by David Allen | Oct 11, 2014 | Culture, Featured, Scripture References
NOTE: This post is from my wife, Sherri, who has been fighting stage four cancer for three years. Read it carefully. You will be blessed. Friends, It’s so simple. “Jesus love me, this I know, for the Bible tells me so.” Yet, it’s life changing;...
by David Allen | Sep 1, 2014 | Culture, General
Paul White, co-author of Rising Above a Toxic Workplace with Gary Chapman and Harold Myra, has written a short piece entitled “Hidden Poisons in a Toxic Workplace.” It appears in Moody Publisher’s “Post-Sunday Newsletter for Church Leaders” —- For our book,...
by David Allen | Aug 11, 2014 | Bible, Culture, General
Rabbi Benjamin Blech’s article in the July 31 edition of the Wall Street Journal, “Destruction of the “Tomb of Jonah” in Mosul (Ancient Nineveh),” is worth your time to read. Blech is a Talmud Professor at Yeshiva University in New York. He laments the recent...
by David Allen | Jul 14, 2014 | Baptist, Culture, General, Preaching
Today I am in Scotland; land of clans, kilts, medieval castles, Robert the Bruce, Robert Burns, fresh water lochs (lakes), St. Andrew’s Links, haggis (the country’s most famous culinary dish made with the heart, liver, and lungs of a sheep and traditionally boiled in...
by David Allen | Jul 4, 2014 | Baptist, Culture, Theology
When you look up the term “religious liberty” in anybody’s dictionary, there you will find the collective picture of Baptists. The insistence on religious liberty by Baptists has resulted in misunderstanding, criticism and even persecution. In the past, governments...
by David Allen | Jun 16, 2014 | Culture, Pastoral Ministry
I’ve learned a new word this year: “selfie.” For those of you who may still be in the cultural dark on this one, a “selfie” is a self-portrait photograph, typically taken with a hand-held digital camera or camera phone held at arm’s length, and then shared on social...
