Missions

^{Note: This article is the first of a three-part exchange between Jeff Straub and Kevin Bauder.}

by Jeff Straub

I have to admit, I like ice cream—chocolate, moose tracks, peaches and cream—you name it, and I like it. Baskin-Robbins, Cold Stone Creamery, Ben & Jerry’s. You get the picture.

I really like chocolate. The more chocolate, the better. One store in Canada had a Chocolate Decadent. It was good!

Josh Larsen and Jason Gardner, two pastor’s kids from Colorado, recently spent a day in downtown Denver trying to be “witnessing maniacs.”

Josh Larsen (left) is the youth pastor at Red Rocks Baptist Church (Lakewood, CO). He and his wife, Katie, moved there from Minneapolis in 2005. They have two children. Jason Gardner (right) lives in Denver and attends Red Rocks as well. He and his wife, Autumn, are expecting their first child. They have plans to be involved in Bible translation work overseas.

^{Note: This article was originally posted November 18, 2005.}
A hundred years ago, a couple of men in their twenties and a teenage girl, reared on land now called Idaho, became the chief instruments for one of America’s greatest adventures, discovering a Northwest Passage for the President of the United States.

A Review of the Northwest Baptist Missions Conference

If you have never been to a Northwest Baptist Missions (NBM) Annual Fellowship Meeting, you’ve missed out on one of the most unique, close-knit bands of preachers and their families anywhere in the country. No humbugs. No spiritual charlatanism. It is fellowship with a big capital F. Or should I say “family,” only in all bold letters?

^{Note: Dr. Sam Horn is host of The Word for Life radio program.}

by Dr. Sam Horn

Should We Build?

This is the question that the King James translators in their interpretation of the Hebrew text placed in the mouth of David in 1 Samuel 17:29. David is basically a kid, “a youth” (1 Sam. 17:33).

But when David saw Goliath, the Philistine giant who had sent full-grown Israelite men scurrying, the lad simply asked, “Who is this uncircumcised Philistine, that he should defy the armies of the living God?” (v. 26).