Missionary Martyrs: Are We Paying Too High a Price to Evangelize the World? Part Three By Jim Dec 14 2018 Christians should think long and hard about the possible blowback from violating a nation’s sovereignty by preaching the gospel. North Korea is a case in point. In recent months, several Christians were released after being arrested for violating the Hermit Kingdom’s restrictive laws.Tags: MartyrsJohn Allen ChauCharles WescoJeff Straub 586 reads
Missionary Martyrs: Are We Paying Too High a Price to Evangelize the World? Part Two By Jim Dec 07 2018 Missionary Martyrs: Are We Paying Too High a Price to Evangelize the World? Part Two Tags: Jeff StraubJohn Allen ChauCharles Wesco 653 reads
Review: The Making of Battle Royal: The Rise of Liberalism in Northern Baptist Life, 1870–1920 By Jim Dec 04 2018 "Battle Royal shows, in sum, that the pyrotechnics set off by Harry Emerson Fosdick in the 1920s were prepared decades before. They took shape in the place where ministry—sound or unsound—is often incubated: the seminary. Though this sturdy text is academic in tone and format, I was gripped in my own analysis of the text by how urgently missiological Straub’s academic scholarship is.Tags: Jeff StraubBooksChurch History 1225 reads
The Fundamental Baptist Fellowship is No More! By Jim Feb 18 2017 Word comes to us that the Fundamental Baptist Fellowship International is no more. At their recent board meeting, we understand that the Fundamental Baptist Fellowship leadership voted to change their name to Foundations Baptist Fellowship, retaining the FBF shorthand version but changing its name because the term “fundamental” is no longer useful.Tags: Fundamental Baptist FellowshipJeff Straub 16297 reads
Seducing Society - The High Cost of Gambling By TylerR Jan 14 2016 Jeff Straub: When one looks at the broad issue of gambling, despite any apparent benefit, the culture which is engendered by the gambling industry can hardly be said to glorify God. How then can any believer who wishes to glorify God participate? Tags: Jeff StraubFrontlineGambling 2279 reads
How to Have a Missions-Minded Church: More on Finances By TylerR Apr 03 2015 Dr. Jeff Straub: "I would like to suggest some practical ways to increase the church's missionary support commitments. How do we teach our church to give to missions? How much should we be giving as a church?" Tags: Jeff StraubMissions 2467 reads
How to Have a Missions-Minded Church: Financial Support By TylerR Mar 30 2015 Dr. Jeff Straub: One real gauge of a church's missions-mindedness is its missionary support structure; how many missionaries a church supports, how much it gives them and how often, and whom it supports all say something of its commitment to missions Tags: Jeff StraubMissions 2678 reads