J. Matthew Pinson On Teaching Children to be Christians A Look at Matt Markins, The Faith of Our Children: Eight Timely Research Insights for Discipling the Next Generation (D6 Family Ministry, 2023) Very few are the children’s ministry books that place emphasis on deep biblical and theological teaching. AWANA president Matt Markins’s new book is just that sort of book. …
Keep ReadingCory Thompson (Editor’s note: Over the next few weeks several Commission members will be sharing some of their favorite books they read in 2023. As we always say, inclusion of a title in no way signals a blanket endorsement by the individual Commissioner, or the Commission as a whole. However, these are books we benefited from and which we feel …
Keep ReadingKevin L. Hester The 75th annual meeting of the Evangelical Theological Society met in San Antonio, Texas from November 14-16, 2023. Almost 3,000 full and student members attended the conference. Among this number were several Free Will Baptists who made significant contributions to the meetings. There were both faculty and student participants from Welch College and Welch Divinity School. President …
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Eddie Moody, Moody outlined a proposal by Jay Moon for how churches can maintain financial viability and serve their communities in creative ways.
Keep ReadingW. Jackson Watts (This post originally appeared as part of Newsletter #62 at Churchatopia, a blog/website operated by Commission member Jackson Watts. It has been lightly edited and reposted here.) Do you ever find yourself talking about the “already-not yet” when it comes to eschatology or most anything else biblical? Somewhere along the way, directly or indirectly, you probably derived …
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