Family Ministry Today
The Center for Christian Family Ministry at The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary
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Get the Flash Player to see this player.- What Is the Problem with Current Church Structures?
What is the difficulty with how churches have been ministering to families? Watch this video from Randy Stinson, Timothy Paul Jones, and Jay Strother to find out.
— Sep 15
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- Among Your Company at Home, Part 4: The Challenge of Christian Training in the Middle Ages
- by C. Michael Wren, Jr. – Jan 24
One factor that influenced family discipleship during this period was the state of the clergy. Not all clergy during the medieval era served as pastors. In fact, large numbers of clergy had no ministry whatsoever among laypeople. Monasticism had grown in popularity throughout the Middle Ages, and many monks lived their lives [...]
- The Glory of Bench Warming: Fathers, Sons, Playing Time, and Leadership
- by David Prince – Jan 23
Something great happened this past basketball season for one of my sons.
He sat the bench.
You may be thinking that such news sounds more like a cause for depression than celebration—and at the beginning of the season, my middle-school son would have agreed with you. The truth is, I do not want him to want [...]
- Among Your Company at Home, Part 3: Family Discipleship in Medieval Theology
- by C. Michael Wren, Jr. – Jan 20
Augustine’s theological teachings greatly influenced the intellectual life of the church of the early and high Middle Ages. Whether the topic was the Trinity, [...]
- Among Your Company at Home: Family Discipleship in the Late Ancient and Medieval Homes – The Testimony of Augustine
- by C. Michael Wren, Jr. – Jan 19
By anyone’s reckoning, the North African pastor Augustine of Hippo was the single most important theologian in the minds of the medieval scholars. Prominent alongside the searching spiritual narrative of Augustine’s Confessions are his remarks about the influence of his mother Monica. According to Augustine’s testimony, Monica was reared by Christian parents with the [...]
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Dr. Randy Stinson
Dean of the School of Church Ministries
Dr. William Cutrer
C. Edwin Gheens Professor of Christian Ministry; Director, Gheens Center for Family Ministry