Eric Black
Executive Director, Publisher and Editor at Baptist Standard
Who I am: constant learner / What I do: Executive Director, Publisher & Editor, Baptist Standard Publishing Company
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1 day ago |
baptiststandard.com | Eric Black
“What’s God’s will for my life?”I started a conversation with ChatGPT this weekend with this question. And I’m still unsettled by the exchange. I would be even more unsettled by the simple fact I had a “conversation” with an LLM—a large language model—if it weren’t for Siri and Alexa warming us up over the last decade-plus to such a strange thing.
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1 day ago |
baptiststandard.com | Eric Black
The scene is iconic, and if you’ve seen it, you’ll never forget it. Woodrow Call, Augustus McRae and their cowhands arrived in Ogallala, Neb., from Lonesome Dove in far South Texas. Some of the boys went into town for pleasures not available on the trail. Larry McMurtry tells the scene in vivid detail in his Pulitzer Prize-winning novel Lonesome Dove, which became the hit television miniseries. The cowboys were gathered in the street as Dish Boggett brushed his prized horse Sugar.
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2 days ago |
baptiststandard.com | Eric Black
I am grateful for my education at every level. If I were asked to list the most prominent influences in my life, I would list Jesus, my wife Debbie and the blessing of a broad education. I graduated from Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary during its heyday. However, my seminary experience did not prepare me for the realities of rural ministry. Unrealistic expectationsI left seminary with unrealistic expectations for myself.
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3 days ago |
baptiststandard.com | Eric Black
First and Second Timothy are pastoral epistles written by the Apostle Paul to his younger colleague Timothy, focusing on ministry leadership and church structure. Even though they traditionally are attributed to Paul, many scholars believe they were written by someone else after his death. Regardless, these letters have been of great value to church leaders, especially in offering guidance on confronting false teachings, appointing qualified leaders and clarifying the essence of the gospel.
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1 week ago |
baptiststandard.com | Eric Black
In many cultures, the stereotypical mom cooks more, cleans more, tends more to the needs of the family and home—even if she also works outside the home—than anyone else in the home. Notice the prepositional phrases. They matter. Many moms know more about everybody’s day, their wants, their likes, their needs, their schedules than anybody else in the home. Mom’s often balance and juggle more than anyone else in the home.
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