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June 15, 2012  ·  Issue 12-115Follow ABP on Facebook and Twitter
TODAY'S TOP FEATURE 

Bill & Ryan Wilson

Bill and Ryan Wilson embrace at Ryan's ordination service in May.

 

Dads, sons share call to ministry

Sons who follow their dads into ministry say the experience is like a Father's Day gift in reverse. Unlike other seminary-trained ministers, they can draw on a lifetime of learning how to prepare sermons, visit the sick and handle church conflicts. [Read story]


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COMMENTARY                     
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Roger Lovette
We may hold up "Hi Mom" signs at ball games, but sit in a counseling room very long and the word father always bubbles to the surface. [Read commentary]
TALK WITH THE PREACHER -- by Amy Butler                    

Amy_buter_new_headshotForgetting the Bible

Moderate Baptists love the Bible, but fewer and fewer are taking the time to read it regularly, according to a study by the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship and Duke Divinity School Leadership Education. [Read column]

THINKING THEOLOGICALLY  -- by Molly T. Marshall                 

Molly MarshallPracticing theology

Just as a doctor cannot possibly know every nuance of a diagnosis, theologians must exercise humility in "practicing" theology. [Read column]


FEATURE 
FBC Knoxville, eviction help
Mary Cate Jones stands in the home she and her husband, Kenneth, built 56 years ago. (Knoxville News Sentinel photo by Michael Patrick)

Church aids widow facing eviction  

Mary Cate Jones never doubted her congregation would help when it learned she faced a foreclosure crisis last month. But raising $35,000 in the last two weeks of May and finding a donor to match the rest? [Read story] 
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WORTH REPEATING 
"There's nothing worse than going into the ministry to meet someone's expectations. If it's not a call, please say no, because that will wear off in about three weeks."
-- Bill Wilson on vocational ministry


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