[This devotion is taken from last Sunday's sermon - Coty]
What task has God given you? What is the most important of all tasks?
Is your most important task to do something…
[In last Sunday’s sermon, we looked at Matthew 18:1-4 to see how Jesus speaks of humility, and to learn how we can balance the biblical injunctions to be ambitious for…
Does God want you to prosper? How can you go about answering that question?
Jeremiah 29:11 reads:
For I know the plans I have for you," declares the LORD, "plans to prosper…
1 Timothy 2:5 For there is one God, and there is one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus,
John 14:6 I am the way, and the truth,…
For the last several months, Danny Akin, President of Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary, has been advocating a "Great Commission Resurgence" in the Southern Baptist Convention. In his chapel address on April 16th (audio), Dr Akin laid out twelve axioms required for such a resurgence. Since then, SBC President Johnny Hunt has embraced this message, and modified the axioms somewhat, reducing them to ten, as available here.
In many ways, I am impressed with the Great Commission Resurgence document, and believe the SBC should move in the direction it lays out. Here are some of the axioms that clearly resonate with our theology, vision, and values:
1: We call upon all Southern Baptists to submit to the absolute Lordship of Jesus Christ in all things at the personal, local church, and denominational levels.
2: We call upon all Southern Baptists to make the gospel of Jesus Christ central in our lives, our churches, and our convention ministries.
(For a version of this devotion that is easier to print, see this link).
Ralph Winter died on Wednesday night, at the age of 84. I am confident that the Lord…