Author: morelander

Dr. Don Moore, retired executive director of the Arkansas Baptist State Convention, was recruited by the ABSC’s executive & administrative team in 2014 with the task of enlisting senior adults to pray for spiritual awakening. In an email to his constituency on April 22, Dr. Moore issued a call urging all pastors to preach on Biblical marriage on Sunday, April 26, and to lea...

People seem always to be fascinated with the thrill of sensation.  If that thrill can come in the form of spiritual sensation, it is even more gratifying.  Many today are compulsively drawn to the emotional high of mystical experience and the reality of angels tends to fall into that category.  What does the Bible teach about angelic presence?  Let's turn our thoughts to this c...

Dr. Howard Hendricks, of the Dallas Theological Seminary, has said, “A mist in the pulpit puts a fog in the pews.”  Something dreadful is happening in the pulpits of many churches across our land.  A compromise is crippling the commitment of many people who sit in church services each Sunday.  The erosion it is causing in the body of Christ is costly. Paul testified to the c...

Working jigsaw puzzles is an activity I have seen enjoyed by both toddlers and senior adults alike.  It seems we are never too young or too old to resist the attraction of finding the right pieces and placing them perfectly into place, thus completing a beautiful picture.  It is interesting to me how this popular past-time compares to world conditions that are aligning themselv...