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Have you ever been to an Amish community? The first time I visited an Amish village it seemed as though I had stepped through a time portal into a world two centuries old. I watched people pass in a horse and buggy, observed white barns and quaint homes, and clothing that seemed to come from [...]

Would you say Christianity, at its heart, is a movement or an institution? I asked that question recently at a national conference of church leaders. I intended for my interrogative to be rhetorical, asking the hearers not to reply aloud. Without realizing it, these wonderful spiritual leaders of churches from across the eastern United States [...]

Student Ministry in the New Millennium
When 1999 began, who would have thought that the last year of the second millennium A.D. would be remembered as the year martyrdom came to the American church? Who could have imagined that these martyrs would not be high profile, mature leaders, but young people? When Cassie Bernall and Rachel [...]

Ministry to Students in the New Millennium
This article is taken from a lecture presented at Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary in Wake Forest, NC, on May 1, 2002. The article summarizes the book, “Raising the Bar.”
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In the eighteenth century God shook the American colonies in a revival movement [...]

Just the other day I heard a commercial advertising a major concert with the Village People and Cool and the Gang. Although I lost interest in pop music years ago, I found myself releasing the steering wheel to my truck and begin forming the letters as the commercial played the 70s tune Y-M-C-A.
Before I knew [...]