Wyoming Baptist Blog

DOMAIN Welcome to Week 7 of our devotional series on those common Christian beliefs that have been overlooked or misunderstood. This week we turn the page back a bit to the first chapter in the Bible — Genesis 1 — and ask a thorny question about the word “dominion.”...

BE FREE Welcome to Week 6 of our devotional series on those common Christian beliefs that have been overlooked or misunderstood. A professor at my seminary was famous for one day yelling at Jesus, asking him why he couldn’t have picked just one woman to be a disciple....

IT’S NOT O.K. Welcome to Week 5 of our devotional series on those common Christian beliefs that have been overlooked or misunderstood. As people of “faith,” we tend not to think too highly of what the Bible calls “lament.” Lament is that complaining, crying, whining,...

WISDOM Welcome to Week 4 of our devotional series on those common Christian beliefs that have been overlooked or misunderstood. Today, we’re going to take a look at one of the most well-known stories in the Bible — the story of Solomon’s Wish for Wisdom. In a world...

CHOSEN? Welcome to Week 3 of our devotional series on those common Christian beliefs that have been overlooked or misunderstood. Today, we’re looking at Genesis 12 and God’s call to Abram (“Abraham”). What does it mean to say that God calls some people but apparently...

LEFT BEHIND I think of music as a two-way street. It comes from our hearts, and at the same time, it changes our hearts. We might say that the songs and lyrics we sing are products of our contemporary mood, and yet they also influence that mood. The same sort of thing...

REMEMBERING WAR My nephew is a Marine. Right now, he’s working at an embassy providing protection to some of our foreign ambassadors. If you’ve watched the news lately, you’ll know that’s not the safest line of work, and I’m beyond proud of him for risking his life to...

A PENTECOSTAL SPIRIT Pentecost is all about the coming of the Holy Spirit into our midst and even into our very lives. Jesus says the Spirit will teach us and give us power to do the work that God has for us to do. But, where in the world is the Spirit? How do we even...