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Aug 28, 2024 | 
baptistcourier.com | Ray Van Neste
When our children were young, it was fairly common for the youngest child to delight in saying the blessing before meals. When our youngest, Timothy, was 4 years old he often eagerly asked to say the blessing. His prayers developed, of course, moving first from unintelligible to intelligible and then adding and substituting topics. At one point a new item began appearing in his prayers.
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May 20, 2024 | 
baptistpress.com | Chip Hutcheson |David Dawson |Ray Van Neste |Scott Barkley
Metadata:Topic(s): Cooperative ProgramFormat(s): Text ArticlesShare this post: LOUISVILLE, Ky. (BP) — Twenty Kentucky Baptists saw firsthand the benefit giving through the Cooperative Program has in the state when they participated in a Kentucky Baptist Convention four-stop CP Tour May 14.
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May 20, 2024 | 
baptistpress.com | David Dawson |Ray Van Neste |Brandon Porter |Scott Barkley
COLLIERVILLE, Tenn. (BP) – Cole Rogers said he picked up numerous new ideas during the 2024 Collegiate Leadership Summit. But Rogers, collegiate ministry specialist at Belmont University, said that wasn’t his biggest take-away from the three-day event.
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May 18, 2024 | 
fggam.org | Dewey Moede |Ray Van Neste
Baptist PressBy , posted May 17, 2024 in DiscipleshipDear Class of 2024,‘Tis the season for graduation addresses, and as a college professor for many years I’d like to share some thoughts with you (and others who might want to listen in). Our culture encourages you to laziness, and then, mocks and caricatures you as lazy. The truth is if you want a meaningful, worthwhile life, you must work hard. It is odd to me to hear the word lazy used in a positive, or at least neutral, sense.
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May 17, 2024 | 
baptistpress.com | Ray Van Neste |Brandon Porter |Tobin Perry |Scott Barkley
Metadata:Series: First PersonTopic(s): DiscipleshipFormat(s): Text ArticlesShare this post: Dear Class of 2024,‘Tis the season for graduation addresses, and as a college professor for many years I’d like to share some thoughts with you (and others who might want to listen in). Our culture encourages you to laziness, and then, mocks and caricatures you as lazy. The truth is if you want a meaningful, worthwhile life, you must work hard.
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May 17, 2024 | 
baptistpress.com | Chip Hutcheson |David Dawson |Ray Van Neste |Scott Barkley
Metadata:Format(s): Text ArticlesShare this post: As leaders we know there are many areas where we need to grow in our walk with Christ. Sometimes, as we multiply similar needs across a congregation, it can be hard to know where to start. What area of discipleship should we emphasize? Where can teaching, exhortation, and a congregational focus make the most difference?
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Jan 21, 2024 | 
crossway.org | Ray Van Neste |Thomas Schreiner |Benjamin L. Merkle |Brett McCracken
This article is part of the Tough Passages series. Listen to the PassageRead the Passage15Do not love the world or the things in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him. 16For all that is in the world— the desires of the flesh and the desires of the eyes and pride of life—is not from the Father but is from the world. 17And the world is passing away along with its desires, but whoever does the will of God abides forever.
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Dec 29, 2023 | 
touchstonemag.com | David Jeffrey |Ray Van Neste
We Were a Peculiar People Once: Confessions of an Old-Time Baptist by David Lyle JeffreyWhat if Mark Twain had been a committed Christian with deep theological awareness? Then he might have been David Lyle Jeffrey! Jeffrey’s new book, We Were a Peculiar People Once: Confessions of an Old-Time Baptist, is a gem. Rarely have I laughed so heartily and lamented so deeply in the same book. This book is part memoir, part prophetic call; uproariously funny, searchingly convicting.
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Jul 29, 2023 | 
theaquilareport.com | Ray Van Neste
Home/Biblical and Theological/Ready to Die for Souls Ready to Die for SoulsThe Missionary Drive of the ReformersWritten by Ray Van Neste |Saturday, July 29, 2023 The churches in Wittenberg and Geneva trained pastors, and sent them out to preach the gospel all over Europe, crossing national borders and risking their lives. Geneva has been described as a vast mission hub: as refugees poured in from across Europe, they were trained and then sent back out to preach the gospel.
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Jul 18, 2023 | 
desiringgod.org | Ray Van Neste
In March 1557, a group of Protestant French tradesmen landed on an island off the coast of Brazil, coming to be a part of a new French colony that needed more people, especially skilled workers. Along with this company were two Protestant ministers, Pierre Richier and Guillaume Chartier, who had been invited to teach the other Europeans and to evangelize the native people. This landing marked the first Protestant missionary enterprise to the New World.
