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Adoniram Judson’s Marriage

On June 25, 1832, more than twenty years after embarking upon the missionary task in Burma, Adoniram Judson responded to a letter from the Foreign Missionary Association of the Hamilton Literary and Theological Institution, N. Y.  The questions initially asked related...

Adoniram Judson’s Conversion

This year we celebrate the 200th anniversary of the American Missionary enterprise. Adoniram Judson, at first a Congregationalist, but then a Baptist, rallied Americans to support foreign missions and helped establish the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign...

Get wisdom, get understanding

For many years, Sunesis, was a printed publication from Maranatha. Today it becomes a digital publication. It used to be published “occasionally.” It will still be published “occasionally,” only now it will be far more occasional. There is no schedule for publication,...

God’s Pressure Cooker, Pt.2

Purpose 1: Manifesting the Life of Christ Always bearing about in the body the dying of the Lord Jesus, that the life also of Jesus might be made manifest in our body. For we which live are always delivered unto death for Jesus’ sake, that the life also of Jesus might...

God’s Pressure Cooker, Pt.1

Practical Help from 2 Corinthians 4:7-18 As a child, I well remember the sound of a whistle blowing to indicate that dinner was almost ready. It was the release valve on one of my mom’s favorite cooking utensils, her pressure cooker. She used the cooker to prepare...

Gird Up Your Loins

As twenty-first century Christians we often are limited in our perceptions and interpretations of the Bible. We look at the Word of God through our own clouded lenses reflecting our personal backgrounds, education, language, and cultural biases. Without meaning to, we...

Discourse Analysis

Discourse analysis may sound like a phrase you’d prefer to bypass. It may rank up there with college Greek terms such as "syntactical analysis" or "periphrastic constructions." If you’re ready to skip to the next article, hold on! Discourse analysis is an important...

Follow David’s Example: Tell God

Principles from Psalm 35 for overcoming betrayal from those closest to you Nothing hurts as much as being betrayed—but when the betrayer is close to you, you’ve just compounded the situation. David knew all about this type of close betrayal. In fact, his experience of...

The Logic Of BRAPSIS

Dr. Richard Weeks, Maranatha’s first academic dean, was also an avid bibliophile and Baptist historian. Well educated, he pastored for several years in Chicago before going to Pillsbury and then Maranatha to teach Baptist Polity and Baptist History, among other...

Unlocking the Text: Part 3

Though everyone wants to know and believe "what the Bible really says," the realm of theology is stereotypically one of debate. Debate often occurs, not because we don’t want to know what the Bible says, but because we can’t agree on the meaning of a word. "Popular...

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