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Continue reading →: The Religious and the Spiritual
By Matt Sapp Fred Craddock quoted former Yale professor, Bill Muehl, when he taught his preaching students to “Remember, about half of your congregation almost didn’t come this morning.” It is a great reminder for those of us who stand in pulpits, but I wonder if he’s underestimated. I wonder if it’s…
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Continue reading →: The New Quest for the Historical Jesus
By Joe LaGuardia In the last two hundred years of biblical research, scholars have outlined various “quests” for the historical Jesus. Each quest accompanies new insights into historical records and artifacts that emphasize some never-before-understood facet about Jesus of Nazareth. The first quest, around the turn of the eighteenth century, applied…
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Continue reading →: Learn from the Italians: talk over one another!
By Joe LaGuardia In the South, it is considered rude to speak over another person. It is polite to listen and yield to your conversational partner. After all, Southerners are known to be humble, mannered folk. Not so for us Italians. While growing up around a table full of bread, wine,…
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Continue reading →: Balance political work with family time…
Curated. A recent article by Zach Dawes, Jr., asks whether we have turned a corner in a national conversation on balancing family and work… Rep. Paul Ryan (R-Wisconsin) made headlines when he told GOP House members that he would not sacrifice family time should he be elected as the next Speaker…
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Continue reading →: “His Majesty’s Palette”: A Sermon on Faith and Art
By Jackson Thomas Jackson Thomas preached this sermon, based on Isaiah 64 and Jeremiah 18, during Christival at Trinity Baptist Church, October 25, 2015. An audio version of the sermon may also be found online at Trinity’s website. Jackson Thomas serves as Youth Events Coordinator and Resident Artist at Trinity…
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Continue reading →: 4 Qualities of Worship as a Way of Life
By Matt Sapp This is the third article in a new message series at Heritage Baptist Fellowship, Canton, Georgia, that focuses on finding meaning in a chaotic world. For the next several weeks we’re spending our Wednesdays at Heritage Baptist Church asking questions about worship. What is worship? Why do we do what…
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Continue reading →: Titus: A Model of Joy-filled and Passionate Missions
By Joe LaGuardia You remember Titus, don’t you? He’s the one who has an epistle in the New Testament bearing his name? I didn’t remember him either. We rarely read about minor characters in the Bible such as Titus. When was the last time your pastor preached a sermon on him?…
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Continue reading →: Creeping Clover teaches us about the Truth of the Gospel
By Orrin Morris “Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.” The Apostle John quoted this statement when Jesus was confronted with a moral issue, a woman caught in adultery. The Hebrew Law dictated that she was to be stoned to death. Jesus used the occasion…
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Continue reading →: Nurturing a Future-Looking Faith
By Joe LaGuardia In his address to the U.S. Congress several weeks ago, Pope Francis noted that young people do not have a positive outlook for the future. “We live in a culture,” he said, “which pressures young people not to start a family, because they lack possibilities for the…
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Rev. Dr. Joe LaGuardia
Rev. Dr. Joe LaGuardia is a pastor, writer, and chaplain residing in Florida. He is author of three books and regular contributor to Smyth & Helwys’ Formations Series. His articles have appeared in USA Today, Baptist News Global, Christian Ethics Today, TCPalm, and Rockdale Citizen.
Baptist Spirituality explores the intersection of faith and culture incorporating biblical scholarship, culture and the arts, politics, science, and theology.
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