Jesus, Redeemer of My Failures

All sports involve learning how to manage failure well. The baseball player walking up the plate tense, still consumed with the previous failed at-bat, will only ensure that he fails again. Baseball, and most sports,

Hope for a Hopeless Marriage

[The following is a guest post by Chad Lindon, Intern at Ashland Avenue Baptist Church] A Hopeless Beginning Sandy and I met in high school and became friends while she dated one of my friends.

Book Review: Family Worship by Don Whitney

[The following review was written by Casey McCall, Pastor of Students and Discipleship at Ashland Avenue Baptist Church] Whitney, Donald S. Family Worship. Wheaton: Crossway, 2016. Donald Whitney has earned a reputation as a first-rate

John Broadus on the Resurrection and Courageous Hope

The quote below is from an unpublished, handwritten manuscript by the great preaching professor and second President of The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, John Broadus (1827-1895).  The unfinished book was titled The Pauline System of

An Easter Meditation: A Resurrection Worldview

Resurrection is the Center of the Center  “For I delivered to you as of first importance what I also received: that Christ died for our sins in accordance with the Scriptures, that he was buried,

Reviewing a Classic: The Cross of Christ by John Stott

[The following review was written by Jon Canler, Outreach Coordinator at Ashland Avenue Baptist Church] Stott, John R. W. The Cross of Christ. Downer’s Grove: InterVarsity Press, 1986. 383 pp. “Easter people.” The Moravians, led

Andrew Fuller’s Case for Biblical Theology

The article printed below is one that Andrew Fuller (1754-1815) wrote for Evangelical Magazine; it was titled “Thoughts on the manner which divine truth is communicated in the Holy Scriptures.” In the article, Fuller explains