Stephen J. Wellum
John Calvin as Pastor
Editorial: The Urgent Need for a Theological Anthropology Today
Toward a Theology of Human Embodiment
Table of Contents (Spring 2009)
Any historical record of the founders of the Southern Baptist Convention, and The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, is incomplete without an honest telling of their complicity in American slavery and racism. For more on that story, read here.
Editorial: Celebrating God’s Faithfulness to Southern Seminary
Table of Contents (Winter 2008)
Editorial: “Biblical Theology”–Reflections on its Importance
Southern Seminary and Progressive Religion 1870-1940
Southern Seminary and the Reshaping of American Culture: Retrospect and Prospect
Lecture 1: The Necessity and Viability of Biblical Theology
Counseling and the heart of Christ
“What man of you, having a hundred sheep, if he has lost one of them does not leave the ninety-nine in the open country, and go after the one that is lost, until he finds it?” Luke 15:4 In Luke 15, the religious leaders were upset with Jesus. Some people who were messed up…
The tools your church needs for effective family ministry
How can your ministry equip parents with the resources they need? In the first place, help parents to see that if they are believers in Jesus Christ, God has already equipped them with his Spirit, his Word and the community of faith (John 16:12–14; Eph 4:11–16; 2 Tim 3:16–17; Heb. 13:21). Through these gifts from…
Raising future men and women
When our grandparents were raising our parents, popular culture was not as dramatically at odds with the biblical understandings of gender as it is now. The current cultural confusion over gender, however, requires parents to be highly intentional if they want to raise masculine sons and feminine daughters. There are no generic people. There…
5 reflections on church revitalization
In my early years of ministry I was involved in several church planting efforts. I had embraced the axiom, “It is easier to give birth than to raise the dead.” I still believe in church planting and am a passionate proponent of starting new churches. But if 80-85% of the churches in America are…
Practice true spirituality
In our quest for a more simple spirituality it’s important to define the term. I’m writing from the belief that spirituality is the pursuit of God and the things of God, through Jesus Christ, by the power of the Holy Spirit in accordance with God’s self-revelation (that is, the Bible). The words of the…
5 moves to integrate theology into your ministry
If you want a church to be saturated with truth, then stay there and walk through life with them.
Is this the end?: The quest for a global Islam and the hope of Christian eschatology
Led along the edge of a Libyan beach by Islamic State militants, 21 Egyptian Christians wearing the orange jumpsuits of prisoners received the white robes of martyrs. A gruesome video released in mid-February depicted their captors forcing the men to the ground and beheading them with swift, simultaneous strokes of the blade. The mass execution…