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First person: Is it time to leave your ministry assignment?

April 30, 2026

How do you know when it is time to leave one ministry assignment for another?

Opinion: What’s to come of the Baylor-BGCT relationship?

April 23, 2026

While my guess is as good as anyone else’s, the relationship is likely to continue largely unchanged, but not without some tension along the way. Governance and sexuality are recurring sources of the tension.

First person: Singleness and the Bible

April 22, 2026

It had never occurred to many of them that marriage was a temporary arrangement and singleness before God is the eternal reality for resurrection people.

First person: Today’s church and the quiet crisis

April 10, 2026

The greatest danger facing today’s church is not persecution, political pressure or cultural hostility. It is something far more subtle — and far more familiar.

First person: Media isn’t a side ministry anymore — it is the ministry

April 7, 2026

Here’s the reality: Christian media isn’t fading — it’s becoming essential.

First person: Live the resurrection every day

April 4, 2026

We will be celebrating Easter this coming Sunday. Today, I want offer suggestions for living in resurrection power each day, however.

First person: Creating pipelines for sending Ohio African American pastors to mission fields

April 2, 2026

Of the approximately 3,600 IMB missionaries on the mission field worldwide, only 30 are African American.

First Person: Ministering to prodigal Christians

March 30, 2026

While doing some spring cleaning, I discovered in the bottom of a drawer, a church pictorial directory which was about 6-year old. Glancing through it, I noticed that many once active families had dropped out and no longer attended. I began to wonder what would cause such a spiritual decline.