Pastor Sam Crabtree is Bethlehem's Executive Pastor and Lead Pastor for Life Training.
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Dec 9
Sam Crabtree
Last week a subcommittee of elders had supper with Al Mohler where he said, “Every day you live there are more things you are never going to do.”
At this stage of my life, I must admit I am never going to be on the high school debate team, play on...
Dec 8
Sam Crabtree
A mark of great writers is not how many words they use, but which ones (though there are other more important marks than word selection, like whether the heart glorifies God and the speech aims at loving the neighbor).
Brevity is a matter of what is...
Dec 7
Sam Crabtree
The mouth speaks out of the heart.
No conversation is benign.
The good person out of the good treasure of his heart produces good, and the evil person out of his evil treasure produces evil, for out of the abundance of the heart his mouth speaks.—...
Dec 6
Sam Crabtree
Converge Worldwide of the Baptist General Conference (BGC), the association of churches with which Bethlehem Baptist Church affiliates, has a goal of “at least” 351 new churches by the end of 2015.
The Minnesota Iowa Baptist Conference, the district...
Dec 3
Sam Crabtree
Good science is an essential activity of the Christian worshippers. We glorify God for what he is and what he does. We won’t glorify him for what he does if we don’t see what he does. The creation is all about what he does, recognizing his orderly...
Dec 2
Sam Crabtree
Now I commend you because you remember me in everything and maintain the traditions even as I delivered them to you.—1 Corinthians 11:2
Eleven observations:
Paul is commendatory. He commends. He is not only about correction and condemnation of...
Dec 1
Sam Crabtree
If anyone is inclined to be contentious, we have no such practice, nor do the churches of God. But in the following instructions I do not commend you, because when you come together it is not for the better but for the worse. For, in the first place...
Nov 30
Sam Crabtree
Sin is the anti-shalom; it breaks the peace, because it interferes with the way things are supposed to be.
Sin despoils its own agents, eventually causing the death of the soul.
Though sin is a universal calamity, it is not the absolute dictator...
Nov 29
Sam Crabtree
Most readers of this post can look up from their computers right now and see one or more books.
Many pastors and church leaders in various regions of the world have no resources with which to teach their flocks. At our last staff lunch, Bill Walsh...
Nov 24
Sam Crabtree
Last week a number of students and faculty from Bethlehem College and Seminary attended the Evangelical Theological Society annual meeting in Atlanta, where they heard Ed Welch make assertions including the following:
Depressed persons can take...
