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Towers | February 2016
The Bible is clear: abortion is murder and needs to be stopped
Not only must Planned Parenthood be stopped, but all the murder of unborn human persons must also be stopped.
5 benefits of praying the Psalms
Praying the Bible means talking to God about what comes to mind as you read the Bible.
4 Keys to Preaching More Engaging Sermons
How long should a sermon be? As a preaching professor and a pastor, I’ve asked and been asked that question a hundred times. You can preach as long as you hold their attention.
I Just Arrived to Pastor a Dying Church… Now What?
The best approach for a pastor when entering a dysfunctional, dying congregation is to simply be a pastor to those people.
Merry Christmas should mean the end of racism
The birth of Christ was the decisive turning point in the salvation history, ushering in the multi-ethnic gospel community called the church.
An Unchanging Mission in a Changing World
Support Southern: Curtis Woods
For the Fall and Rising of Many in Israel
For the Fall and Rising of Many in Israel (Audio)
10 questions to ask for more Christ-centered Christmas parties
Many of us struggle to make conversation at Christmas gatherings, whether church events, work-related parties, neighborhood drop-ins, or annual family occasions. Sometimes our difficulty lies in having to chat with people we rarely see or have never met. At other times we simply don’t know what to say to those with whom we feel little…
The wonder awakens: The religious world of the Star Wars saga
When the next Star Wars movie comes out, go to a showing and talk to 20 people standing in line. You’ll hear 20 different stories about the first time they saw the movies — one a 12-year-old with his brother, another a 7-year-old at the cinema for the first time, another a ’90s kid watching…
Biblical echoes in Hollywood: A guide to watching movies Christianly
Media mogul John Sampey used vinyl, film to reduce seminary debt
When John R. Sampey was named president of Southern Seminary in 1929, he inherited a brand new Lexington Road campus with $992,000 in related debt (about $13 million in today’s money).1 Only a few months later, a stock market crash initiated the Great Depression. Fortunately for the seminary and the denomination, Sampey was a capable…
Servants with a badge: Campus Police brings experienced force to serve Southern Seminary
The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary sits nestled in the Crescent Hill neighborhood of Louisville. The large trees and beautiful homes gives the area surrounding Southern a warmth beyond its property lines. “If someone handed you a map of the city of Louisville and said to pick a great location to place Southern Seminary, you couldn’t…
Winning souls, not a culture war: Burk, Lambert on ministering to homosexuals
EDITOR’S NOTE: In what follows, Denny Burk, professor of biblical studies at Boyce College, and Heath Lambert, assistant professor of biblical counseling, discuss their new book, Transforming Homosexuality, with Towers writer Annie Corser. AC: Why did you pursue writing this book together? DB: My initial concern was driven by things I was seeing in evangelical Christianity, in which we…
Feature book review: ‘Transforming Homosexuality: What the Bible Says About Sexual Orientation and Change’
Transforming Homosexuality: What the Bible Says About Sexual Orientation and Change Denny Burk and Heath Lambert (P & R Publishing 2015, $9.99) The gospel ultimately demands a heart change from homosexuals, Boyce College professors Denny Burk and Heath Lambert write in their new book Transforming Homosexuality. Burk, a professor of biblical studies at Boyce, and Lambert, executive director…