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Crucial Qualities for Credible Leadership
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The Duty and Dangers of Change
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Announcement
Next year will be our 40th year of helping local churches prepare men for gospel ministry. God has been very kind to DBTS through these four decades of ministry. DBTS grads are serving all over the United States and advancing the gospel around the world. There are a...
Following Is a Stewardship Too
I spent the last two weeks teaching a leadership class for our seminary’s summer school program. It was challenging and encouraging to spend four hours a day looking at this subject with men involved in and preparing for vocational ministry in the church. My last post...
Leadership Is a Stewardship
The leadership of an institution is a stewardship entrusted by both God and men. I followed a man who shepherded this congregation for forty years. The same man was the founding president of DBTS. I serve a congregation with a clear set of doctrines and by-laws which...
Why the Silence?
“Take no part in the unfruitful works of darkness, but instead expose them” (Eph 5:11). We live in a world where too often we hear about the unfruitful works of darkness—the nightly news seems to thrive on ghastly stories of murders, rapes, and violence. Frankly, it...
When Silence is Consent
The tragic happenings associated with the arrest, guilty plea, and sentencing of Jack Schaap, former pastor of First Baptist Church of Hammond are a sad spectacle. Well before any of this blew up, I’d expressed my opposition to Schaap’s ministry and toward ministerial...
Equip and Encourage
For the first DBTS student body chapel of the Spring 2013 semester, a panel discussed the topic of missionary deputation. Specifically, they answered questions regarding the issues missionaries, churches, and church leaders ought to address regarding the process. For...
Specks and Beams
I had the privilege of preaching in seminary chapel yesterday. One of the great blessings of my current ministry is that I get to teach seminarians each week and preach in the chapel regularly. I often try to preach from texts of Scripture that I think will help shape...
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Dave Doran talks about his recent sermon series on contentment, specifically addressing why it is an important subject for the church to think through in our culture. Topics covered in the talk: 0:24 Reasons for preaching on the topic of contentment 1:57 Cultural...
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Dave Doran defines "worldliness" biblically and discusses the "in, but not of, the world" command. In a follow-up video, he talks about distinguishing between worldly and non-worldly issues in culture.
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Dave Doran talks about preaching from the book of Proverbs in light of his recent sermon series from the book. Check out the other video where Dave talks about applying principles from Proverbs to believers today.
What Makes Dispensational Premillenialism Unique?
MACP Roundtable 2012: Dave Doran, Michael Vlach (The Master's Seminary), and Neal Cushman (Northland International University) talk about the different kinds of premillennialism. Audio and notes from their 2012 MACP general sessions and workshops are available at the...
Equip and Encourage: MACP
Dave Doran talks about the Mid-America Conference on Preaching occurring next week at Detroit Baptist Theological Seminary. He provides a little history regarding the conference, explains the theme "The Mystery of Christ: God's Glory among the Gentiles," and...
The Mystery of Christ: God's Glory among the Gentiles
The relationship between the Old and New Testaments has been debated (sometimes hotly) since the book of Acts! This makes sense since so much hangs in the balance of properly understanding this issue—What role does the Law have in a NT believer's life? Is the Church a...
A Bad Trade?
Here’s the basic fallacy of the Elephant Room 2 storyline—once you’ve granted to someone good standing as a Christian brother and fellow servant of the gospel, you can’t claim that you’re going to be sitting down to discuss whether he is truly such or not. You’ve...
Artful Dodges
Personally, I think that Thabiti Anyabwile has provided some of the best commentary on the inclusion of T. D. Jakes into the Elephant Room discussion. His initial offering before the event was dead on target, and his follow up post is also worth reading. He continues...
Review Article – What Love Is This?
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Should Missionaries Skip Seminary?
God is graciously using DBTS to prepare His servants for global ministry. Through His help, we have graduates planting churches in a growing number of foreign fields. Most of these graduates are doing pioneer work in areas that are in desperate need of the gospel and...
Celebrity and Gospel Witness
American culture is fascinated with celebrities. American evangelicalism, as a subset of American culture, is too. For some reason, there remains a persistent belief that the public testimony of a well known athlete or entertainer will be more effective than that of a...
Equip and Encourage: Resolutions
Dave Doran talks about making (and keeping) resolutions at the outset of a new year. He addresses what the book of James says about resolutions and goals, centering on the balance between our diligence and reliance on God's sovereign control.
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E&E: Church Revitalization 4 from DBTS. Dave Doran talks about some faulty options for church revitalization in the 4th talk on the subject. 00:10 It is crucial that church leaders root members' hearts in the mission statement of the church 1:16 Surface changes...
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Dave Doran adds more ideas about church revitalization, providing specific details about how it should be done. 0:09 How a church should pursue revitalization: "leading by feeding." 1:40 Problem: people assume the purpose of the church, but aren't guided by a clear...
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Dave Doran continues his talk about church revitalization, describing the process of church decline and inept responses to it. 0:34 challenge of church revitalization in older, established churches 1:34 Trend of church health and decline: - Upward: Dream > Beliefs...
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E&E: Church Revitalization 1 from DBTS.