This Spring Union University Press released its latest book, Recognizing and Responding to the Messiah: Sermons on the Gospel of Mark, edited by Justin Wainscott and myself. For quite a few years, chapel services at Union have included a series through a book of the Bible. We call this our WORD series. This book contains …
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My poem of the week last week was a new baptism hymn written by one of my pastors, Justin Wainscott. We really do have a shortage of good baptism hymns, which is odd for Baptists, so I was delighted to see this new hymn from Justin, whose poems I have posted here before. It is …
This past Sunday many church celebrated Reformation Sunday as we near Reformation Day, Oct 31, the anniversary of the day Martin Luther posted his 95 theses to the church door in Wittenberg, sparking the Protestant Reformation. Justin Wainscott, pastor of First Baptist Church in Jackson, TN, passionately explained the importance of the Reformation in terms of …
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