March 1, 2019

Baptist Catholicity, Congregational Worship, Liturgy, Creeds

How One Church Introduced Reading the Creeds

March 1, 2019

Baptist Catholicity, Congregational Worship, Liturgy, Creeds

How One Church Introduced Reading the Creeds

D. JEFFREY MOONEY AND ADRIAN MARTINEZ: Creeds provided a core set of beliefs for our congregation so that, regardless of the distinctions of other Christians around us, we could cling to these core elements and celebrate the fact that we were one family in Jesus.

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February 5, 2019

Creeds, Church History, Church Fathers, Theology

Creedal Eschatology

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February 5, 2019

Creeds, Church History, Church Fathers, Theology

DAYTON HARTMAN: The particulars of our eschatological convictions ought never contradict nor supersede the uniting Christian hope of Christ’s assured return and victory.

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January 30, 2019

Church Fathers, Biblical Interpretation, Church History, Creeds

Guard the Good Deposit: Understanding Retrieval

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January 30, 2019

Church Fathers, Biblical Interpretation, Church History, Creeds

Guard the Good Deposit: Understanding Retrieval

SHAWN J. WILHITE: Retrieval has a posture that transcends our modern sensibilities.

Matthew Emerson

January 15, 2019

Baptist Catholicity, Manifesto, Theology, Baptism

EBC Manifesto, Article XI: Principled Ecumenism

Matthew Emerson

January 15, 2019

Baptist Catholicity, Manifesto, Theology, Baptism

EBC Manifesto, Article XI: Principled Ecumenism

MATTHEW Y. EMERSON AND R. LUCAS STAMPS: We believe that all Christians should pray for and seek Christian unity across ecclesial and denominational lines and that Baptists should not reflexively reject principled, ecumenical dialogue with other Christian traditions.

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December 12, 2018

Christian Calendar, Congregational Worship, Liturgy

Why Baptists Can Follow the Church Calendar

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December 12, 2018

Christian Calendar, Congregational Worship, Liturgy

Why Baptists Can Follow the Church Calendar

MATTHEW WIREMAN: The Church Calendar provides anticipation and expectation and prepares our hearts every season as we wait and continue to wait for our redemption.

Matthew Emerson

December 4, 2018

Baptist Catholicity, Church History, Culture, Theology

A Baptist Contribution to Political Theology

Matthew Emerson

December 4, 2018

Baptist Catholicity, Church History, Culture, Theology

MATTHEW Y. EMERSON: Is there a Baptist contribution to political theology? Yes. And it should be called, “Baptist Prophetic Witness.”

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November 29, 2018

Congregational Worship, Liturgy, Christian Calendar

Why Baptists Can Follow the Lectionary

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November 29, 2018

Congregational Worship, Liturgy, Christian Calendar

MATTHEW WIREMAN: Because the Lectionary has us read from four passages of Scripture each Sunday, we see the value of poetry, history, prose, prophecy, and epistle.

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October 30, 2018

Liturgy, Philosophy

Reason within the Bounds of Liturgy

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October 30, 2018

Liturgy, Philosophy

MICHAEL MCEWEN: There are salient connections between Kant’s ideas and the spirit of our culture.

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October 25, 2018

Church Fathers, Church History, Congregational Worship, Liturgy

Recapturing a Love for Public Scripture Reading

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October 25, 2018

Church Fathers, Church History, Congregational Worship, Liturgy

Recapturing a Love for Public Scripture Reading

STEPHEN O. PRESLEY: If only for a few moments, it will unite the entire church in a communal act of listening and engaging the word of God.

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October 9, 2018

Congregational Worship, Liturgy, Lord's Supper, Theology

What Does Your Liturgy Celebrate?

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October 9, 2018

Congregational Worship, Liturgy, Lord's Supper, Theology

JOSHUA HEDGER: At our church, it is our desire that our liturgy would celebrate Jesus and his gospel from beginning to end.

Matthew Emerson

October 4, 2018

Church Fathers, Church History, Biblical Interpretation, Theology

Reading Proverbs 8 Like the Early Church

Matthew Emerson

October 4, 2018

Church Fathers, Church History, Biblical Interpretation, Theology

Reading Proverbs 8 Like the Early Church

MATTHEW Y. EMERSON: Proverbs 8 indicates how methodological commitments informed the early church’s exegesis of this particular text.

Matthew Emerson

September 25, 2018

Church Fathers, Church History, Biblical Interpretation, Theology

Reading the Bible Like the Early Church

Matthew Emerson

September 25, 2018

Church Fathers, Church History, Biblical Interpretation, Theology

MATTHEW Y. EMERSON: These three theological assumptions guided the way the early church read the Bible and formulated doctrine.

Brandon D. Smith

August 24, 2018

Baptist Catholicity, Theology

Catholicity Requires Dogmatic Humility

Brandon D. Smith

August 24, 2018

Baptist Catholicity, Theology

EMERSON, STAMPS, AND SMITH: Catholicity says, “You swim in a different stream of Christianity than me, but instead of cutting you off, I want to learn from you where I can.”

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July 23, 2018

Congregational Worship, Lord's Supper

Beyond a Memorialist-Lite Understanding of the Lord's Supper

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July 23, 2018

Congregational Worship, Lord's Supper

Beyond a Memorialist-Lite Understanding of the Lord's Supper

CHRIS BRUNO: Many Baptists don’t give much thought to what is actually going on when we come to the Lord’s Table.

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July 12, 2018

Congregational Worship, Liturgy

Singing Psalms in Baptist Worship

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July 12, 2018

Congregational Worship, Liturgy

JUSTIN WAINSCOTT: Most Christian traditions sing the psalms, and most Baptists did too up until the last century.

Matthew Emerson

June 26, 2018

Baptist Catholicity, Biblical Interpretation, Culture, Theology, Manifesto

EBC Manifesto, Article X: Creation and Redemption

Matthew Emerson

June 26, 2018

Baptist Catholicity, Biblical Interpretation, Culture, Theology, Manifesto

EBC Manifesto, Article X: Creation and Redemption

MATTHEW Y. EMERSON AND R. LUCAS STAMPS: We affirm the continuity of God’s works of creation and redemption. Therefore, we affirm the goodness of all honorable vocations, the importance of embodied habits and rituals, and the value of aesthetic beauty for Christian life and worship.