, and God; our King. Mission: Jesus came to die to take our punishment and remove our guilt so that we can be a part of his eternal kingdom, now and beyond death, enjoying life with him forever. Call: Jesus calls us to follow him as our King.…
Must Every Christian Evangelize? Article 08.27.2013 Church members sometimes wonder if they should just leave evangelism to the “professionals.” After all, isn’t evangelism a spiritual gift? In this article I offer quick guide for pastors to know how to answer them. ANSWERING TWO COMMON ARGUMENTS Must every Christian evangelize? The scriptural answer is “yes.” But I…
Jonathon Woodyard writes, In The New Shape of World Christianity, Mark Noll, professor of history at Notre Dame, paints a fascinating picture of global Christianity. Noll’s project aims to describe how the American experience helps make sense of the various expressions of global Christianity found around the world, while also presenting the reader with a…
A word from Shea Ferguson: We’re excited to be hosting our first mission team from First Baptist Woodstock starting this Friday, April 1st-April 8th. This is a team of 19 made up mostly of middle school students. We’ve got a full week of activities helping us engage people and serve areas of our community. Please…
Pastor Brian McCoy (our Discipleship and Missions Pastor), his son Josh McCoy and I are leave the US tomorrow morning and we’ll travel to two countries that are currently closed to missionary work. The workers in these countries have platforms which allow them to reside in the country for the purpose of sharing the good news…
Pastor Brian McCoy (our Discipleship and Missions Pastor), his son Josh McCoy and I are leave the US tomorrow morning and we’ll travel to two countries that are currently closed to missionary work. The workers in these countries have platforms which allow them to reside in the country for the purpose of sharing the good news…
This was shared with me this morning — I wanted to pass it on. Thanks for reading. Heartbroken. Discouraged. Forgotten. That’s how I feel today. I’m sitting at my computer inside because the annual haze in my city is getting worse and it’s not particularly good for my five children to be out breathing it…
Theology Along the Way 