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Weighing in on faith and life.
B.H. Carroll faculty members, students, and those who support its mission desire to create dialog and stoke critical thinking about important topics which relate to faith and life in this world. Below are posts from diverse authors, whose views contribute to the ongoing discussion of these areas. The positions of the authors are their own and do not necessarily represent the views of B.H. Carroll Theological Seminary, its faculty, and its governors.
Voices from the Soteriological Margins: When We Fail to Live up to God’s Standards
But Samuel replied: “Does the Lord delight in burnt offerings and sacrifices as much as in obeying the Lord? To obey is better than sacrifice, and to heed is better than the fat of rams.” 1 Samuel 15:22 (NIV) 16 For you have no delight in...
Passing on the Word of God to the next generation
One of our family traditions at Thanksgiving is to pause before we eat to hear a family member read the 100th Psalm. I remember the day my father asked me to read the passage as my grandparents, aunts and uncles, cousins, parents and...
Small Groups: The Harvest is Abundant
The Parable of the Sower (Matthew 13:1-23) is about several themes: • How Jesus demonstrated teaching God’s Word. • How the Word germinates in each of us. • The kinds of persons who hear the Word. • The evil forces that rob us of God’s...
A Carroll Christmas Gift: Why I Support Carroll
Supporting the Compelling Vision of Carroll I give to Carroll of my time, talents, and financial resources because of the model, the mission, and the leadership. I see four incredible strengths of Carroll that make me most excited about...
Voices from the Soteriological Margins: God’s Requirements in Prophetic Perspective
6 “With what shall I come before the Lord, and bow myself before God on high? Shall I come before him with burnt offerings, with calves a year old? 7 Will the Lord be pleased with thousands of rams, with ten thousands of rivers...
A Carroll Christmas Gift: Join Us For the Carroll Week of Prayer 2016
Week of Prayer Join us Dec 12-16 in prayer for our faculty, administrators, students, and about God's provision for our school. https://bit.ly/Give2Carroll16 A Message From Dr. C. Gene Wilkes: From the beginning of B. H. Carroll God has...
A Carroll Christmas Gift
Christmas is here! For Christians around the world this is a season of giving. As followers of Jesus we give because our actions reflect God’s gift of love, his Son, Jesus. As you give gifts to demonstrate God’s love this Christmas, what...
Around the World this is a Season of Giving
Christmas is here!For Christians around the world this is a season of giving. As followers of Jesus we give because our actions reflect God’s gift of love, his Son, Jesus. As you give gifts to demonstrate God’s love this Christmas, what...
No Small Calling: Wrestling with Obscurity
For whatever reason, I've never really cared about being rich. I certainly like to have enough to pay the bills, and more is better than less, but money hasn't ever been a big motivator for me. I think a lot of pastors are like that (or...
Voices from the Soteriological Margins: Theology and Soteriology in the Old Testament
Why the Old Testament? So where should we begin our discussion of biblical soteriology? It isn’t a trivial question, for if there is one good thing that postmodernity has taught us, it is that where we begin will have a disproportionate...