“Children are a blessing from the Lord not an interruption to our plans”.
Jason Allen, president of Midwestern Baptist Theological Seminary, shares some good insight for families with children and encourages pastors to “create a context where parents don’t feel like they’re interrupting the service if their kids are there,” I found this eleven minute conversation interesting and helpful. Let me know what you think.
Today, the Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission of the Southern Baptist Convention released this recent interview with Naghmeh Abedini, wife of US citizen and pastor, Saeed Abedini, imprisoned in Iran for Gospel related work.
I’m thankful to have this moment to remind you of the plight of Idaho pastor, Saeed Abedini.
Naghmeh provided the following brief statement:
As Christians we know that nothing is more powerful than the power of prayer. But as Christians we are also called to speak out and take action on injustices happening around us. My husband, Pastor Saeed Abedini, is an American citizen imprisoned illegally in Iran and being tortured and abused because of his Christian faith. He needs your prayers. Our family asks you to stand with us and contact your local government officials to voice your concern about pastor Saeed and Christian persecution around the world. In Hebrews 13:3 we are told to remember those in prison as if imprisoned with them.
Here is the full interview at erlc.com
Would you be willing to help me communicate with the Ethics and Religious Liberties Commission here to express gratitude for publishing this interview? Here are some ways to make contact…
Here it is… the debut episode of theBridgeCast.
For some time I’ve been planning to launch into this venture and have finally jumped in. Back in 1985 (wow that sounds like a long time ago) I was introduced to radio broadcasting through a friend, David Sparks. David was working at the college radio station and would invite me in upon occasion as a guest on his morning show. Eventually David talked me in to taking a shot at applying to work at the station and I was hired to fill a time slot that couldn’t hurt the station.
This online broadcast is quite different than those days at KWLD. I’m not required to have a license from the FCC to broadcast online (I still have my FCC license) I’m not introducing music, I’m not giving time and weather updates, or running public service announcements from the crash test dummies.
For now, theBridgCast is hosted here. The recording lacks in a few ways but the deadline I set on myself required me to go ahead and publish the broadcast as is. Without any further delay… here is theBridgeCast (tBC001)
Timeline and Links from tBC001 for reference:
tBC001 total length: 00:32:16
Download to mp3 HERE
:00:00 ~ Start/Intro
:00:30 ~ Welcome and Explanation
:03:19 ~ Scripture Reading (James 1:19-27) Hearing and Doing
:10:14 ~ Psalms, Hymns, and Spiritual Songs: Tell it to Jesus and Psalm 6
:14:01 ~ Church History: January 1873, Charles Spurgeon article “Acta Non Verba”
:26:42 ~ CALL TO ACTION LINKS:
:30:58 ~ Salutation and plans for January 13, 2014.
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